Highlights of Pacific

War

FW people realise the immense diffi culties and great risks that are being taken by the Allies in the Pacific War, said Mr. Henry Keyes, war correspondent for the London “Daily Express,” in an address to the Pacific Islands Society on May 17.

Mr. Keyes has been with the Americans in the Pacific for two years and has a profound admiration of the work done by our Allies in this area. He described vividly the landing of US Marines on Guadalcanal, BSI, in August, 1942, and their subsequent taking of Henderson Airfield against superior Japanese forces.

The landing on Tarawa by units of this same Marine Corps, after great sacrifices, over a year later, is considered by Mr.

Keyes to be the epic of the Pacific war to date.

The Rev. J. D. Bodger, of the Anglican Mission, Papua, left Australia in Novem ber for furlough in England. Arrange ments were made for him to travel via America, where he undertook a lecture tour under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The New Guinea campaign and Mr. Bodger’s contacts with the US troops provided him with much valuable information for the American people. The New Guinea Mission will also benefit financially, and the visit should help greatly towards co-operative work in the Pacific after the war.