TOLL OF MISSIONERS
KILLED OR CAPTURED Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, June 22. .Many missionaries in the Far East have been killed or made prisoner by the Japanese, said me Archbishop of York, Dr. Garbett at the Church Assembly at Westminster. "They could have escaped to safety but deUberately_yaited at their post for death. They died among the people to whom they were ministering." " onriim Dr. Garbett said a memorandum from the bishops in China showed that nine of 13 dioceses were wholly or partly occupied by the enemy. Half of the bishops,. 16 of 18 man bers of the Standing Committee and 20 of 25 self-supporting churches, were now m enemy hands. ...
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 5
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