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Maru" Victims In Adelaide

A MEMORIAL service to prisoners of war and civilian internees who lost their lives when the Japanese trans port, “Montevideo Maru," on which they were being taken from Rabaul to Japan, was sunk by Allied action in June, 1942, was held in Adelaide on Sunday, November 18.

When the women and children were evacuated from New Guinea early in the war, a number of Adelaide women, whose husbands remained at their posts, formed themselves into the New Guinea Women’s Club, with Mrs. Champion Hosking as president. These women have only re cently received information that their husbands were lost in the “Montevideo Maru.”