Jap Spies In New Guinea

THE tragic story of how the Japs were allowed to go spying all over New Guinea, and therefore learned that New Guinea, in accordance with the League of Nations Mandate, had not been fortified, was told in London “Daily Telegraph” on February 27 by Squadron Leader Monty Phillips, QBE, now a legal officer in the RAAF in Britain, and for merly Chief Judge in New Guinea. He said:— “Japanese vessels called regularly at New Guinea, and many Japanese visited the Territory, some as tourists with the inevitable cameras. Others preferred by ways, and arrived in speedy fishing craft, ostensibly searching for shell and beche de-mer, carefully avoiding ports of entry.”

Mr. R. D. Blandy, British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, re cently was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).