Show RANSOM US IS PLEA OF ONE CAPTIVE Maj Major or Pinger Sends Note Urging Compliance With Dem Demands BOYS ARE RELEASED I They Say Two Women Still Are In Brigands Clutches TIE TSIN May a 12 By By The Associated Press Payment Pre s Payment of ransom or compliance with lIh hat ahat eer Cr other terms th the Chinese train bandits of oC tile the Sh Shantung hills might demand for tho tile n of oe their for for- for lor foreign eign captives seemed today moro more than e eer ever er the only feasible move In view of the letter urging sucha such a L course received d here tram fram Major Finger Pinger one of ot the two American army officers who ho were taken to the outlaws stronghold l with lIh the other passengers of ot the Peking Shanghai Peking express train after atler It was asa derailed near Such Suchow ow last Sunda Not t only was ass tile the letter leller from Major Finger Pinger dispatched here from Irom the bandits retreat t tOda today but th the oung son on of 01 MAJor Finger Finger- Pinger I Roland Holand Jr was nas also alio Ho He came tn in company with another ho bo boy Robert nobert Allen Jr the son ton of Major Allen the other American officer held for tor ii ransom t lung S VRE un r The two lads clad In Chinese clothing apparently wore ere In good i 1 condition when ahen hen returned to their very cry Cry anxious mothers The I mothers who ho were 01 oa the train but were not taken into the hills hill byI bythe by I tIme the bandits had remained here hero I word ord ord of ot their Imperiled I families The boss OOs bo were wre enthusiastic attic I 0 over oer er the adventure and said ald lie bandits ha had l taken quite a fanc I to them seeing teeing that they thy suffered no ill HP I Tho The Pinger and Allen Alien bols bo s Ie-I Ie ie- ie le pouted two Iwo women omen omen sUIi In tho the hands of the outlaw band They i were vere unable to identify the but from their descriptions it Is that on one Is Senora Sonora Manuel Ancira Verea cren wife of a prominent Mexican who ho also li ii held Sonora enora I Yela was reported to have refused to leave leate her hr husband when allen tlc the I bandits offered to release her with witha a a number of 01 other foreign women I There is no surmise here as a to the Identity of ot the other oilier woman men men- mentioned mentioned mentioned by the tho boys boy The Tho boys added that both bolh of the tho foreign loreign women omen were ere at the bandits headquarters headquarter and nd were ere In e dress s U H D D J 1 I iI It was as reported here that the tile had refused to 10 treat with the commander of 01 the th Chinese I troops surrounding the mountaIns cauto I because of a blood Mood enmity between hIm himA him anil on the tho bandit chief oc- oc occasioned oc when the Ibe commander exe executed a broth brother of th chief Negotiations howe however or cr were saId to be proceeding haltingly b tween tx the and a Kl lu general and It Is believed ed here that If it the troops are arc withdrawn the capt es will III be freed treed soon I Chines Chinese prisoner said they recognized among the leaders I of 01 the bandits former offIcers officer o-f o er C GenerAl Chang Yao who ho was governor of 01 o the province pro of ot Hunan tn in 1920 when hn Reverend W mV n It Helmert an all American missionary was as murdered by Hunan troops At that time the American J legation Se- Se demanded de demanded mantled that Chang be held sIble Ot DS vs DS 01 or 01 B 13 flITS One Ono of the tile conditions said ald to tD haie ha been laid down don bv by the ban wn- ban bandits Sits diU t li is the restoration of or their for for- former for former mer moor status as regular soldier They are described to 10 have MC wrecked t th the express train oj as ii a last resort re ort when Ih lacy y were pressed pre hOIl hotly by troops It Is estimated that there areS are S 8 OO within a 11 radius ot of W I to LO mites miles guarding the cap cap- cap Ues thea arc are entrenched over oser i ten tun- tun tunneled on top of ot a 11 mountain They arc admirably situated to re me- me rc list a siege It 11 1 i reported from I that Uiese hese brigands are aru live five miles I from Irom with Ith resources resource In close communication InI I Ing earch-Ing A Standard Oil compary s search search- lug 1110 party parly has not vet et ct the r famIly jewels which were ere hidden In Ina ina Ina a shoe hoe ho b bi Miss Lucy Luey Aldrich sister InI I In law laa la of or John 1 I Rockefeller Jr when she ahe ws wa-s 48 taken laken from the train tram 00 oo I I I I I |