ENCOUNTER WITH BANDITS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 11

ENCOUNTER WITH BANDITS

News of an encounter with Jpandits is contained in a letter received at the Missions Office from Miss Ogilvie, in China, records the Outlook. Miss Ogilvie says that Mr Jansen and the party he was escorting from Kong Chuen to Sai Kwaan had a most disquieting encounter with a band of robbers. With Mr Jansen were Mrs Moore and her little daughter Margaret (the Rev. and Mrs George McNeur's daughter and granddaughter), and also a nurse belonging to the Methodist Mission. They were only a few hours from Kong Chuen Hospital, and still in country supposed to be under Japanese control, when a band of robbers appeared and robbed them of all their most valuable possessions —money, watches, glasses, fountain pens—but, fortunately, did them no nhysical harm. Later messages received at the hospital from Mr Jansen, from a place still in Chinese hands, relieved the fears of the staff as to their welfare. Miss Ogilvie also said that, after repeated applications to the British authorities in Hongkong she had at last received permission to remain at her post in Shatin, Hongkong, where the Shung Kei Bible Training School for women is situated. Previously, orders had been received by her tliat she must be evacuated from Hongkong territory.