MISSIONARY FROM SYRIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24070, 15 September 1941, Page 2

MISSIONARY FROM SYRIA

EVACUATED TO JERUSALEM Evacuated ab the end of May from Syria to Jerusalem when the Germans had already begun to enter the country and take over the aerodromes, Miss .Molly Harries, of the British Syrian Mission, has arrived in New Zealand, whore she anticipates spending a year before returning to Syria if war conditions permit. It was only a week after the British Consul in Syria had ordered the evacuation of the British people that fighting began in earnest. Before she Jeft Miss Harries had the experience of seeing aeroplanes of the Royal Air Force bombing an aerodrome outside Damascus, but that was the only fighting activity she saw. The British Syrian Mission members, said Miss Harries, worked chiefly through the schools. In Beirut they had a teachers' training college attached to the school, where the mission trained its own Syrian teachers for other schools. More direct evangelistic work was done in the villages, while the mission also did a certain amount of medical work.