The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 August 1942Vol. XIII, No. 1

Islands

pp. 1-2 · Read in the full issue

Pacific

Monthly

Vol. Xiii. No. L.

August 17, 1942

Established 1930

IRegistered at the G.P.0., Sydney , /or transmission by post as a newspaper ]

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Time's Changes In The

Ten years ago, in the remote and islated village of kokoda, in the interior of Papua, this photo graph of Papuan dancing girls was taken. To-day, near Kokoda, soldiers of the United States and Australia are grimly holding the mountain pass against troops from Japan, as part of one of the most critical struggles in the history of mankind.