Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 June 1942Vol. XII, No. 11

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Vol. Xii. No. 11.

June 15, 1942

Established 1930

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No Mystery Now

When this Japanese sampan was seized and photographed in Torres Strait in 1932 it was described as “mysterious”—no one, then, could understand why swarms of little Jap vessels were beginning to prowl around our coral islands and reefs. But there is no mystery now. The invaders of our peaceful territories have complete maps of every area in which they have appeared in New Guinea, Eastern Papua and the Solomons. The “fishermen” on the sampans were expert map-makers.

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