ping, Oct.
Bishop F. Schraeven, a Netherlander, and eight other foreigners of French, Netherland, Austrian. Czechoslovakian and Polish nationality were kidnapped from the Roman Catholic mission at Chengtingfu, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, eu Octover 9, according to belated reports reaching Peiping to-day.
No details are available, but the kidnappers evidently took advantage of the confusion in the city' which was captured only the previous day by the Japanese, The Chengtingfu mission is a very large one, containing 41 Chinese and nearly twenty foreign priests, all of the Lazarist order. Bishop Schaeven was the vicar apostolic.—Reuter,
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