CLERGYMAN CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9158, 4 August 1908, Page 3

CLERGYMAN CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS.

EXCLTING ADVENTURE IN PEKU.

The Rev. Arthur Miles Moss, who rerently gave up his position as Precentor of Norwich Cathedral to take up the work of chanlain at Lima, has sent Home a thrilling account of his capture by brigands in a lonely mountainous district of Peru. He was travelling trom Oroya to Lima, when the train.in which he ■Wis a passenger was stopped at Galera, 15.000 feet up in the mountains, by an armed brigand band. The fullest precautions were taken by the bandits to put the passengers completely in their power. The railway officials were all either in the pav of th« brigands, or too frightened iorasiat. The telegraph wires had bse.i cut, and the bridges communi■eacing with the nearest town were blown up. There were fifteen soldiers in the train, but they all gave up their arms when ordered to do so by the brigands except one, who was shot dead on the*spot. Mr Moss, with Mr Newman, the ■seamen's missioner at Callao, and sixfriends, were all taken prisoners, and Ud to the robbers' mountain retreat. Their absence, however, caused the Peruvian Government to send troops from Lima in search of them, and ■the'v were at length released.