Local Forces Kill Several of His Kidnappers Peiping, Mar. 4 The young German geological student named Hildebrandt and: his six Chinese assistants, who were kidnapped at a small Chinese coal mine in the hills outside Peiping two days ago, were released to-day 30 miles from Peiping.
During the fight between the captors and a body of the "People's Self-Protection Corps," which effec-ied the release, several of the kidnappers were killed.
"Mr. Hildebrandt, who was formerly an exchange student at the Tsinghua University, was taken captive by Chinese Communist guerillas 20 miles west of Peiping.
"He and his assistants had been given permission by the Japanese authorities to visit the region in which he was kidnapped by a band of 250 guerillas armed with rifles and machine guns, Chinese police, employed by the Japanese, were unsuccessful in attacking the kidnappers, who fed into the heart of the hills taking their victims with them—Reuter,
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