by Japanese Attack
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Residents of Gilbert and Ellice Colony, Cut Off
(See article on opposite page. Details of photographs at foot of preceding column.)
Key to Photographs
TOP LEFT: Mr. R. H. Garvey, Acting Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, photographed on the Colony’s despatch vessel “Nimanoa” in October last. Mr. Garvey is believed to be still safe on Ocean Island; but the “Nimanoa” was at Tarawa when the Japs, attacked on December 8, and was run up on the reef. TOP RIGHT: Mr. and Mrs. Bevington and small daughter Jean. He was Administrative Officer at Tarawa when the Japs, came, and it is feared that he, and all the other European men of Tarawa, pictured below, were made prisoners by the Asiatics. The women and children were evacuated. LEFT CENTRE: Mrs.
Harness, wife of the master of the “Nimanoa”.
RIGHT CENTRE; The Administrative Officer’s bungalow at Tarawa. All Government buildings are reported to have been destroyed. BOTTOM LEFT: Captain Harness (master of “Nimanoa”, Mrs. Sinclair (wife of the chief engineer of “Nimanoa”), and Master Keith Harness, photo graphed in front of Captain Harness’s bungalow.
The four small photographs are;—Top row: Dr. Steenson (in car) and Dr. Isaac, of the Government Health Department; and, bottom row, Captain Handley (recently retired from Burns, Philp service) and Second-Engineer Hunt (of RCS “Nimanoa”).