Catholics Still Cooped Up in Funing Peking, July 19.
News of the escape of all British missionaries from the town of Funing, in Fukien, which is now being besieged by Communists, is contained in the latest advices received here from the south.
The despatches add that the missionaries have all arrived safely at Foochow.
Nothing is yet known of the fate! of the Roman Catholic priests and sisters still inside Funing, but their) lives are not considered to be 'n serious danger.
Meanwhile, the Fukien provincial authorities are continuing their energetic steps against the bandits, and the relief of the town is expected very soon—Reuter.
Funing (Siapu) is Fukien, 50 miles north-east of Santuao," and Jwhere Father Urbano Martin, a young Dontinican priest, was killed Fecently.
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