Hankow, Feb. 5.
Somewhere in the icy _slushe covered wilderness of. northwest Hupeh, barefoot and without cloths ing' extept for trousers and undgfe shirts, the Rev, Fathers F, "Mac: donald and Patrick O'Connell, mei bera of the St, Columban's Missi are being dragged into the' inter! by 2,000 of the Farmers" Union, 'Their small church, which is in, a village 160 miles up the river Han, from Hankow, was completely dedtroyed on the morning of cee, 29, The Fathiers were' robbed stabbed and beaten while church was burning and they were then disrobed and marched off bare. foot in mid-winter weather, The have not been heard of since, Fr, Macdonald is Scottish and, 45 years of age, Father O'Connell; is Irish and 40 years of age, The Nationalist Foreign Office been appealed to and promised thay the captives would be at once rex' leased, but ce far no action hag been taken
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