Nanchang Officers, Held Since March 29, Released in a Field Near Panshan Newchwang, Sept. 7.
Through the good offices of the chief of the Japanese gendarmerie, Capt." Obata, the long captivity of the three British officers of the Butterfield steamer Nanchang, who abducted by Chinese, pirat Starch 29, has ended. The captives, Nessa. A.D. Bluey cuifrd oka. fon, and W. E. Hargrave, were Seltased. today and have" safely arrived at. Panshan, De, officers were the victims of one of the most daring outrages in Ghinese waters,. They were "kid happed from the Nanchang Tikes. who. boarded the. vessel "road daylight as. she was enteric Newchwang harbour.
'A fourth man, FI. Pears, the! 'Third 'Engineer, was abducted to-ether with the otters; but he was ter released and sent back to New: chwang with the captors' demands for ransom—Reuter-
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