Isolated Tahiti
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Papeete, July 16.
THESE islands have become among the most isolated places on earth.
I have been told that the seaplane bases on both Bora Bora and Aitutaki— now of no strategic value—are to be abandoned.
Our February mail from the States has gone astray. A part of the March mail has trickled in, but nothing at all since.
The last “PIM” we have seen is the March number. Mail from New Zealand comes frequently, via steamers going for phosphate to Makatea.
Could we muster sufficient strength of character to hurl our radio receivers into the deep sea outside the barrier reef, we should be really happy. We could follow world events by reading the campaigns of Nebuchadnezzar. That old scoundrel’s bitumen fire-balls were quite as efficient against the flimsy wood and thatch of
city slums as is jellied petrol. His bag of trapped and immolated women and children was, probably, as satisfactory as in our present period of moral righteous ness.