MANY MISSIONARIES
TRAPPED IN CHINA. NEW ZEALANDERS INCLUDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, January 2. A number of New Zealand and Australian missionaries were trapped in the Japanese-controlled area of China when the Pacific war started. The Rev. J. G. Bird, of the Church Missionary Society, who has returned from the Far East, estimates that about 50 British, American, New Zealand and Australian missionaries failed to get away after the Japanese attack.
The New Zealander, Dr. Phyllis Haddow, is believed to be at Hangchow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1942, Page 2
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