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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 November 1939Vol. X, No. 4

Japanese Ships In Pacific

p. 36 · Read in the full issue

NOW that the Pacific tension has eased, Japanese shipping is moving more freely about the Pacific.

“Several small Japanese schooners have been here lately from the Caro lines”, says a Rabaul correspondent.

“They have Caroline native crews and Japanese officers. Just recently, a big 10.000 tons Japanese vessel came into Rabaul, stayed a few hours, and left— with mail for the South”.

Dr. R. W. Schuch has resigned from the New Guinea Administration.

Mrs. P. K. Lewis, licensee of the hotel at Madang, New Guinea, died suddenly at the end of September.