'The response to the appeals to the Japanese authorities after Father Burns was captured was prompt and omeient. An. ameer' with five gendarmes and an interpreter, thirty belle and 30 Japanese soldiers were Immediately despatched in pursuit of the kidnappers. A later report from Tunghua explains that when word was received that the bandits had been reported about twelve miles southeast of Tunghua, Lieut. Shibata with 35 Japanese soldiers, 'Sergeant Maeda with eight Japanese consular police, and twenty Manchoukuo paties fon' three trucks started from the north, while twenty soldiers civilian clothes led by three gendarmes came in from the west, and from the southeast, police instructor Hirano with Manchoukuo police closed in towards the spot. When a cordon has been thrown around the bandits retreat it Is intended to Aeavour to open negotiations for the release of the American prisoner.
The latest report to hand is already abe days old which is accounted for by the diMeulty of communicating with that distant corner of the ry and more particularly because of the extremely dimMeult terrain, Hills 4,000 foot high, trackless forests and deep snow make the progress of the rescue parties toilsome and slow. The {ask 1s In very competent hands and the Consular authorities express the highest satisfaction with the con= tinuous and ardous efforts which are being made by the gendarmes. aad the forces under their control has taken an active part in all activi-lies of the Mukden Club, The latest to arrive ere Mr. and ars. Parkinson and their small Jdaughter. 'The Parkinsons' are no [strangers to Mukden, having been here about eight years ago. Mr, Parkinson comes to take charge of the Chi Tung Tobacco Ca. Mr. K. C. Ramsden of the Chi Tung Tobscco Ca, with his life and their charming Nittie" daughter Diana are another {family of old residents who are teaving us for the south, but it understood that Mukden will be able to welcome them back before the year is out.
This year the steadily dwindling American community did not hold a dance on Washington's Birthday as their predecessors had done for the past fifteen years or more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.