Japan's Non-Pacific
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Advances
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Aug. 24.
JAPAN’S new order in China is doing well—thanks to British iron ore (from Malayan mines) and American oil.
Latest angle which must interest those observers watching the war machine creep southward, closer to Hong Kong, Borneo, and New Guinea.
In September, a Japanese airline is to be opened between Shanghai and Hainan Island, by way of Amoy and Canton.
American built planes are to be used.
Each plane will leave Shanghai at 10 a.m. and be in Hainan at 3 p.m.
Using American planes, also, the Jap anese service from Tokyo through the Mandated Islands, to a point just north of New Guinea, is now well established.
Rev. Ramsey Ramnarayan Deoki was ordained recently at the Dudley Memor ial Church, Suva, to the Methodist min istry. He is the first Fiji-born Indian to be received into full connection for service with the Methodist Mission in Fiji. His initial appointment as an or dained minister is in the Lautoka circuit, a populous Indian district.
Mr. J. Austin, of the Apia Observatory, left Western Samoa recently for U.S.A., where he will join the staff of the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology.
Major F. Hewitt, general manager in Sydney for Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd., visited Fiji in August by the “Aorangi”