Air France Disaster

Missionaries Die In

Prom a Special Correspondent DEATH strikes without discrimination.

Among those who perished when an Air Prance Constellation plunged into the Persian Gulf on June 13 were four members of the Catholic church in New Caledonia.

They were: Mother Guy of the Eucharistie, Mother Superior of the Catholic girls’ school at Noumea, chosen to represent New Caledonia at Holy Year celebrations at Rome.

Sister Marguerite, nursing sister at the Ducos Leper settlement.

The Rev. Father Luneau of the native catechists at Canala, on the East coast, on a Holy Year pilgrim age to Rome.

The Rev. Father Luc Amoura, re cently ordained a priest and the first New Caledonian native to gain that honour, also bound for Rome.

For 20 years Mother Guy

had guided the Catholic girl hood of Noumea. She was 45 at the time of her death but perennially young and, if such a term can be applied to a nun, vivacious. Her charm was felt by all who met her. After her long years of work in the tropics she was to enjoy a long holiday after her visit to Rome.

Sister Marguerite had nursed lepers for four years and was going home to France to recuperate her own health.

Father Luneau was to have a holiday in Prance after his visit to Rome and to visit his home and family whom he had not seen for 20 years.

Father .Luc Amoura, after completing his Holy Year mission, was to continue his religious education in France.

The tragic death of these people has cast a gloom over all sections of the community of New Caledonia.

Tahiti Man Lost

Papeete, June 18

DOCTEUR GAUDIN, who owned a pharmacy business here, and who was well and favourably known, perished in the Air France disaster on June 13.