Higher Terms Asked for Hayman and Bosshardt Peiping, Aug. 23.
Hopes that Messrs. A. Hayman and Bosshardt, the two British missionaries captured by bandits last October, would regain their freedom by the end of August have received an eleventh-hour setback. Messengers who went into the camp of their captors some days ago, to conclude negotiations for their liberation, and arrange an exchange of money for the prisoners, have returned with bad the news.
The messengers declare that the atliude of the bandits has hardened. They have refused to accept the sum previously agreed upon and are demanding a very much higher amount.
Meanwhile, the Reds of whom the captors form apart are advancing. fon Changteh, one of the principal towns in North Hunan, 105 miles rectly northwest of Changsha, the provincial capital—Reuter.
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