Vatican City, June 4.
was learn here yesterday that Father Etienne Joerg of the Bethleem Society for Foreign 'Missions, attached to the Mongudatum' mission in the apostoli fecal prefecture of Tsitsihar, was taken prisoner and murdered by bandits, Tt will be recalled that the head "of the Mission, Father Eugene Imhof, was slain by bandits on January 18, 1994—
Haves. the Governor looked down on his cream-coloured establishment standing on a hill he could hardly sit' still, and he pointed out the colony of herons in the trees nearby and everything else he could recognize. But what impressed him most was how easy it was to cover hundreds of miles of his province that would fake many weeks by the usual means of peregrination, to say nothing of fashions of hardship.
"The observations made by the Generalissimo caused him to cut his stay in Yunnan short, and he set off for Szechuen on Tuesday, May 21, vit Kweiyang, where he stayed but tone night to confer with the new officials there.
The Generalissimo was planning to travel down the railway from Yunnan to the Indo-China border to have a look of this famous scenic me, but the rapid movement of the Reds prohibited that. It is a pity, for he intended to go and see the Kiaochi tin mines, where labour conditions are said to be abominable, fand where child labour is exploited toa tremendous extent. In a speech made to the students and educ tionalists on Sunday the Generallssimo made direct reference to it, and urged that the Government of the Province take early steps to abolish domestic slavery, the use of child labour (in the mines, he particulary meant), and the growing of poppy and the use of opium.
Yunnan has a fine programme in front of it if these major evils are to be wiped out, but it will be surprising if something is not done forthe Generalissimo seems to have a faculty for inspiring provincial officials to see things that hitherto have escaped their eyesight and in-fencing them to make some effort to correct them. The Generalissimo and Madame Chiang hoped to have 2 talk with the missionary body, as they usually do, but the sudden departure of the Generalissimo for Szechuen prevented that. However, he lost no opportunity to talk reforms over with the officials and gentry, and he hopes that his urgings will hear fruit.
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