Evening star., 1934-12-14
BABY FOUND ALIVE.
IN CHINA SLAY|NGS.
STAN Infant. in Hands of
s. Missionary on Way to
So Wuhu Quarters.
nv tha Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, December 14-A re-
port from Tsingteh said tonight that
little Helen Priscilla STAN, 3-month-
old daughter of the murdered Ameri-
can missionaries, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.
STAN, had been found alive and was
being taken to Wuhu, mission head
quarters.
The report of the finding of the baby
was relayed here from Wuhu.
Wuhu reported that Rev. Mr.. George
Birch of Canada member of the
China Inland Mission and stationed
near Tsingteh, had the infant and was
carrying it to safety. There was no
indication as to the health of the child.
Whatever the babys condition, 1t
Is assured of the best medical atten-
ton, for the entire staff of the Amer
lean Methodist Episcopal Foreign
Board Mission Hospital at Wuhu,
under direction of DR.. Robert Brown,
awaits the child's arrival. 1t came
into the world at that hospital Sep
tember IL by a caesarian operation.
Rescue Method Not Told.
It was not Immediately indicated
how the rescue had been made. al
though it was known that govern
ment troops were in pursuit Of the
bandits who raided the city Of Using
teh, murdered the baby's parents and,
presumably, kidnapped the child.
The bodies of the young STAINS were
found deserted on a battlefield is
miles from Tsingteh, but no trace OF
the baby has been discovered.
Other missionaries in three south
ern provinces are reported to be evac-
uating their stations.
A letter written by STAN shortly be-
fore his death disclosed that he and
his family were held for ransom Of
10000 Chinese silver dollars (about
$1,000.
STAN was a native Of Paterson
N j., while his wife, the daughter oi
missionaries. was born in China.
Kofields Reported Safe.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Kofield of Bend
Greg, reported to have disappeared at
about the time the STAINS were alb
Quoted, are safe, telegram to the
China Inland Mission said. They are
at Tunki until conditions have set
tied.
Under instructions from Washing
ton, Peiping dispatch said, Clarence
Gauss, charge d'affaires of the Amer
ican Legation, made further repre-
sentations to Marking and Anhwei
provincial authorities. He urged re-
neWed efforts to rescue the STAN baby
and arrest the culprits.
A spokesman for the foreign office
of the national government said the
kidnapers of the couple were ''mur-
derers and bandits" and not Chinese
Communists. as was once reported.
Catholic missionaries at Tsingteh
escaped capture through being absent
from their post.
Soon after the outlaws fed toward
Western China, troops Of the Chinese
Nationalist government appeared ir
Tsingteh in hot pursuit. Detach-
ments have been moving through
Anhwei Province steadily during tbs
last two days, bound for the isolated
sections beyond where they hope tc
round up and destroy the rowing
bands. s...-F
Missionaries In Flight.
Missionaries in Southern and West
ern Human and Kweichow and South
eastern Szechuen Provinces were re-
ported fleeing from similar terroristic
outlaws.
Among them were Miss Justine
Granner of Hubbard, Iowa, and Miss
Anna Renninger of Reading, Pa, bott
evangelical church missionaries.
Foreign missionaries from Eastern
Kweichow who sought refuge II
Changsha, Human Province. reported
that their associates. whom they lef
behind, also were planning to move tt
safer areas.
A letter written by STAN shortly be-
fore his death was received by P. w
Gibbs, director of the China Inlant
Mission. 1t announced briefly tha