Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-03
BISHOP TACCONI TO FOUND
 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN


 Rt. Rev. Joseph Taceoni, DID. bishop of Eastern Honan, China, began tour that he is to make through Connecticut by speaking Sunday morning at the 10.3o o'clock mass at St. Mary's church before a large congregation, which listened with great interest to his story of twenty-five years in the mission field in China. His diocese contains IT, 900 Catholics in the midst of a native pagan population of seven million.
 Next October Bishop Tacconi will sail from San Francisco to return to his field, taking with him three young priests and six Sisters who will be engaged in open ling schools for the Chinese young men and young women This will be the first community of American Sisters to enter China. The six Sisters selected are all i university graduates and the three young priests who will go with him are also picked men. Two are from Pittsburgh and one from Erie. They will be ordain- ed to the priesthood in June
 1 At the present time Bishop Tacconi is engaged in visiting the churches and in viting contributions which will pay the travelling expenses of the party back to | China, about S1O,000, as the rising prices have sent travel expenses up to about 1 $1,O00 per person from America to China.
 l Bishop Tacconi returned from China l sixteen months ago specially for the pur- | pose of organizing and taking back this
 band of teachers with the idea that through education of the young Chinese | would be found a road of ap0roach to 1 their parents. When the mi /Jn school
 is located, it will be transplanting a lit tie section of America to that far-off
 land for the American az will be run up
 on the school buildings.
 Bishop Tacconi who is an Italian g
 native of Milan, went to the Chimes,
 mission field at the age of 22 and was
 the first white man to enter the city O. Kaifeng in East Hanan as a mission
 ary. Kaifeng is now a city of 300,000 ; it's population made up of the bette
 class of Chinese, mostly officers. civi and military men, and big business men 5 Around it is a big coal mining distric and two lines of railroad run through i; 3 east and west. and north and south. l . l is reached from the coast by way o
 Shanghai a four days journey by steam
 boat and two days by rail.
 In the course of his twenty-five year
 in the field he has often been in dange of his life on his missionary trips int . new towns and has frequently been pro = tected in the home of the mandarf while a mob outside was Rowling to ge ,, at him. At night he would be secretl . slipped out of the mandarin's house t f safety. During the Boxer rebellion tn a mission buildings were burned and tn r Catholics of his diocese took refuge be l. hind the mud walls of the mandarin
 place and were besieged there for thre \, months while they fought off the attack l. of the Boxers. He lived in the mandf If rin's residence for two years after tf
 Boxer rebellion. Thousands of Catholi, s, have been martyrs for their faith in Il l. twenty-five years he has been in China h He speaks of the Chinese as a stud S. ous, quiet, moral and reliable kind r. people, far different from the Japanes r. who are aggressive, crafty and trick of The Japanese even do not trust each ot
 CT, as an example of this it is signi s, cant that in Japanese banks the CT e, ployes are all Chinese.
 The Chinese are well disposed towar of the Americans. because of Americas a ct in not enforcing the Boxer indemni h. when other nations did. In spite of t te vast numbers of the Chinese, Bish
 Tacconi says there is no danger but T y ther blessing to come to the world h. the development of this nation but t '5 development of Japan is menace to t
 world peace and security
 The Shantung award to Japan is .E robbery and Japan through holding tI ,,o territory controls the Orient and is f; of crowding out the French and Engli 5 there.
 m omr Bishop Tacconi looks for great chans ", in the world in the next ten years a N, foresees a coalition of the east, head by Japan and Russia, against the rest en the world.