Death of Bishop and Father at Hands of Bandits Peking, March 1.
The Italian Legation, in a statement to Reuter's this morning, say that news reached the Legation on Thursday of the capture by brigands, in the Yingtak district of Kuan ting, of Bishop Versiglia and Father Caravario. Twenty-four hours later another telegram from Hongkong announced that the Bishop and Father Caravario had een put to death immediately their captors.
'While awaiting further confirmation of the tragic news, the Italian Minister has addressed' note the Chinese Government and has informed the Foreign Office in Rome of the tragedy.—Reuter, How it Occurred Hongkong, March 1.
Messages received from Shiuchow, in northern Kwangtung, state that op Versiglia, Father Caravario anil three Chinese Sisters, who were captured by brigands on the 27th, have been murdered in the mountains by their captors.
The party was attacked, while! travelling on the North River, by 4 band of ruffians, who attempted to kidnap the Sisters. Bishop Versiglin and Father Carvario offered 'a stern resistance to the desperadoes but were seized, beaten, and made prisoners. The brigands then burned the boat in which the party were travelling and carried the Bishop, Father Caravario, and the Sisters Off into the neighbouring mountains. Father Cavada and. Father Lareno, as soon as they heard the news, made all haste into the region with view to opening negotiations for the release of the prisoners, but they arrived too Into, They found only five bodies, riddled with bullets, which they removed to the newtest town for burial,
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