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Show The list of victims among the Catholic Cath-olic missionaries in China steadily grows. A telegram announces the massacre mas-sacre of Fathers Denn anil Mangin. S. . ( J., with 3.000 of their Christians in South Chi Li. The former of these had seen thirty years of service in China. the latter eighteen years. Th Paris Society of Foreign Missions Mis-sions received a telegram announcing the murder of Father Oeorjon an I Louis Leray. in North Manchuria. Both were quite young missionaries, w ho ha 1 arrived in Manchuria in 1S92 and lStw. respectively. Still later the Jesuit Fathers received a further dispatch addfng the names of five priests and a lay brother to their martyroiogy in Chi j Li, viz.. Fathers Finck. Gaudissart. Ne- ; veux. Cesard and Gissiger, and Broth- i er Kieffer, with the brief addendum. j "mission devastated." It is to be feared i that the list will go on increasing weex 5 by week. 1 j The alumni of Georgetonwn univer- k sity are arranging for a public cele- f bration of "Forefathers' Day." i:i L honor of the early Catholic apostles of, f religious liberty in Maryland. A so- ciety of the descendants of the soldiers) f of the Irish brigade in France, to b? f affiliated with the French society of j ; the Irish brigade, has been formed. ' ; Mr. Charles Harper Walsh, of the well- known family of that name, is the sec- v retary. An annual requiem mass for i Patrick Sarsfield. Earl of Lucan. i3 i proposed. Mr. Walsh is a son of the j late Robert Walsh, consul general at ; Florence, and grandson of the pre- ; ceding Robert Walsh, who was min- i ister from the 'United States to Louis ;! Philippe. The first Walsh who cami I to this country was Baron Shannon, creation of James II. . |