Mission Treasurer Hankow, Nov. 27.
'A telegram received here. to-day told of the capture of Mrs. Oscar Hellestadt, originally from South' Dakota and the wife of the treasurer} of the Lutheran United Mission, by bandits who made a raid on the Hellestadt home at, Sinyeh, on' the Honan-Hupehs. border.
Mr. Hellestadt, originally from Scandinavia: and later Wisconsin and who came to. China 20 years ago, now in-Hankow. It is. his belief that the outlaws are soldiers who recently mutinied.
The American Gonsal-General here is taking up the matter with the Foreign Afairs Commissioner here," who will deal with the-provineial authorities -at "Kaifeng United Press.
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