Peiping, May 26.
After a month in the hands of Chinese bandits, two German missionaries were rescued in Shantun on May 21 by a Japanese army w according to a belated report received here today.
The message gave the names of the rescued men as: the Rev, Fr. Augustus Hertzig, 40, and the Rev Fr. Emmanuel Handels, 4i Two Chinese who were kidnapped together with the German Catholic priests were also released The group was taken by the band from e Catholic Church at Nan-
Jingehen Another German missionary, whose name was not given in the dispatch, was said to have been kidnapped on May 17 at Shanchwang, north-east of Tsaoghwang.—Domei,
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