The Battering Of

Munda

ONE who recently saw Munda from the air has an interesting story to tell, in a private letter to the “PIM.”

Munda now is a Japanese base in the New Georgia area of the Solomons, and is frequently visited by American bomb ers. It was once the principal station thereabouts of the Methodist Missionary Society. The letter says:— “After over 120 air raids on the Japs at Munda, Leslie Gill’s plantation home there, Labete, is now pounded to pow der. The mission station at Kokengolo, in the same area, is similarly smashed.

This is another bit of our Islands world that will have to be built all over again when this show is finished.”