French Observer At Bikini
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rpHE American Government has invited A the French Government to send official observers to be present at the atomic bomb experiments which will take place in the months of July and August at the atoll of Bikini.
The French Government has appointed M. Parodi, French Ambassador, M.
Frederic Joliot-Curie, member of the In stitute and high commissioner to the Commission for atomic energy, and Pro fessor Pierre Auger, director of higher education, to observe the tests.
Back in Suva, Fiji, after many adven tures, is Mr. Mark White, who was ac companied from New Zealand 'by Mrs.
White. Mark enlisted in the RAAF early in the war, and was stationed in Rabaul, New Britain, at the time of the Japan ese invasion. In company with another ex-Fiji resident, Mr. Jim Peterson, he escaped into the New Britain jungle, and eventually reached Australia, Mr. Arthur McConnell, who was born in Taveuni, Fiji, 69 years ago, and lived there until 1935, died in Sydney in May.
He is survived by several daughters—one of whom is Mrs. Harness, of Taveuni— and a son.