Score of People in US

Rescued

Score of People in US Submarine

INFORMATION about people who have been “missing” for many months was received recently, when it was offi cially announced that an American sub marine had brought five men, 17 women and a number of children from Japanese occupied territory and landed them safely on an island of the Solomons. The men were:— F. P. Archer, planter.

Max Babbage, planter.

G. Edmonds, plantation manager.

A. R. Long, plantation manager.

It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. C. I.

H. Campbell also got safely away, after hardships and narrow escapes extending over many months.

These men were refugees, for many months, in one of the islands, and fre quently were nearly captured by Japan ese. They were very anxious about the safety of women missionaries who had remained in that area, most of them nuns. Eventually, they made contact with the Americans, and their rescue by submarine was organised. They were treated with great kindness by the Ameri cans; and they tasted bread, sugar and tea for the first time for many months during their lengthy voyage by submarine.

From some of these people we have

word of Trevor Collett (planter), Arthur Atkins (SDA missionary), and C. S. Cook (plantation manager), who were on Elmira Island when the Germans landed many people from torpedoed ships there at Christmas, 1940, and who helped them to safety. Collett and Atkins, early in 1942, tried to escape in an SDA vessel; but the Japs caught them, and others, near Putput. Atkins died; and Collett is believed to be a prisoner of war. Cook is safe in Australia. It was reported that he had died; but evidently he was con fused with Mr. Short, of Soraken, who died of pneumonia in June, 1941.