Blasted By War
p. 38 · Read in the full issue
Mission Station and Plantation in New Georgia
'Y'HE following, from War Correspond ent John Fairfax, was published re cently in “Sydney Morning Herald”
It gives some idea of what happened at Munda (formerly the headquarters of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons ) and at the nearby Lambeti Plantation (formerly Mr. Leslie Gill’s famous “show place”) .
AFTER a 36-days campaign, Munda fell more quickly than was expected.
Mopping-up finished with the dyna miting of Japanese from Kokengolo Hill, near the airstrip. Desultory shooting occurred as the remaining Japanese pushed north-easterly into hills.
Several islands near Munda were swept clean by artillery fire in the campaign, and at Lambeti Plantation palm trees stood like shattered match sticks. A few tree trunks covered Bibolo Hill, but Kokengolo Hill was bare of grass and trees: bomb-blast had covered the hill.
Walking through Lambeti Plantation I saw many Japanese foxholes, deep in the coral and overlaid with palm trunks.