Mortlocks.
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Japanese Base In
[Letter to the Editor ] REGARDING the article in The Pacific Islands Monthly of March 18, entitled “Pacific Travellers’ Stories of Naval Bases”, most people in the Territory of New Guinea, reading the article, may think that the “Mortlock Islands” re ferred to are the Mortlock Islands of the Territory of New Guinea (situated East of Bougainville), where the establish ment of a Japanese submarine base is at present obviously impossible.
The Mortlock Islands referred to in the article are probably the Nomoi (Mortlock) Group in the Carolines, south-east of Truk. Reference to this group will be found in descriptions of the wanderings of Bully Hayes.
I am, etc.,
Rabaul,
Territorial.
4/6/1933.