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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 June 1936Vol. VI, No. 11

Missionary

p. 7 · Read in the full issue

Two Years' Gaol for American Missionary

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, June 10.

\ T the Rabaul Court to-day Chief Judge D. S. Wanliss sentenced Henry Foege, a Lutheran missionary of Ameri can birth, to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour for having unlawfully deprived a native of his liberty.

Foege was stationed in an “uncontrolled area” in the Morobe district, and he kept a native as hostage while recovering ar ticles stolen by the native’s tribe from native Lutheran mission teachers.