News has been received in Shanghai that Mr. Cook, a mission ary of the C. M. S. in West China, has been seized by robbers at place called Changkyiiin and carried off to the hills.
The C. M. S. Directory gives the name of the Rev. E. A. Cook at Chengtu, but there is as yet no information as to whether it is he who has been kidnapped.
With reference to the above fetter just received in Shanghad is port, the following extract from a of interest. The letter is dated August 2, and states Mr. Cock and Mr. and Mrs.
ward are supposed to be on the way somewhere beween Chingkiang and Chengtu, but the state of the country is such that it is diffi cult to find a road which can possibly be travelled on. I hope, how-in a few days to hear of their arrival at Chengtu. They are the first instance we have had of through booking from Shanghai."
The reference to the difficulties of the road might be to either floods or robbers, but the event shows that bandits were no doubt the cause of anxiety.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.