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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 March 1947Vol. XVII, No. 8

Missing Soldiers

p. 8 · Read in the full issue

rE UNITED STATES takes the great est care of and interest in their men who fought so well in World War 11, writes a New Guinea correspondent.

They have patrols, or parties of invest igation, carrying out the most intensive searches throughout New Guinea for missing men and all details regarding killed and missing. The slightest clue or information is thoroughly investigated.

Australia should follow their example.

Mrs. S. Sprott of the Melanesian Mis sion, has returned to her work on Ysabel Island, BSI. After the Jap. in vasion of the Solomons in 1942, Mrs.

Sprott took to the jungle where she was helped by faithful natives for months before she found her way to the Allied lines and was sent to New Zealand.