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...dirty job of bargaining with Chinese bandits for the lives of British Mrs. Kenneth Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran, who calls her "Tinko," fell last week to Captain Kawahito of the Japanese Gendarmery...
...Corkran explained that he and Mrs. Pawley had been out for a horseback ride when bandits swooped upon them. For 44 days they lived in filth & fear less than 40 miles from Mrs. Pawley's home at Newchang, southern Manchukuo. When brought home last week "Tinko" (Mrs. Pawley) was tucked into a bed at Newchang Mission Hospital where her father, Dr. Phillips, diagnosed her condition as "feverish and fatigued from a severe cold...
...Were you tortured?" newshawks asked Mr. Corkran...
Announced the British Consul General, "I have sent a messenger and later I have even sent a second messenger, urging the bandits to send a competent agent to expedite our negotiations for the liberation of Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran. It appears that heavy rains have delayed the return of the messengers and the arrival of the intermediary...
Came no intermediary but a letter from the bandits breathing purest Chinese patriotism. "We will return Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran free" they wrote "on condition that Japan first returns Manchuria to China, otherwise we demand a ransom of $1,000,000 gold...