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The "Nukineo"-

An Incident Of 1942

Awtttt K-NOWN mariner nf the sSwe“aci fl T rln 0 e aptain W* Johnston, has protested to us con cerning a paragraph in an article written for the January issue of the “PIM” by Captain E. C. Vider. Captain Vider de scribed several aspects of the escape from U Pn?t A M S nr r P inlnvS

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U^og^^ U Mores a b n y d ?wlsloilow ing ‘Nukineo,’ with my engine hard pressed to keep up, when there was a smash in our engine-room. The ‘Nukineo’ steamed around us, but would not give us a tow, and then departed.”

Captain Johnston says: ‘‘Mr. Vider and his ship were not left at the mercy of the sea' The ‘Nukineo’ could not possibly have taken ‘Veiya’ in tow, as her own engine was playing up. I turned back,

and B ave them the course to Bramble Cay. and suggested to Mr. Vider that he t hi s sa ii s keep going. I then made for Daru and reported the matter S were sent out from Moresby’to see where J^ erb were -and the Dianes found ‘Veiva’ were behind one of the smln » or benmci one ot tne smail obtain Tohnston who at nresent is

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the suggestion that he would break one g p b a a^ th r e U r le s V p f to nelp anotnei snip in distress.

" * Sergeant J. R. Houghton recently re ceived his discharge from the AIF, and is headed back to New Guinea. Before the war, he was employed as a plantation manager in the Fead Islands by Mr. Lou Carson (lost on the “Montevideo Maru”>.

Sergeant Houghton served with the AIF in the Middle East.