Show Tense Situation I Ends As Bandits 1 Free Prisoners I June By 2 1 The Associated I Press News Press News today of the release of the eight I foreign captives remaining in the mountain I stronghold of the Shantung bandits promised to relieve the tense atmosphere enveloping Chinas China's foreign re- re relations relations re relations lations since May 6 when the Shanghai Peking express train was derailed near Suchow and the passengers made prisoner The score or more foreigners first token ken into hills diminish dimInish- diminished ed gradually as the bandits re- re released released re released leased them one or two at a time bOle until only tho eight were held The eight were the final hostages Je- Je de detained tamed until the Chinese govern govern- government government ment mont should have hove fulfilled the tho last lor I of the s demands The ban ban- banI ban bandits I I ilLs did not ask osk for money but their principal condition was s 5 that they be enrolled in the tho regular arm The representatives of or the I Peking go government O began bogan muster muster- musterIng mustering mustering ing In Ii the tho bandits more than a av Vee ago I roun A S 'S FlUE rREE Th The foreigners released 1 to- to today today to today day included four Americans Ma- Ma MaI Major Major Ma Major I jor Roland W wr ringer linger U S 8 A ordnance corps Manila home I Berkeley Calif Leon Friedman or of orI I Chicago and John B l Powell Shanghai newspaper pub pub- publisher usher lisher Lee Solomon Shanghai ag- ag ag agent cot ent for tor a San Francisco o firmi firm Orm i There were two t 0 British I red red Ellis Ell Shanghai broker and Reginald W no laU of Birmingham Birmingham ham England and ono one Fren hman Emile mlle COil and one Italian G K D Musso Shanghai lamer law cr t an and 1 ad Iser to the tho Chi Chi- Chinese Chi Chinese nese nose government go While the diplomatic corps did dd not Interfere with the measures take by the Peking government go It stood ready to help hep and sent to an InternatIonal Intel national com corn commissIon commission mission headed beaded by Brigadier Gen Ceo General Oen-eral Oen eral W V D El Connor USA U S A to In e all phases of banditry in 11 Shantung province The com coin commIssIon commission mission still Is on the ground Roy noy Anderson an American with Ith lon bon I experience In Chinese affairs as the principal int between I Ithe the bandits and tho the Chinese gov gOV- gOVernment gov- gov government eminent Although h his capacity w os as unofficial he was trusted Im lot lot- Implicitly by both sides aides and guaran guaran- guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed teed to the bandits that the nose nee government would carry out Its promises A large number of Chinese cap cap- captives captives tives remained on moun moun- mountain mountain tam tain lt t latest a advices for their release were proceeding I I I I ho however ever J EMERGENCY Y ENDS V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON June 12 lIe Re lese Rt lease today of the Americans and other foreign captives held by Chi CM Chinese nose nese bandits bandit brings to an nn end the emergency which has Kept the cip dip corps corp in Poking Peking busy since the raid in which the tho captures wOre were made almost to the exclusion of the deepe question of preventing fu- fu futuro futuro turo fu-turo turo outrages outrage of or the same samo charac charac- character character ter Thero There I is iq every Indication here ho hoever ho ever that tho the attention of or the I Washington ton gO government and of other powers whose whoso nationals were i of or the bandits bandit will now I turn to to at such an on un- un un understanding with the Chinese gov- gov gov government eminent as na will Insure the safety ot of foreigners In China hereafter |