P. Moresby is Phoning to Northern

New Guinea!

WAR correspondents reported on Nov ember 11 that Allied Signal Corps men had connected Port Moresby by long-distance land telephone with “the northern shore of New Guinea.”

They say the job was done in 22 days —a thing almost incredible to those who know the country.

It was stated that the line is now being replaced with a special cable, designed to withstand falling trees and land slides.

The idea of ‘‘ringing up” Port Moresby or Wewak from the Wau or the Watut is enough to make the old-timers bite themselves, to see if they are dreaming.

Mr. Lance Wilkinson, formerly of Misima, Papua, is at present in Canada undergoing training as an airman in the empire Air Scheme.