Evening star., 1923-05-10
CHINESE BANDITS
To RELEASE ALL
AMERICANS TODAY
Advices Indicate italian, Re-
garded as ''VaIuable,"
Will Be Only One Held.
2 SONS OF AMERICAN
ARMY MEN NOW FREE
Women Among Captives-Miss
Aldrich in Hospital-Probe
Ordered.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, May 10.-All foreign
capttves held by the Shantung baniits
are being released. except Chevalier
MusSo, the Italian attorney, accord
ing to u message from Tsaochwang,
signed by a relief agent named Naill
and addressed to the Asia Develop
meut Company.
Success in the negotiations to ran
som the foreigners held captive by
Chinese bandits in the mountain fast
nesses of Shantung was indicated to-
day Thursday when a dispatch from
Peking announced the release of
Roland Pinger, jr., and Robert Allen.
jr., sons of MajS. Pinger and Allen.
L. S. 4. The officers. however, still
were held at latest official advices
this afternoon.
a private message from Tsaocha-
wang, received in Shanghai by the
Asia Development Company. reported
Chevalier Musso. an Italian attorney
of Shanghai. also was held. A pre-
vious report had said that the bri-
600. 900 and that he was critically ILL.,
The bandits were believed to consider
the chevalier their most valuable"
prisoner.
Advices received in Tsinanfu indi-
Gated that the CaptiveS would be re-
leased today.
Two Women Held.
Latest reports from Peking indicat-
ed that at least two women were
among the captives-Mrs. Sanderson.
an American. and Miss E. F. Fleming,
English. Previous statements that
Mrs. q. A. Seaton of Berkeley, Calf,
and her niece, Miss Lillian Aud of
Eugene, Ore, We're held were dissi
pated today when it was learned in
Peking that they were not aboard the
Shanghai-Peking express train when
it was seized near Suchow early Sun
day.
Miss Lucy Aldrich. sister-in-law of
John d. Rocke feller. jr, and her COM
panion, Miss Minnie McFadden, ar
rived in Picking. early today. having
Dr. Houghton of the Union Medical
College. Miss Aldrich and Miss Nc
Fadden were put into an ambulance
and taken to a hospital. where physi-
u.
Under this advice they declined to re-
late their experiences while in the
hands of the bandits.
They were led away by the bandits,
separated and each held for twenty
four hours. They met at Tsinanfu,
exhausted and i'll from shock and ex-
posure.
Probe Is Ordered.
The Chinese government has pro-
mulgated a presidential mandate or
dering Investigations into the affairs
Of the civil and military governors of
Shantung province. The government
also instructed these executives yes
terday to strain every effort to pro-
cure the release of the captives.
Another phase of the situation be-
ing discussed today in the Chinese
capital was the theory, said to be ac-
cepted freely in political circles, that
the bandit outrage was the outcome
of larger plot than one of ordinary
brigandage. The idea of aggression
against foreigners was not mentioned,
but the supposed conspiracy was held
TO have internal political significance
The effect of the affair on one politi-
cal party or another was emphasized.
Relief parties, with supplies and
medical aid, were rushed from for
eign agencies in various cities to the
locality dominated by the bandits.