The Nationalist Agency, News issues the following:
"Reports concerning the alleged, mutiny of Nationalist forces in neighbourhood of Changteh in Hunan: Province are scouted in military cir cles here. The facts are that some roving bands of ex-soldiers in the region have been rounded up by the forces of General Tang Song-chi and! disarmed, It has been proved that, these roving soldier-bands have been, responsible for many recent outrages Jagainst missions in Northern Hunan, "In this connexion it is reported that steps are being taken by the jonalist Government, through the focal authorities involved, to secure the release of two Catholic priests lof the Kienkiang district in We Tt is understood that a enquiry wilt be instituted: into. tha affair, after which a mandate will: be promulgated holding the local thorities personally responsible for the peace and order of their dis Fathers MacDonald and O'Connell rave been released and have arrived Jat Hankow, Father MacDonald is suffering from knife-wounds and lacerations in the head and shoulder,
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