Mukden, Feb, 26.
'The Rev, Joseph Clarence Burns of the Maryknoll Fathers, is the eleventh. foreigner to be kidnapped in the South during the four years since the establishment of Munchoukuo, this number one escaped, two' were sent back bearing the. kidnappers' Memands, and the remaining seven Wore rescued unharmed. 'The official announcements usually state' that the Manchoukuo forees assisted by the Japanese have succeeded in effecting a rescue, in reality all available ser vices have ce-operated.
'An earlier report in Father Burns' case. discloses that Japanese Gen-@armes, Japanese Consular Police and Manchoukuo Police were cooperating in an encircling movement Soon as report was received of the probable whereabouts of the banally and their captives, But in each cise It was the Hsinping, or gendarmes, who were in charge of ce-ordinating the efforts of the rescue parties, and who actually recovered the captives, "The British Government recognized that fet by presenting special. graved, gold" watches "to Capt. Kawahita who rescued Mrs. Pawloy and Charles Cochrane, and to Capt, Obate, who was in charge of the case of the four Kkdnapped emeers from the s. Nanchang.
Despite tie fact that missionaries outnumber other Europeans in Manchoukuo, and that some of them are stationed in outlying small towne, only two of the eleven captured were missionaries, and in both cases they: wore decayed by appeals to come out to attend a native' in distress,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.