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Show " or V ' K A STATE DEPARTMENT ORDERS RELEASE OF CAPTURED ABB Dr. A. L. Shelton of Kansas Held By Bandits on Out-" Out-" laws Instructions ORIENTAL OUTLAW HAS BAND OF 5,000 i Preacher's Wife and Two Daughters Arrive At Place of Friends PEKING, Wednesday, Jan. 7. (By The Associated Press) Dr. A. L. Shelton, Shel-ton, a Christian missionary, was cap-! tured by bandits atLaoyakuan, near! j Yunnan-Fo, on January ?,, and is being (held for ransom, according to reports received here. His wife and two daughters, who havo arrived at Yunnan-Fu, say the kidnappers acted under orders of Yang Tien Fu, a notorious outlaw, who has been operating with 5,000 followers, In j tho Kochin mountains. It is said tho i object of lawless acts has been' to I discredit the local governor : for re-! re-! fusing to accept the terms of surrender laid down by tho band, '"Treated as Guests The bandits slated they would treat I their prisoners as a guest unless the military was employed to effect his release. Yang Tien Fu is reported to have been educated as a military officer offi-cer in Japan. Officials of the American legation here and Chinese authorities are investigating inves-tigating the case. Story of Capture A message from Cincinnati Sunday night gave the first information of the ) capture of Dr. Shelton. It was announced an-nounced there that the Foreign Christian Chris-tian Missionary society, a Disciples I church organization for which Dr. ! Shelton had for twenty years been a I missionary in China and Tibet, had been informed by the state department of the capture, tho department adding that it had demanded immediate action. ac-tion. j Dr. Shelton, who formerly resided at Anthony, Kan., was stationed at Batang, province of Szechuan, near the Tibetan border. Tho point where he :was captured is in Yunnan province, which borders Szechuan on the south. |