Lower Terms Asked for Their Release Peiping, Sept. 25.
New negotiations have been opened for the release of Messrs. A. Hayman and R. Bosshard, the two mis-Slonaries captured last October. in Kweichow by bandits under the leadership of the notorious Ho Lung. They are being held captive in northwest Hunan, and hopes for their early release, which were blasted When negotiations were broken off by the bandits at the end of August, have been revived.
'The bandits, it is stated, are demanding a high ransom' for the liberation of their prisoners than was first agreed during the early part of last August's negotiations, but. the amount they are willing to accept is much smaller than the excessive demand made when the parley was broken off—Reuter.
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