Foreign News Notes, Aug. 31, 1925

At Shanghai 2,200 postal employes went on strike. First they demanded the ousting of foreigners who head the organization, later changed their demands to 100% increase in wages and other benefits.

Dr. Harvey J. Howard, American kidnapped by bandits in Manchuria (TIME, July 27) was located in a bandit camp. An emissary of General Feng, Chinese Christion soldier, went forth to negotiate for his release—saying it might take a month.

London received a report that eight British missionaries, including five women and Bishop H W K. Mowll, former dean of Wycliffe College, Toronto, had...

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