Father Paul

When General Chiang Kai-shek marched up from Canton through the centre of China four years ago to capture Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting.

Such an army swept down on the city of Kianfu, Kiangsi province last week. Kianfu boasts a Christian cathedral. From it the bandits kidnapped three French nuns, two priests: one French, one Chinese. The whites were prudently held for $20,000 ransom apiece. Nobody seemed likely to pay $20,000 for a Chinaman. While the nuns gasped Pater Nosters through stiff white lips, Father Paul Cheng was led before them to the cathedral steps, brutally beheaded.

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