JAPANESE DENIAL
KILLING OF NUN FEARS FOR MISSIONARIES (Reed. Nov. 3, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 1. According to the Pekin correspondent of the United Press of America grave fears were expressed to-day for the safety of Roman Catholic missionaries arrested by the Japanese military authorities in south Tientsin. The Japanese military spokesman said that 13 Chinese Roman Catholic priests, members of a Jesuit mission in Si'enhsien, were arrested and charged with having suspicious relations with Chinese Communists and bandits. It was denied that the Japanese killed a nur,. Shanghai reports said that a number of priests and nuns had been killed by the Japanese at the Sienhsien mission. More than 50 missionaries were stationed at the mission. Japanese dispatches accounted for the safety of only 13.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20603, 3 November 1941, Page 5
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