Clippers' Secret Pacific

Routes

PAN-AMERICAN Clippers, despite the

war, are still onerating in many areas of the Pacific.

The New York “Herald-Tribune” m March stated that the Navy has forbidden snecific details but has permitted the dis closure that the Clippers are taking imnortant passengers and tons of mail and war material between the mainland and unnamed Islands norts of the Pacific.

There are no schedules, but the Clippers are actuallv operating faster and more franuentlv than before the war.

Thev do not follow the same course on each flight. The luxurious interiors have been torn out to allow the transport of as much material as possible.

Mr. R. A. Laws, a well-known mer chant of Morobe, New Guinea, did not . waste time in lamentation after the evacuation. He has purchased a general store at Harris Park, a suburb of Sydney, and already is engaged in the business with characteristic energy. Mr. Laws left his large and well-stocked store in Wau at short notice and it is not known what has happened to his valuable property there.

Mr. Baden Jones, who was a partner with Mr. Eric Hopkins in the Rabaul Carrying Company, Rabaul, and who was evacuated from New Britain in a seriously ill condition at the end of December, died in the Wahroonga Sanatorium, Sydney, on January 31. His widow, Mrs. Isabel M. Jones, is residing at present in North bridge, Sydney.