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Coco-Cola Is War Damage

—But Not Looting

rRRITORIANS who still hope that looting may be added to the list of ... war damage for which compensation will be paid by the Commission, might be interested in the case of a Mr C J Priebe, formerly of Darwin.

Mr. Priebe stated in September that, before the first air-raid on Darwin, he packed seven cases oi valuable crystal, nne linens, silverware and household treasures, but was unable to obtain ship ping space. However, he forwarded an inventory to the War Damage Commission when he was forced to come south.

Although he did not receive an im pressment order for any of his goods and, although none of them would have been use in cam P life - he has proof that the cases were opened, and the contents disappeared completely into min air.

The War Damage Commission advised him, as they invariably have done in pnHtLrf a f 6S ’ that he • is at P res ent not entitled to compensation, as this is “in war damage —but that they have noted the particulars in case any scheme Zlv £s Uiatod t 0 Cover other than direct Last month, says Mr. Priebe, a US bomber inadvertently dropped cases of champagne, beer wine and Coco-Cola on an Adelaide suburb. Residents whose property was damaged have already been compensated . Why, then, should nJt Darwins citizens be given promnt and sympathetic consideration? P pt and Mr. W. D. Mason, who was managing' Sangara Plantation, Papua, under the direction of the Australian New Guinea Production Control Board, died in Svd hnr, °rppt U fi USt \ 4, of black water fever. He had recently returned from Papua.

Mr. H. R. H. Chalmers, the genera 1 manager of the Bank of New zllfand visited Fiji in early September. ’