Late Gen. Huang Hsing's Son Seized in Shansi London, Sept, 20.
Tremendous admiration for the pluck of Mrs. Muriel Pawley has been aroused throughout Britain by the publication in London to-day of a letter smuggled through from the "aap tive "woman to her father, in ich she pleads, "Please get us out of this hell incarnate," yet simultaneously asks for a powder-puff and some lipstick.
Mrs. Pawley's mother-in-law, interviewed by the "Daily Mail," paid 8 glowing tribute to her daughter-in-law's spirit, She said that the letter was the first news which had in any way "brightened the awful burden." It gave her reason to hope, she added, that things might not be so bad as they seemed, by "What magnificent pluck," she exclaimed.
"Hell incarnate," she calls it, "yet she can ask for lipstick."
Intense concern has been aroused throughout Great Britain, "Every possible step is being taken and has been taken since"the pair were captured," is the only statement hitherto vouchsafed in official British quarters.
The "Daily Express," which is Lord Beaverbrook's organ, has open-€d a campaign with the object"of
publicity on everybody concerned in bringing pressure to bear through the matter, The newspaper telegraphed to Changchun, the Manchukuo capital, yesterday, urging that every effort should be put forth to free the captives unharmed, Manchukuo Foreign Minister, Mr. Hsieh Chieh-shih, replied at considerable length, expressing much regret for the affair having involved subjects of Great Britain "with which country Manchukuo is desmons of promoting friendly relations" and giving assurances that efforts for rescue are being continued vigorously.
The Foreign Minister of the new State concludes his message by saying: "The Government is determined to clear the country of bandits completely with the aid of Japanese military forces as soon as the kaoliang has been harvested, thereby ensuring safety to everybody within the State."
The "Daily Mail," in commenting on the matter, says that the incident clearly shows that Japan's firm hand is required to deal with the chaos in Manchuria. It looks as if the Japanese Government would exert promptly its well-known energy to rescue the British subjects imperilled and incidentally to warn the brigands that the slightest injury to either prisoner would bring exemplary punishment upon the whole gang.—Reuter,
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