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Show MISSIONARIES IN HANDS OF bab eio PEKING. Nov. 7. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press. " Eight foreigners, five of them missionaries, now are In the hands of bandits in the Province of llona n. The latest victims Include Mistress Boderstrom and her daughter, who were captured at Shangtsaishlen, according ac-cording o a correspondent writing at Kalfeng. under dab' f November . They are members of the China inland mission. From the Augustana Synod. Missionaries Fosberg and Lundeen were seized n October 13. There are frequent communications from the captive families. The prisoners pris-oners write that th an- well treated, even given the opportunity to preach thdr gos-pel to their captors. In this instance the purpose of the bandits Is believed to be to enforce demands upon local authorities rather than to exact ransom Genera Feng Vu-llsinng. "the Christian governor" of Ilonan. has been demoted to the lesser post of military Inspector of army headquarters headquar-ters at Nanyeng. outside of Peking. The Hunan tuchanate. or military gov- ernorshlp has been abolished. |