Japs in Solomons

Five Out Of Five

Thousand

Chinese Rescued From Japs in Solomons

From Our Special Correspondent CHANG YOU believes that he and four others, rescued with him on Guadalcanal, are all that remain alive of about 5,000 Chinese whom the Japs took there as slaves.

Chang You was captured in 1940 in Central China. With many other cap tives, he was later shipped to Java to build airfields for the Jap Army. No pay, just enough food to keep them fit to work, killed if their health broke under the strain. Then, along with other Chinese termites—as the Japs called them —he was placed on a destroyer and sent to the Solomons.

Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, was the last airfield he worked on, switch ing to the building of defences and carry ing supplies after the American forces -started operations. Food becoming scarce, many Chinese were starved to death.

When Chang You and his four com panions were rescued by a US infantry division, they were pitiful sights, sick and starving; but weeks of medical attention restored their health.

Mr. and Mrs. Luxmoore, formerly of the Rabaul Hotel, New Guinea, are now residing at Clayfield, Brisbane.

Mr. J. W. Liston, after 19 years’ resi dence in Western Samoa, has decided to settle in New Zealand. During recent years, Mr. Liston has been the editor and publisher of the “Western Samoa Mail” (the only newspaper published in Samoa) and owner of a printing, ruling and book binding plant; and this business, with the premises (which include a residential flat) are now being offered for sale. Mr. and Mrs. Liston have been highly respected and valuable residents of Samoa for a long time, and their depar ture will create a definite gap in the Apia community.