FATAL CRASH
FIVE KILLED IN NEW GUINEA
INCLUDING THREE GERMAN
PRIESTS.
ONE A NOTED EXPLORER
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day.
A message from Madang. New Guinea, states that three German mission priests, a pilot and a native were killed when a plane crashed while taking off with a party attached to the Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost at Sek Harbour. The white men killed were Fathers Joseph Kirschbaum, J. Weyer and Otto Bader and Pilot W. Schafhausen. Father Kirschbaum was a missionarary anthropologist, explorer and author and was widely known in New Guinea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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100FATAL CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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