The Archive · 1935

GAOLED FOUR YEARS IN SINKIANG

Amazing Experience of Son of Swedish Missionary Peiping, Sept, 24.

Afler being detained for four years in Sinkieng, Mr. Gustav Soderbohm, ithe son of a well-known Swedish missionary in Kalgan, reached Pel-ping from Tihua this morning.

'Mr, Soderbohm, who is a brother lot Mr. George Soderbohm, of the [Sven Hedin Central Asiatic expedition, went to Sinkiang nearly five sars ago, driving one of the frst lears ever to make' the journey. Soon latter wards, he made another trip, fond, during the political changes then going on, he was told he could not leave, Since then he has been Last December, this detention, Jwhich had merely been refusal of Permission to leave, was changed to imprisonment in the gaol at Urumchi, recently, news reached Peiping that Me had been released from gaol and this was followed by a report that had been allowed to leave the

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