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No. 3355.
PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1968.
REFUGEES FLEE FROM BORNEO HEAD HUNTERS
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N ATIONAL headquarters of Australian Catholic Relief in Sydney has received an appeal for urgent assistance for thousands of Chinese fleeing from headhunting tribes in Pontianak, West Borneo. ve Direc- Relief Services says that of communal kitchens. THEtor Executi and Latest reports of A.C.R., Mon- between 50,000 say that
70,000 Chinese have fled signor G. M. Crennan, to the cities of Pontia thousands of refugees - are dying in emerge ncy said in Sydney last week nak and Singkawang in camps in Indone sian West Borneo. that the Advisory ComBorneo and more than Catholic Relief Ser- 4,000 have died in remittee of Australian Cavices has already divert- cent months in appaltholic Relief has already ed food, clothin g and ling conditions. Diseases recommended to the medical supplies and has are rampant and .mediBishops' Committee an made an initial emer- eine and food desperategency grant of $5,000. ly short. immediate grant and Australian Catholic Rethis was awaiting en- lief has now been asked The report received for added assistance to in Sydney by Austradorsement. meet the daily food re- lian-Catholic Relief says A report received by quirements of the thou- the trouble erupted late A.C.R. from the Geneva sands of Chinese refu- last year when several headquarters of Catholic gees. and the operation Daya tribes began to oppose the Chinese population, who were driven from their homes in the western part of Western Borneo.
PRIEST PAYS A 8TIIT PENALTY
The report, which has been forwarded to Sydney by Mr. Jean J. Chenard, Director of the Overseas Office of Catholic Relief Services in FDGE Tim Murphy of protest . The priest, who Geneva, says that if we the District of Col- was attired in civilian take into consideration umbia (U.S.A.) Court of garb when arrested with the prevalent conflicts General Sessions admit- 87 other protestors at which have existed for ted he was somew the Capitol and also years and the acuteness hat baffled over a religious when he appeared in of which has been condiscrimination charg e court, told the judge he tinually intensified This emaciated child is one of 70,000 Chinese refu gees who have fled from head-hunting tribesmen in made against him for deliberately violated the through racial propa- the current upheaval in West Borneo. The refugees are living in extreme poverty in emergency barracks imposing a 90 -day gaol law as a matter of con- ganda actions, then the and sheds and observers on the spot say it is hard to visualise the depth of wretchedness of these sentence on avalanche in West Bor- people. a Catholic science. priest involved neo is understandable as in a Poor People's Campa a local, bloody revoluign deNo Difference monstration at the U.S. tion. Capitol building. The report says that Indicating a disincliThe charge nation to review the the conflict between the was made in a message Chinese and the Indian received case, Judge Murphy said population by the in West Borhe refused to be "intimijudge from the Association neo has been an acute dated" by messag the e of Detroit Priests problem for years, espefrom the The executive board. group. Detroit priests' cially since Indonesia message said the asHe said Father THE Diocese of Bathurst, New South sible, in the convent was "shocked Moloney is an intelli- gained independence in at the Wales, believed to be the first in Aus oratory. gent man who knew 1945. apparen tly excesIf, however, the consive sentence of 90 days what he was doing. He ralia to allow nuns to distribute Holy vent has no oratory, the in gaol" meted out on added: "There is no difELL-TO-DO parishBarrier parish church may be ,J111,3' 2 to ference between a priest C ommunion, joins two areas in New used. es in Brisbane archMoloney Father Dennis or anyone 27, The reluctance or lack diocese will share CaLion Grotto of Assump- lar positio else in a simiThere are several conn when a de- of comprehension on Guinea which already have this perparish, Detolic school costs with troit. vents within the Batliberate violation of the the part of the Chinese. missio n. hurst Diocese located at poorer ones under a new The law is involved. I don't which prevented them associat ion mes- make the laws, just en- from realisin considerable distance plan based on the prinsage said the g the imThe permission to dis- Diocese requested by a board confrom a resident priest. ciple that education is a cluded force them." portance of