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...Japs took a licking last week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...
They were gentle people, the missionaries of Finschhafen, and their mission had been there a long while. They had built churches and schools on the wild New Guinea coast, and they had raised the black New Guinea children in the ways of God. They were Germans, of course, but they were Lutheran Germans. When they sang, their song was some fine old Lutheran hymn like Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress...
There was 58-year-old G. Pilhofer, learned in many of New Guinea's 300 native dialects, who had written many schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...
...mission. Under their tutelage, the mission built airdromes at Ogelbeng, Ega, Asaloka and Raipinka-but missionaries would naturally want to carry the gospel into the interior jungles. When World War II broke out, they flew the mission's single-engined Junkers plane, Papua, to Dutch New Guinea and hid it in the bush. Then-it was reported-they proceeded to Germany...
...outbreak of tribal warfare, after civil authorities withdrew from northeast New Guinea, threatened both Japs and the remaining white inhabitants...