Fiji Airman In Hands Of

Japs

BECAUSE he chanced to switch on his radio and tune into a Tokyo short wave broadcast, just before going to bed at 10.15 p.m. on March 20, Mr. R. C.

Farquhar, of Suva, Fiji, was able to in form Mr. and Mrs. C. Sollitt, of Nausori, that their son, Aircraftsman Charles Sollitt, RAAF, who had been reported missing, is now safe and unhurt in a Japanese prison camp.

Mr. Farquhar said he had just got on to the Jap station when the announcer said “I have messages from war prisoners —the first is from Sollitt, Charles Hickson, Aircraftsman, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 20. His parents live at Nausori, Fiji Islands. He sends his love to his mother and father and Eileen (his sister). He was picked up out of the sea and is unhurt, and is now in a prisoner of-war camp with some Australians and Americans.

“Sollitt says T am unhurt. It’s fairly cold here, and if I am going to be here next year I shall be glad if you will send some warm clothing. I shall also be grateful for some comforts. I don’t know when I shall be able to write’.”

Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., and Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd. report that because war conditions have delayed receipt of returns from branches, the issue of the balance sheets will be delayed this year.

The balance sheets are usually available late in April or early in May.