Papuan Missionaries Go
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Inland
THE following is a summary of recent information from Papua regarding the various Mission organisations there.
There is no one left at the Anglican Mission’s coastal station, Dogura, in the North-Eastern Division—Bishop P. N. W.
Strong and his staff have gone further inland. The Bishop was machine-gunned when landing from the Mission schooner “Maclaren King” on the day Japanese planes attacked Buna, but he was not
injured.
Two members of the well-known Kwato Mission (near Samarai), Mr. Abel and Mr. Baskett, have gone inland from Abau with sufficient stores to keep them and their native assistants going for 3 2. months. We understand that all the staff has been evacuated from Kwato.
The LMS has a missionary still estab lished at Saroa and one or two others at stations between Abau and Port Moresby. . .
The Seventh Day Adventist mission aries have been withdrawn from Eastern and Central Panua, but there may be some of them still in the Vailala region.
Most of the staff from the large Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Mission station on Yule Island (Central Division) have gone inland.