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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 227, 25 September 1928, Page 7

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N.Z. Anglican Missionary In China. miss TOBnrs fate. (Australian Press Aun—United Serrlec) LONDON, September 24. Miss Blanche Tobin has been taken prisoner by Chinese bandite between Canton and Kwei-lin. She is a New Zealander, and went to China under the auspices of the New Zealand Anglican Mission. Recently she was on furlough in New Zealand. Apparently Miss Tobin was captured when she was going to her station at Kwei-lin. Miss Blanche Tobin, before entering mission work in foreign fields, was engaged in teaching in native schools in New Zealand, and, with her parents, who followed the same occupation, she was engaged at Tauranga. She first visited China in 1923, and was stationed in the Kwei-lin district, about 280 miles northwest of Canton. Owing to the dangerous conditions in the interior of the country arising from the civil war, missionaries were ordered to leave their stations, and Miss Tobin returned to New Zealand, but not before she had to make a hazardous journey on foot through dangerous territory. She reached the Dominion last October, but on hostilities between the warring factions of the Chinese ceasing she returned to her post last month.