Two two German missionaries—E. Fischle and E. Walter—who were captured by bandits in the Kaying-chow district of Kuangtung in August of last year have arrived at} the Basel Mission, Hongkong.
They are both very weak as the result of their terrible experiences. For fifteen months they were kept close prisoners in the hills between Fungshug and Kay.ngchow, but during the last three months, when Government troops were sent out to effect their release, their hardships were increased ten-fold. 'The bandits, in order to escape the soldrs, kept continually on the move their captives, half-otaryed, fering from malaria, Larefooted, and underclad, were' forced to] march with them in all weathers.
Moreover, the leader of the bandits repeatedly threatened to shoot them the soldiers approached too close. time the two missionaries were chained together at the neck and the feet. Sometimes they] were confined in huts or in caves in the hills, but often they remained man employed by a magistrate at Fungshun, This middleman' bought over two of the guar's on the night of December 10 and they released their captives during the temporary absence of the third guard.
The rvissionaries, guided by their rescuer, ed from the robber camp] over the mountains to Pungshun, reaching their
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