Our Hankow Correspondent. not long ago sent us an Interesting account relating to the kidnapping of the Rev, Kung Tau-yun, a-well known Chinese pastor. This gentloman was the chief speaker a function held at the London sion Hospital at Wuchang on No ember 6. Mr. Kung told the story of his capture by bandits in the district of Hwangpei on " October 23, and of his remarkable escape from them five days later. The reverend gentleman was on a visit to his family home after recover ing under treatment by a native physician for anthrax. This is one of the few diseases for which western medicine has not yet discovered cure other than by surgical opera~ tion. The patient was over sixty years of age, and so was not fit for roughing it with bandits, Compelled to March Barefooted The audience, says the "Iainkow Herald," listened spellbound as the speaker described how he was taken in the middle of the night and compelled to walk barefooted for several niles with only a gown to cover his body, and was then confined Se-tween two armed bandits night and day. A ransom of $35,000 was demanded for his release, In' the meantime the people of his conation, and a very wide circle of offered, prayer to Almighty God for. his release. This came about suddenly on the Monday fo1- lowing his eaptare.
Tu broad daylight his guards slept, and the old' man, seizing the pistol lying on the ground, ran oat of the inner courtyard where he Was confined, and tried to get away. The door creaked 9 ionily, how: ever, that the bandits awoke and fell upon their prisoner to recover the pistol. The weapon was damaged and would not fire, but the oh man's grip was so strong that it ould not be wrested from him. managed with almost super-human strength to deliver a blow on the head of one of the young men, and owing to the loud cries for help, the other man. desisted and fle! Teaving the Pastor free to make his way to the village nearby where company of ed. although no charge against the bandits was laid either in Hwangpei or Hankow, yet in a short time three of the band were captured, one of whom was the wounded guard stunned by the blow from the pistol in the hand of aa old man of 60.
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