Caught In Landslide

French Priest Killed in Papua

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, Aug. 1.

WHILE travelling in the mountains behind Yule Island, on July 17, Father C. Garreau, a French Roman Cath olic priest, was overwhelmed without warning by a landslide, and killed. Fathers Sorin and Rodut, who were walking be hind him in single file, narrowly escaped with their lives.

The three missionaries were inspecting a new route made in the Ononge District by Father Garreau. The district is no torious for its broken and precipitous country.

Father Garreau had been in Papua with the Roman Catholic. Order of the Sacred Heart since 1926, He was 38 years old.

Mr. A. W. Mull ins, chief engineer of Guinea Airways Ltd., arrived in Sydney from Lae, New Guinea, by the August Macdhui.

Mr. L. J. O’Malley, the young Patrol Officer who accompanied Mr. Jack Hides on his expedition into unknown Papua last year, arrived in Australia by the Macdhui on August 13. He was on official duty, escorting a white prisoner to Sydney.