MURDERED BY JAPANESE
CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND NUNS GUADALCANAR OUTRAGE (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent) (Rec. 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 3. According to the Sydney Morning Herald’s correspondent in the Solomons, two Catholic priests and two nuns who were murdered by the Japanese at Guadalcanal - were bayoneted to death because the priests refused to enter the United States lines and inform Major-general Vandegrift that the Americans could not win and should quit. The correspondent states that the American positions around Kukum airfield have been consolidated in preparation for possible Japanese attempts to land further reinforcements.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25090, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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