Show ARIS' ARIS oo RELEASE II l ree Captured by Chi Chi- Chiv Vv v nese hese nese Bandits Consul In In- Informs Informs forms State Department i 1 WASHINGTON Oct 5 G AP AP- AP Consul Consul Vincent at notified not not noti tIed fied the state department today that x d fi I a were were- being taken to obtain yle We e Release Jel ase of three American mis- mis f li cat captured b by Chinese barat ban ban- cUts at Mall van North Hunan September 23 55 Names and addresses of ot the mIs- mIs 1 reported by Consul Vinc Vin- Vin cent c nt are Katl Beck and Miss S c AWell J ya j eU of of the Reformed church ch Fifteenth and Race streets ts I and nd Miss Lydia Ldla of ot w tb Q E church 1903 Woodi Wood Wood- i i aVenue venue Cleveland O. O 1 EKING Oct I 5 AP There AP-There There l t i one fifty one foreigners In the be- be tr city of ot capital d province which the Kuo- Kuo Iu rn or national armies are ling against the attack of Gen- Gen r of the province the American legation at Peking i p to th the rival commanders i tire the foreigners among tS vom om are a number of American fj nd d 1 British missionaries j replied by telegraph express- express his desire to aid the marooned Americans A but stating that the city y Ii d fW Is occupied by by bandits His Ills 1 reference was to the units of or the who have occupied city and resisting attempts at atThe u The The The marooned foreigners In the besieged city were declared in ear- ear tier Her dispatches to be In a desperate plight being unable to leave the city and subjected to the rigors and deprivations ns of warfare Th The numb number number num num- b ber r of missionaries was pla plated placed n nt at t approximately thirty of which half hair W were re American AmerIc and a sImilar number number number num num- ber British At several l other places the lives of or foreigners among amons thorn church workers are reported Jeopardized jeopardized by b banditry warfare or both due to the unstable conditions condi condl- and the internal politico strife Oct 5 AP Doug Dou Doug Douglas las Jenkins American consul general Ken gen en- en eral at Canton has sent a letter to the forel foreign n minister of the Cantonese Cnn Cnn- onese government denying published published published pub pub- reports that a public speech was made in Canton Canto hv by the American American Amer Amer- ican lean minister to Peking John Van nn nnA A. A A MacMurray l during durIn his hII recent visit to tAe southern city Tire The consul consul con con- sul suI generals general's letter says say In view vie of ot statements recently alle that the American American Ameri Anteri- can can minister made a speech while in Canton It seems proper tor for meto me meto meto to Inform you Mr rac 1 MacMurray made madeno no speech of ot any sort on any subject sub- sub while he was In Canton nor did he authorize any public statement statement state state- ment of any sort O G Oct I 5 AD After Ar After cruising three days with a a pl pirate crew the Chinese steamer Fung Fungi arrived here tola today the pirates pIrates pIrates' having hayIng fled on on the tube approach clr of air air- I planes N Twenty steerage ass lg rs armed with with revolvers suddenly s sprang upon the officers of the vessel vessel vessel ves ves- sel and took charge They terrorized terrorIzed terrorized ter ter- Chinese passengers passengers voyaging voyaging voy voy- aging from Shanghai to foo and TI and forced the captain to steer teer the ship to Bias bay near which was reached this Silk valued at was landed landed landed land land- ed on the bay shore with wHir other cargo and a large quantity of the passengers passengers' belongings The steward steward stew stew- ard and a boy were carried off by bythe bythe y the pirates s. s |