The Archive · 1937

Kidnap Ten Monks

Peiping, Sept. 1.

Remnants of the Chinese 29th Army, fleeing Peiping, stopped long enough late last Monday afternoon at Heishanhou, a village at the foot of Wanshowshan, on the western outskirts of the old capital, to attack a French monastery and kidnap ten monks, Japanese military officials revealed here to-day.

A detachment of Japanese troops was immediately rushed to the monastery where they found three monks, one injured and the other two confined to their beds because of ill-

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