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...Martin, British Consul at Foochow, sailed up the Min River last week with $50,000 in a satchel and a sharp note for one Lu Sing-pan, bandit chief. Earlier in the week the Misses Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Harrison, members of the British Church Missionary Society, were fleeing from the district of Changsha, which was captured and looted fortnight ago by bandit-Communist troops (TIME...
Near Chungan their boat was boarded by bandits. A few days later a note was received at Foochow from Lu Sing-pan. For the release of Missionaries Harrison & Nettleton he wanted 50,000 Chinese dollars ($17,000). To show his good faith he enclosed Miss Nettleton's little finger...
Unnecessary delay would mean the loss of other parts of Miss Nettleton. The Church Missionary Society in London cabled Consul Martin at Foochow to pay the ranson instanter...
Members of his staff professed themselves as mystified as any necromancer's audience, began a frantic search of Foochow and vicinity...
...days later at Nantai, ten miles from Foochow, a telegrapher started back pop-eyed when asked to send the following message...