integration tribute Holy Commu- Bishop A. R. E. Thomas diocesan rather than a "discrim ination" ,li as Father Moloney's sen- with the Indonesians. nion, in certain circum- of Bathurst, involved because of parish responsbility. has been 4ther tence was the stiffest the insurmountable bar- stances, to members of granted Moloney's by the Holy See Any surpluses in parDeprived ;t and asked"reli- meted out by Judge rier which they have their own community for an initial period of ishes that have met Judge to the Murphy to a group of built through the use of was granted recently to three years. flci the review the case demonstrators who Sisters in these places their own school costs were the Chinese language in nuns in the Bathurst "excess ive sen- brought before him. private as have been deprived of will go into an overall 'enee" given Notification of this priwell as in Diocese. • the vilege was received by daily reception of the fund that will help other 'Illcige Murphy priest Several other priests public, the persistent l detailed were among other de- opposition, found also Bishop Thomas recently Holy Eucharist, an ele- parishes meet salary ex,ri,is'ecientials to support monstrators and Isolation in a letter from the Sac- ment very important in penditures or building receiv- among those who state of nonplus over ed much lighter sen- acquired an Indonehave A second 1,1e 41 red Congregation for the the life of every Reli- payments. sian At Tsak Pumakos, Evangelis fund, for gious. school develop"onreligious discrimina- tences when they were citizenship, to integrate ation of Nacharge. He said: "I ?onvicted before an- their schools, the econo- Hanging Valley, in the tions. )a11i.1 , a They will now be able ment, has been set up to Western Highlands of graduate of St. other judge of the court. mic domina to receive the sacrament finance additional classenaers Colleg tion of the New Guinea, in the Dioe rooms for existing 4?ted (operNo Priest b Chinese minority — 18 each day. The protest at„ne.,...Y the schools or to build new . Edmundite arrested near ors were per cent of the popula- cese of Mt. Hagen. the the CapiThe faculty, which The new faculty will region schools In Winoos Sister Superior of the park, al , and to p ki tol building on June g_i1C, Verm ont) tion of West Borneo — Sisters 28 of Mary can give becomes operative im- also benefit nuns in pariTa Vermont) and of as they were attempting over all groups (it is the Sacrament to the mediately, permits the ishes where a resident re - finance existing getown school loans on longer b,,,s_chool University #o gain entrance to the estimated 80 per cent is other nuns in the ab- Superior of a convent, priest is unavailable for terms. (conducted House of Repres t il;ne Chinese capita l), the seve or entaral anothe days through illr Sister deleJesuits deg)r.e., I am in Wash- tives chamber. The 87 conscious efforts aimed sence of their priest. gated by her or taking ness, absent on The new school plan retreat This is an isolated area. a third.. bil e at the preservation of were charged with discovers all schools except her place, to give Holy or annual vacation. Knight of The Sisters of Charity Colum- orderly conduct in some their privileged position, thes rt,1:1.C1,. a at Bundi, in the Diocese Communion to herself. The permission has those owned by relimember of c ases Itteea gious orders. It has been and with unlawful which they have occu- of Madang, in the Cen- her fellow-Religious and been ,,`-,c1J,dlnal:s granted in virtue iri'llettle Commit- assembly in others. pied for ages—these and tral Highlands, to any members of the of an Instruction of the -.stimated that the BrisLaity here." also When they appeared in many other factors have learne Judge bane archdiocese will faithful present, provid- Sacred Congregation of have to expend seven d Father said he oourt most of the de- contributed to the in- have such permission to ed that no priest is the Sacraments issued i,h,Ite4_ to w • Moloney monstrators, creasing tensions evi- distribute Communion ashingto and a quarter million 1 in 1966. n by ther Molone as did Fa- dent in West Borneo so- to their own Sisters in available. y, pleaded lollars in the next ten 3'oorppartieipate in the their own chapel. The distribution of no contest to the ciety. It is being used exten "Ple's -ears to keep up with The permis sion for Holy Communion should sively in mission area r.lementary Campaign charges. and seconSEE PAGE NINE 1111/r nuns in the Bathurst take place, as far as pos of the Church. dary school needs.
OUTBACK NUNS GAIN PRIVILEGE
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