Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-10-08
OF IN ERES TO
SCANDINAIvIANS
Recent Happenings IN This
Country and Abroad.

HELD BY CHINESE BANDITS
Eight Norwegian-Ameriean Lutheran
Missionaries Reported Prisoners.
Seventy Mormon Preachers Actively
Engaged In Proselytino in Sweden 1t
Present-RemarkabIe Woman Died
Recently in Copenhagen.
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Eight Lutheran missionaries, who
are Observation-Disclosures, are report
ed to be held in captivity by bandits
In Tsaoyang, China, information to
this effect coming through cable dis
patches to Wahpeton, N. D., where the
aforementioned missionaries attended
Lutheran college and seminary. 1t
is believed by Norwegian.American
church officials that when further de.
tails are obtained the list of captured
will be increased to nine and possibly
ten. Three of those believed to be
captured only recently made their es'
cape from Chinese bandits after hav.
ing been made prisoners and carried
away to the mountain camp of the
brigands. and, in a thrilling flight, all
three were stabbed and severely
wounded. Those believed to be held
prisoners by the bandits are Rev. and
Mrs. George Holm, Rev. and Mrs. H
Fauske, Rev. and Mrs. E. .Aandahl,
Rev. and Mrs. NJ. Wordahl, the latter
formerly Miss Marie Harstadt, and
Miss Ida Sather. Mrs. Reinholdt Kilen,
widow Of Rev. Reinholdt Kilen, who
died recently, visited friends in
Wahpeton, N. D., several months ago,
the papers state, and later sailed for
China. 1t is believed that she reached
the mission at Tsaoyang and is among
those captured, increasing the number
to ten. Some time ago, it has been
learned through letters to frineds,
she expressed grave fears that the
conditions in Tsaoyang and surround
ing districts were such that the mis-
sionaries were in great danger at all
times. Despite the efforts OF her
friends to persuade her to remain In
America she returned to her mission
| work. Another cablegram was re-
ceived at Wahpeton, the seat of the
Lutheran college, the other day, stat
ing that the Tsaoyang mission had
been looted by bandits and eight for
eigners carried Off. This is believed to
be the missionaries previously men,
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More than 1000 Norwegian-Ameri-
cans of the Twin Cities and from Min
nesota and the Dakotas are planning
to leave next spring for Norway to at
tend the celebration marking the Gen.
tennial anniversary of the granting of
Independent constitutional govern
ment to Norway. The principal
celebration of most interest to the
| Norwegians of America will be that at
Trondhjem, May II, the Norwegian
Day of independence" At that-time
the ancient cathedral of Trondhjem,
which has for years and years been
undergoing thorough restoration,
will be presented to the country as a
tribute from the Norwegian-Americ
The raising of funds for this purpose
has been in charge of the Norwegian
American Midegave committee, which
has had representatives in all parts
of America obtaining subscrip.
tons. A steamship will be chartered
and special trains will carry the WISH
tors from St. Paul to New York and
other trains will be ready for them in
Norway.
The friendly and rather intimate re.
lations which have existed between
Norway and England for many years
have been recognized everywhere, but
now it is commencing to look as X
the activity of the German kaiser in
Norway and. the frequent visits of
German warships to Norwegian wa
ters may bring about an estrange-
ment between England and Norway.
A writer in one of the principal Brit
ish papers brings this possibility
strongly to the front.
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| Sylvia Pankhurst, the world famous
London suffragette leader, is at. pres.
ent in Christiania to rest up after long
confinement in prison. She is natural
~ an object of much attention and
curious people make very strenuous
efforts to get view of her whenever
she appears in public. Some Of the
prominent suffrage leaders of Norway
have called on her and she finds Nor.
way most agreeable country to rest
in after her severe experience at home.
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