War Breaks Up Mission Station
WAR has broken up the English Universities' Mission station at Masasi in German East Africa. On the twenty-seventh of August, two Roman Catholic priests brought to Masasi news that a band of warriors had destroyed their station not far off. The English missionaries—six men and four women—lost not a moment. They stole away, avoiding the “rebels” by a circuitous route, and struck out for the coast, about one hundred miles away. Canon Porter, one of the missionaries, was ill, and was carried all the way by two devoted native Christians. The journey was safely made, and at last accounts the German authorities were sending troops to the scene of disorder. Mpangile, a station of the Berlin Missionary Society far west of Masasi, has also been attacked.