FIVE MISSIONARIES
MURDERED BY INDIANS IN BOLIVIA. BODIES FOUND BY TROOPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LA PAX, January 16. A Bolivian' military detachment found the bodies of five American missionaries in camps of savage Indians near the Santo Corazon River. The missionaries apparently had not been eaten, although the Indians in the region practise cannibalism. The missionaries were members of the “New Tribes Mission” of Chicago. They set out in November to befriend tribes in an unexplored region. They refused to carry arms, fearing that the sight of weapons might arouse suspicion and anger the natives.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1944, Page 4
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