Show CHINA BANDITS RELEASE 50 SONS JS OF ARMY MENS MEN I S Success in N. N Negotiations to Ransome Prisoners Held Captive by Band Indicated in Reports WASHINGTON May May 10 By U. U P. P China P.-China China has stopped punitive measures against the Shantung bandits bandits ban ban- and andis is attempting to obtain re release release release re- re lease of Americans and other the foreign foreign for for- eign peaceful means to prevent injury to to the captives the state department was was was' officially advised advised advised ad ad- today I B By t the Associated Press pres Success In n the negotiations to toran ran ransom om the f foreigners r held captive by Chinese bandits in the mountain moun moun- tam tain fastnesses fastnesses S1 of Shantung was In Indicated indicated Ih- Ih in- in di today wh t a i dispatch p t h from tile of Pekin announced the release Rola Roland PInger Jr and d Robert Allen I Jr sons of ot Major Pinger and Al Allen Al- Al I At len U. U S. S A. A The officers were still h held ld at latet latest advices rices I t this ir afternoon A private message from Tsao- Tsao chwang re received In Sh Shanghai by bythe bythe bythe the Asia Asa Development t company re reported reported reported re- re ported t that t all aU but one of the f foreign forel for for- or- or el eign captives had been released Theone Tho The one still held was held was said to be Chevalier Chevalier Cheva Cheva- lier Musso J an Italian n attorney of Shang Shanghai al A A previous report h had d sai said that the he brigands were holding holding hold hold- ing Musso for and find that h he was cri critically n ill l' l The Tue pi bandits w were re believed belier to consider th the ch cheva chevalier va- va lier lieI their most ost valuable e prisoner Advices received In in In Indicated th that t the captives would be released today CAPTIVES FACE DANGER B Before f re the dispatches reporting the surrender of the captives be began began began e be- gan coming comin In fn the outlook u was gloomy Early In the day It was learned In fn Shanghai that J. J B B. Powell POwe an American newspaper newspaper- I I 1 1 I I man man one of the prisoners had con to have smuggled out a message message mes nies- sage sage saying th the foreigners faced dire consequences unless the troops surrounding the bandit strongholds were with withdrawn rawn Latest reports from pekin ekin Indicated Indi that at least two women women were re among the captives captives Mrs Sanderson Sander Sander- son IRon an American and Miss E. E F. F Fleming En English Previous statements statements state state- ments that Mrs I I. I. I A. A Seaton of Berkeley Berkele Cal and h her r ce Miss Lillian Auld of Eugene Ore were held were dissipated today wb n nIt It was as learned In that they were not aboard the Shanghai i ex express express ex- ex press train when It was sei seised near Suchow earl early Sunday Miss Lucy Aldrich sister law of John D. D Rockefeller Jr and nd her companion Miss Miss Minnie Minnie arrived in Pekin early earh toda today having hang been accompanied from by D Dr Houghton nf of th the Union Medical college Miss and Miss McFadden l put Wet wei put Into an ambulance and taken to a a- hospital where physicians prescribed several eral da days s of ot qu quiet t. t Un Under this thi 9 they declined to rc relate theIr ther experiences expert expert- while in fn the hands or trio tao bar bartlits HELD 24 HOURS They were WE're led le-d away by the bandits bandits ban ban- te arnt 1 and ad each finch held for tour twenty hours hour They met at nt nu e exhausted haust d and ill III from l shock hock and exposure The Chinese s government has promulgated promulgated pro pro- K a p-e p presidential mand mandate ordering ordering ordering or or- dering Investigators in Into th the af affaIrs affairs at- at fairs of the civil chon and ancl military gov gov- ernora of s pro Ince The rho government al also o instructed these thes executives yesterday t to 1 every ery effort to procure the re release of or the captives v S Another phase of the ing discussed today In the Chinese capital was wn the tte said to be accepted freel freely in p pOlitical circles circles that the tile bandit outrage o was the outcome of or a larger lar er plot than one ot of ordinary brigandage The idea of of aggression n against foreigners was not mentioned but the supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed conspiracy was held to have internal political significance T The Te effect of the affair on one political t party or another was U It was p pointed out that the that the Suchow Suchow Su- Su I chow bandits bandl s seemed to have hare the 0 semblance of ot an organization They were said too to be domInated by byan byan byan an element which was waa displeased with the recent sucres successes E es S of tho the party part In the valley aIle The party Is sponsor for the present government Jo In P Pa- Pa kin This was the ett effect ct of the abductions ab nb ta to- to embarrass embarras the government government govern govern- ment in its foreign relations was was floU d especially specially In considering a motive aside from robbery robber Relief Belief parties 9 with supplies and nd medical aid were rushed front from foreign foreign for for- eign agencies In fn various cities to the locality dominated the by ban ban- Fear for the condition of the I captives was waa as s starred b by a message from v yesterday esterday that they were almost almot dead from lack of I food and clothing and from ex ex- |