BISHOP KILLED IN THE CONGO

LFOPOLDVTLLE BISHOP JOSEPH WITTEBOLS, S.C.J., of Wamba, a 52year-old native of Belgium, has been murdered by Congolese rebels, according to reports reaching here.
The bishop was among 25 to
30 white hostages reportedly killed before his See city was retaken from the rebels by Congolese Army troops on December 29. The reports did not fay where, when or how all those killed were put to death.
but mentioned that about Ill whites were slain and eaten at
Christmas.
Congolese soldiers Ted by while mercenaries rescued 120 whites, including 110 Greeks, in Wattlha. located some 250 miles north-cast of Stanleyvillc, scene of earlier massacres by rebels. About 100 others, mostly Belgians, were said to he missing from Wamba, presumably dragged off into the bush
by retreating rebel forces before the town was retaken.
Priest and nuns
Among the hostag c believed to have been held for a time in Wamba are 37 priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and 59 Sisters of various orders, Also thought to have been among the hostages was an American Protestant missionary, William McChesney of the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade.
Wamba is one of the last towns in Ilse northeastern Congo where rebels are known to have held a large number of hostages, Meanwhile, Archbishop Malula of Leopoldville stressed in a message that peace must be sought not in "the whizzing of rifle bullets" nor in "the toaring of cannons", but in ju.shcc and charity.
"It is the peace which stems from justice and charity . , . and the coming of Jesus among us already realises such justice and such charity for it brings about the union of men with God and with one another," Archbishop Malula said, The prelate said that suffering stems from "weakness toward injuslice. opulence of the few in the face of the misery of the many". It is brotherhood, he said, that can eliminate from the Congo every division, hatred, violence and murder.