Another Caledonian
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Escapes
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Mar. 18.
ANOTHER Caledonian soldier has escaped from an Italian prison camp and reached the Allied lines safely.
He is M. Henri Payonne, formerly on the staff of the Noumea College de la Perouse. M. Payonne, who had taught in English schools and had—for a Frenchman —an unusual knowledge of and liking for the English and their literature, joined the Free French Army at the first opportunity and was captured in Libya. He is now in Algiers. His wife, an Englishwoman, is living in Noumea.
Rev. Wilfred F. Paton, a well-known Presbyterian missionary of the New Heb rides, who was compelled, owing to ill health, to return to Australia in May, 1943, and who has .had a temporary charge at Evandale, Tasmania, is now recovered. He and Mrs. Paton hope to return to Ambryn by the middle of 1944. , r , . an yo ne has any information con t*lo fate John Downs, of Bay, Kokopo, Rabaul he is re es^ d ir 7 t °TT CO^ m «^ 1C + te T 3 w i tl l / r^f rs ' M ‘ I f ea th Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria, who is urgently seeking news, Mr - Downs, at the time of the Japanese invasion, was employed by T. C. Wee & Co.’s sawmills at Adler Bay, and nothing has been heard of him since.