Ve-Day Announced In
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Pidgin
WE have received a newspaper curiosity in the shape of the issue of May 9, 1945, of “Pisin Pepa”—the journal of the Pacific Islands Regiment ; the New Guinea Battalion which has rendered such excellent service in the war against the Japanese.
The “Pepa” is in Pidgin, of course, and this is its VE-Day number, in inch-high letters across the page is the historical heading “Germany i pinis” (Germany finished). Here is the first paragraph;— “Big pela pait bilong German wantaim mi pela i finis ologeta. Nau nambawan bilong Germany i dai pinis mipela kilim em.” (Big fellow fight belong German one time me fellow he finish altogether. Now number one belong Germany he die finish me fellow kill him.) Like the famous announcement in Pidgin, made after the capture of Rabaul in 1914, this document should have some historical value.