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MISSIONARY IN KOREA. A message from Fusan, Korea, states that Dr. James MacKenzie, aged 74, Australian Presbyterian missionary, has been detained_ by the Japanese authorities. He is accused of having photographed local fortified zones, and sent copies to London. Dr. MacKenzie is being closely interrogated by the authorities. He is greatly esteemed for his missionary work, and has been prominent in connection with the local leper hospital, which houses 300 patients. Dr. MacKenzie is a Melbourne missionary, who has received gifts from the Emperor and Empress of Japan, because of his great work among the lepers at Pusan. His elder daughter is studying medicine at Melbourne University, and another daughter is in trainiiig at the Children’s Hospital. The Japanese Government thought so highly of Dr. MacKenzie that it conferred a diploma on him some time ago to enable him to practise medicine among the lepers in the station of which he has charge. He was not a doctor in Australia, blit only a minister. He was at one time a missionary in the New' Hebrides. He has been in Korea more than 25 years.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 49, 25 January 1935, Page 2
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