Where The Japs Were
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A member of the “Pacific Islands Monthly” staff who is with the AIF in New Guinea sends this interesting photo-
graph of a memorial recently erected somewhere in Papua. The inscription on the stone reads (in part): “In Memory of the Officers, N.C.O.’s and Men who gave their lives in defending Turnbull Field.
“This marks the westernmost point of the Jap advance, Aug.-Sept., 42.
“85 Jap Marines lie buried here.”
Dengue fever, believed to have been introduced by troops returning from the South Pacific, has broken out in Hono lulu, Hawaii. The last previous cases reported in the Territory were in 1924.