Show CHINESE BRIGANDS J S AGREE GREE A TO RELEASE SOME OF CAPTIVES PEKIN KI May 14 By A. A P. P P.-A P. A confer conference nce Saturday night between representatives of ot the tho railway ban ban- and the the- Pekin government re result re- re sult suIted d in agreement by the brigands brigands' to release some Bome of or their captives immediately and to tree ree the re re- re when their terms terms ing the withdrawal of or the troops- troops were complied d with the ministry of or communications announced yesterday yester yester- day Th The American French and ItalIan ItalIan Ital Ital- ian legations have received d word from their respective consuls now at that the bandit chief early Saturday Saturday- Informed the officIals off off- dais of or his Intention of killing kUling every captive captive J In two days 1 if his terms were not not- met AGED PRIEST VISITS LAIR OF BANDITS SI SHANGHAI May 14 By A. A P P. Max Max Friedman whose brother Leon Fri Friedman is one of the foreIgn foreign foreign for for- eign captives held la itt the Shantung hills by Chinese bandits received today a pathetic letter from Father William an aged German priest of of of who went alone into the wild mountain country to visit the bandit stronghold stronghold strong strong- hold and aid the prisoners T The e letter was dispatched late Saturday when th the tho priest evidently was bear exhaustion He closed the letter by saying more I cannot cannot cannot can can- not write now sick Will wm write again when see leaders He H He had described his feverish journey journe day and night t tp tt climb to a brigand village on a mountainside mountain mountain- side with a a. population of 2000 But ut he Ile found the village deserted until midnight when returning of the band informed him that bandit bandit ban ban- dit leaders leader would see him Sunday morning at 8 CommunIcation tion between the villagers and bandits ban ban- tilts higher on the mountain had been exchanged been d by signal lights Father Frith r Lenfers belongs to the Mission 1 Order of ot th the Divine Word whose American Amedean headquarters are area areat areat a at at- T III IlL 1 I BANDIT VICTIM I I 5 C V fr Robert A. A Allen whO is b believed by oy w war wr r d department officials to be bethe bethe bethe the Major RobertA RobrtA A Allen captured b Chinese br-Chinese bandits Allen was Allen was a aI lieutenant when this photo was I taken in 1918 1913 |