Reported Kidnapping Denied by Japanese Spokesman Shanghai, Feb, 9.
All eight foreigners residing in Hwaiyuan, town on. the northern bunk of the Hwai River approximately 25 kilometres west of Pengpu, are alive and well, a Japanese Army spokesman announced last night, The report that Miss Helen Bough-on, American missionary, had been kidnapped was "without foundation,"
Seven Americans, comprising one man and one woman missionary, three teachers, one woman doctor Jand one nurse, had remained in the town in addition to one Italian. missionary, presumed to be a priest, the spokesman said, "All are well' and fare being looked after by the Japan-jose Army," he declared, The small foreign colony, he added, had informed Japanese officials. tu: vestigating the report of Muss Bough. ton's kidnapping that none of their croup was missing.
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