TWO MURDERED PRIESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19604, 5 April 1927, Page 9

TWO MURDERED PRIESTS.

FRENCH JESUIT ORDER. CRIME BY THE CANTONESE. STORY OF NANKING HORROR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 4, 5.1 p.m.) A. and N.Z. . PARIS, April 4. The Paris newspapers give prominence to reports as to the fate of the two Jesuit priests, Fathers Dubous and Manama, a.t Nanking. It is officially announced that they were put to death by order of the Cantonese authorities. Their bodies were mutilated after their execution and left lying unburied for several days. POLICY OF FRANCE. M. BRIAND SATISFIED. LONE HAND PREFERRED. Times. PARIS, April 3. The Paris correspondent of the Times says unofficial reports indicate that in the course of a statement made by the Foreign Minis.ter, M. Briand, to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies he professed to be satisfied with the position of France in regard to China on the ground that France's policy of neutrality would enable her representatives to negotiate with anybody and everybody, M. Briand is reported to have said France had refused an invitation from Britain to be associated with the other Powers in joint action, and to liavo expressed satisfaction that the French Government was not implicated in the bombardment of Nanking.