A BISHOP MURDERED BY CHINESE BANDITS

Eight missionary workers in the Far East, including a bishop, Mgr. Francis Hubert Schraven, are now officially reported as having been murdered. These victims were kidnapped last month by Chinese bandits at Chengting. Note of their murder has now been conveyed to their families.
Mgr. Schraven, and two others of the murdered band, were Dutchmen. and there were two Frenchmen. also among the victims.
The murdered bishop was a Lazarist. He was raised to the episcopate in 1920, as titular Bishop of Amyclae, and was consecrated in the cathedral at Chengtingfu in the following year.