Donald Bell—A Correction
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IN a list of Rabaul residents believed to be prisoners in the hands of the Japanese, published in the last • PIM,” there occurred the name of Mr.
Bell —and we added the words “the one who married Joan Ifould.”
This, it appears, was not correct. When the invasion occurred there were two young men in Rabaul named Bell —Lincoln Bell and Donald Bell. Lincoln Bell escaped from Rabaul and is well —it was he who married Miss Joan Ifould. The man who did not escape, and who is believed to be a prisoner, is Donald Bell.
Mr. Donald Bell, in October, 1941, mar ried Miss Elizabeth Carruthers, a daugh ter of Mr. I. H. Carruthers, a well-known merchant of Apia, Western Samoa.
The Carruthers family, of Samoa, are descendents of the famous Swain family, who gave their name to the well-known Swain’s Island, which is part of the Ter ritory of Eastern Samoa (American).
Two of the Carruthers girls, Margaret and Elizabeth, went to Sydney in recent years and both, by their vivacity and good looks, made many friends there.
Elizabeth spent only a brief time with her new husband in Rabaul—she was swept back to Australia in the evacua tion, in December, 1941, six weeks after her arrival.