"Master Blue "

{From the Brisbane “Courier Mail”) Affectionately known as “Master Blue,” Patrol Officer Harris, who was with the New Guinea Administration before the war, has become a legendary figure among New Guinea natives.

A West Australian, he was stationed at Lae when Japan entered the war. As the Japanese pushed south he was charged with the evacuation of civilians and Aus tralian troops from New Britain.

Later he took to the hills of New Guinea behind the Japanese lines to spot for our planes and furnish information about enemy troops movements.

The natives looked upon him as some thing of a god. He seemed to be every where and he seemed to know every thing.

Many officials refer to him as the “Lawrence of New Guinea.” But he was more unlucky than Lawrence. The Japa nese spent months trying to catch him.

They eventually succeeded. (Capt. G. C. Harris was reported killed in June, 1944.)