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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 9

A Bronze Bell

p. 141 · Read in the full issue

For Biak

le Protestant Church in : has got a new bronze bell bell that says “thank you” he native parishioners, who night in June, 1957, paddled r canoes back and forth ng the wreckage of a KLM vr Constellation and rescued urvivors. le aircraft had just taken from Biak bound Amster via Manila and Middle , when it crashed in the Over 50 people lost their \e bell was made especially Heiligerlee, Holland, and les an inscription in the native vernacular.