HUNTED IN JUNGLE
MISSIONARIES ESCAPE FROM JAPS.
P.A. Special.
SYDNEY, Oct. 22.
After being hunted by the Japanese for eight weeks in the Guadalcanar jungle, 14 Roman Catholic missionaries — seven priests and seven nuns — have been rescued and evacuated from the Solomons. They include two Australians and a New Zealander, Father D. Scanlon, of Miramar, Wellington. The missionaries are all members of the Marist Order, the leader being the Bishop of the South Solomons, Bishop J. M. Aubin. The spokesman for the party told a Sydney Herald war correspondent that until the United States occupation of the islands, the Japanese treated the missionaries in a friendly way. But fearing atrocities, the party took to the jungle on the eighth day of the American attack. Christian natives gave the missionaries every assistance, and refused to lead the Japanese to them. One native who misdirected enemy soldiers was shot. Two of the Sisters gave first aid to a Japanese airman who had crashed, and the day after the airman's departure Japanese troops came to find them, but failed.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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176HUNTED IN JUNGLE Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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