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The authors continue their study of maps between Seifert manifolds [the authors and \textit{S. Wang}, Math. Ann. 308, No. 4, 673-700 (1997; Zbl 0877.57003)]. In the present paper they consider maps \(f:M\to P\) between three-dimensional closed oriented manifolds where \(P\) has finite fundamental group and \(f_\#:\pi_1(M)\to\pi_1(P)\) is surjective. In case \(M\) and \(P\) are lens spaces they obtain explicit formulae for the degree of \(f\). The authors then turn to Seifert manifolds with three exceptional fibres over a sphere and they describe these manifolds as cell complexes with a single three-cell which leads them to a presentation of the fundamental group. This allows them to give explicit formulae for the degree of \(f\) in case \(M\) and \(N\) are prism manifolds. The details are highly complicated and laborious. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0979.00028].