Religion: King of the Cannibal Isles

The Japs found they couldn't run the Solomon Islands without the help of an American-born missionary. And so the last word via Suva is that stocky, jolly little Bishop Thomas Wade is out of jail and very busy protecting his flock from the Japs and the Japs from his flock.

Officials and merchants of these British and Australian islands fled in January when an enemy warship was reported near. The bishop stayed put. Soon a Jap seaplane swooped down to take possession and Bishop Wade, like Pope Leo I going out to meet Attila, stalked...

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