Peiping, May 20.
After a month in the hands of Chinese bandits, two German missionaries were rescued in Shantung, Jon May 21 by n Japanese army unit, according {0 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, 41.
Two Chinese who were kidnapped jtoyether with the German Catholic priests were also released, The group, was taken by the band from. the Catholic Church at Nan-
Another German missionary, whose name was not given in the dispatch, was said to have been kidnapped May 17 at Shanchwang, north-east of
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