Pacific

Islands

Monthly

July 17, 1945

Vol. Xv. No. 12.

Established 1930

l ßegistered at the G.F.0., by post as a newspaper ]

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Shangri-La

An aerial view of the mysterious valley in the Oranje Mountains of Dutch New Guinea where two men and a woman (all Of the US Army) lived for six weeks after they had survived a plane crash on May 13. No Europeans had visited the region before. (See story page 10 this issue.) This valley, with its intensive similar to others discovered further south in the Mandated Territory