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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...
...trouble was, Captain Kawrahito found out when he reached the bandit camp, that Mrs. Pawley's kidnappers considered themselves unemployed and wanted steady jobs. As the first condition of ransom they demanded permission to enlist in the new Manchukuo Gendarmery. Second they demanded that the cash part of the ransom be paid in Chinese silver dollars, not in Japanese paper...
...opium that turned the trick, though Captain Kawahito also paid over 130,000 yen ($30,000) and strewed winter clothing right & left. Finally the Captain received custody of the two sick, bedraggled, utterly filthy whites. "They thought I was going to die," gasped Mrs. Pawley. "That was one of the reasons why they...
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...