The Archive · 1929

Revolting Circumstances

Sept. 26, Further details of the murders of [Bishop Trudo Jans, Father Rupertus and Father Bruno at' Siaoyang, in West Hupeh, on September 9, reveal that the Franciscans met their death in particularly revolting eireum-Their bodies had been ings of 10, who lingered for several hours, must have horrible in the Franciscan Mission at Ichang has not been able to recover the bodies, as the district is still infested with "Spirit Soldiers," a fanatical society similar to the Red Spears of ina Tt will be recalled that the mutg. these "Spirit Soldiers."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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