Thirteenth death
Salisbury Another missionary has., died from injuries she suffered in the last massacre at a mission in eastern Rhodesia on June 30. She was Miss Mary Fisher, who was left badly injured in the attack in which eight British missionaries and four children xvere killed. Miss Fisher suffered what the hospital described as a terrible beating and was believed to
have lost the sight of both eyes. Two Roman Catholic priests, an Irish Cannelite and a German Jesuit, have been ordered to leave Rhodesia. The order from the transitional Government means that 10 Roman Catholic clergymen have been deported in the last two years. Thirteen Catholic missionaries have been murdered at mission outposts and three others nave been abducted and are believed dead.
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