"War News"

Australian newspapers, publishing Pacific Islands war news daily, make all the usual faux pas in names and descriptions. A small Jap force landed at Kessa, in Buka (part of the Mandated Territory), whereupon “Japanese Naval Force in the Solomons", yelled a leading newspaper. The Japs occupied Finsch hafen, in New Guinea, and a Sydney journal said it was “60 miles west of Lae". The late Sir Hubert Murray was described as “a former governor of New Guinea”. And so on—and on.