Samoan Boys Fight On

Both Sides

Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA. June 6.

WHEN World War II broke out a number of Euronesians—the chil dren of Germans who had settled in Western Samoa—were living in Ger many and, in spite of Hitler’s much publicised racial prejudices, a number of these Euronesian boys were recruited for the Nazi armies. Only recently word was received here that two of them—a son of Mrs. Matthes. who was an officer in the Luftwaffe, and a son of an old and well known German planter. Mr. E. Retzlaff— have been killed in action while fighting on the Russian front.

As in the last war, boys of Samoan blood are fighting and dyin£ far from their homeland, in the two opposing armies in Europe.

Dr. Stephenson, of the Methodist Mis sion. who is on furlough from Fill, will be in charere of the church at Whangarei (NZ) for three months.

Miss Lila Vatiram Ramsamuj. a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsamui. of Suva.

Fiii. is row Matron of a large military hospital in India.

The death occurred at Williamstown, Victoria, in June, of Mrs. Lucy Bull, wife of the Rev. C. S. Bull, of Fiii. Mrs. Bull had been associated with her husband in missionary work among the Melanesians in Fiji, by whom she was much liked.

Surgeon-Lieute-nant A. Fagot has been appointed Condominium Medical Officer for the Northern District of the New Hebrides.

Pastor Nagel, of the Lutheran Mission, has made application for permission to resume work in the island mission field of New Guinea.