Torpedo

Murdered by Nazi Torpedo Sister Neave, Lately of New Hebrides

EUROPEANS and natives in the New Hebrides will be shocked by news of the tragic death of Miss Neave.

On the completion of her training as a nurse, in Melbourne, she was appointed to the Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila, where she spent six years, first as a sister and then as matron.

On her departure from the Islands, before settling down to her profession in Australia, she gratified a long-cherished desire and paid a visit to her old home in Scotland. When on holiday there she was offered and accepted an appointment as nurse in the Colonial Hospital, San Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies.

Last summer, she returned to Scotland, for her first furlough and, after an en joyable holiday, left for Holland to join the Dutch steamer “Simon Bolivar’’, on her return to Trinidad. Letters, written before she left England, to her friends in the New Hebrides, were full of happy greetings and the prospect of a further term of service in the work she loved.

As all the world knows, the “Simon Bolivar” (neutral) was deliberately tor pedoed bv the Nazis near the coast of England, in November, with great loss of life. There were some Trinidad passen gers on board, four of whom were lost, and Miss Neave was one of them.

Miss Neave had a great capacity for friendship, and left many good comrades behind her in the New Hebrides. Her auiet and efficient service as matron ol the Paton Memorial Hospital endeared her to European and native alike. All will mourn for one so young, snatched from life by man’s inhuman strife.