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...them kneel in long rows while down each row tramped a government executioner with a great, broad sword. Swish, swish, swish, 1,800 heads fell. General Ho, as he fled, dropped like hot cakes Miss Esther Nordlund, 34 (and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50), missionaries (TIME, May 4). They reached Hankow safely last week, gave the first account of little-known, muchdreaded General...
Next day the rebels claimed that War Minister Ho Yingching had joined them. He did not deny it. From Hankow he telegraphed to President Chiang with brutal frankness that 28,000 government troops in Kiangsi had just deserted to the Communists. Ordinarily such bad news would be kept secret...
...Also kidnapped last October near Loshan in Honan Province was Rev. Kristofer N. Tvedt, a St. Paul Minn. Lutheran missionary, recently ransomed (TIME, April 27). He reached Hankow last week where his wife and six children have been frantic with anxiety for half a year. Broken in health, looking 20 years older and horribly dirty, Mr. Tvedt said...
...Spot. Few large Chinese cities have remained long in Red hands, even on the sore spot. Troops loyal to President Chiang Kai-shek police it, operating from Hankow, with somewhat less success than U. S. Marines have had in Nicaragua...
...Ransom values of U. S. missionaries to Chinese bandits fluctuate widely. Thus the Lutheran Mission at Hankow paid $2,350 plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...