Shanghai, Aug. 27.
Reuter's Agency is informed that the Franciscan Procuration has received telegram from Ichang state ing that Father Tiburce Cloodts, a native of Antwerp who has been in China for about seven years, has been murdered. officers, all Japanese, and 26 Chinese sailors. Leaving the ship to her fate, the pirates took the hostages to Hsinghua at 3 pam. on the 19th fond under an aesumed name of Tinghohsing demanded of the Chingkees by wire a ransom for the: stages. The firm is now conferring a8 to how to recover the hostages.
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