"Bulolo" At The Invasion
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riIHE New Guinea Territories were repre- A sented, in the invasion of Europe, on June 6. by the new Burns Philp ship, “Bulolo” which, between 1938-39, supplied the nearest thing to a luxury liner the Territories had then seen.
A few weeks after the outbreak of World War 11, in September, 1939, the “Bulolo” was taken over by the Admiralty as an armed merchant cruiser, in which capacity she travelled 250,000 miles. She was in the Allied landing in North Africa, in November, 1942, and a recent despatch from a representative of the British press, date-lined “HMS Bulolo,” tells of her role in the opening of the second front in Europe.
Several Burns Philp ships have found a watery grave since the war began, but the “Bulolo,” although in the thick of things throughout, has had a charmed life.
Lieut.-Col. A. T. Newboult, recently Colonial Secretary of Fiji, and now in London, broadcast from the BBC in the “Calling the Islands” programme on June 14.