In Memoriam
p. 38 · Read in the full issue
PRYKE. —In loving memory of my dear husband, Frank Pryke, who passed away at Coogee, Sydney, on August 5, 1937.
Sydney, Aug. 5, 1943. —INA PRYKE.
Heavy damage had been done in the plantation.
The smashed remains of Zeros and bombers lay around, some in revetments built about the strip.
Kokengolo Hill was honeycombed with tunnels, which held Japanese. The Americans made attempts to induce them to surrender, through interpreters, but without success, so the enemy were dyna mited. One terrific explosion occurred in the hill, where Japanese high explos ive was stored.
Some Americans were wounded, and one man on the other side of the hill was partly covered with powdered coral.
This explosion shook the ignition key from every nearby truck.
A party of Chinese was captured. They had been herded at bayonet-point on to a ship in Hong Kong, shackled, and brought to work at Munda.