MISSIONARY PERILS
SELF-SACRIFICING PRIESTS
Received October 18, 9.43 p.m
' LONDON, October 18
The British Universities' mission at" Masai was warned by two German Benedictine fathers and fled to the coast at half an houir's notice. They walked 120 miles in three days," though they were accompanied by three lady missionaries. They escaped attack, the'brunt of the natives' violence falling upon the Benedictine missions, whose bishop and five companions were killed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12631, 19 October 1905, Page 5
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70MISSIONARY PERILS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12631, 19 October 1905, Page 5
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