Patriots To Visit China

Nine Invitations to Fiji Chinese

Suva, Dec. 5.

NINE members of the Chinese com munity of Fiji have been invited to visit their homeland by the Over seas Department of the Chinese Govern ment. They are: K. W. March, F. S.

Kee, Say Tin, B. S. Seeto, Harm Nam, Mar Leong, Lee Wing Sing, Lum Hop and Lum Lock, and they expect to leave the Colony in order to reach Shanghai by June, 1946. All arrangements are be ing made by the Chinese Government, who will also meet the expenses of the visitors. The visit is being arranged in appreciation of generosity shown during China’s eight years’ struggle with Japan.

Mr. K. W. March has been chairman of the Fiji branch of the Kuo Min Tang for 17 vears.

In proportion to their numbers, the support of the Fiji Chinese community for China during the Japanese war has been immense. They have collected £50,000 for Chinese war purposes and supplied four fighter aircraft to the Chinese Air Force.

Major J. B. Reid, previously of the Bainings, New Britain, has returned to New Guinea, and is now at Kul Kul Plantation, Kar Kar, Madang.