Foochow, Dec, 10.
Early in October of this year, a rumour reached Miss Bois and Miss 'Thomas, two missionaries of the: Church' Missionary Society stationed, in Klenyang, away up the Min River, above Yenping, in the province Fukien, that it-was known. where the remains of the two ladies. Miss Harrison and Miss Nettleton, who Wore murdered by Communists 1030, had "been, buried.
'Miss Bois and Miss 'Thomas immediately "wrote to Bishop John Hind in. Foochow, asking for sanction to try and follow up this rumour, and this was readily granted, 'An..old Chinese eolpérteur who Jaiew' the martyred ladies well. was asked (0 make investigations quietly, His first enquiries led to nothing. He then went up to the East of Chungan, which is'9 day's' journey beyond ienyang—the place from which Miss Harrison and Miss Nettle. {on tried to escape In 1030, when they were caught, held for three months, and then killed-—and from there he: made his way into the mountainous country where it was believed that the ladies wore murdered, and atler considerable dimeulty, reached. the tiny village away up'In the hilis—where they were held captive.
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