Lost In Jap Invasion
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News Wanted
ANYONE knowing anything of the fate cf John Samuel Talmage (or Tal madge), of Tomalabat Plantation, New Ireland, who has not been heard of since the Japs invaded New Guinea in January, 1942, is requested kindly to com municate with his niece, Mrs. Agnes Tem pleton, 16 Drayton Street, Sunshine W2O, Melbourne. It is rumoured that Mr. Tal mage (who was a veteran of Boer War and World War I) was taken prisoner, after he had been sending out information by radio but this is not confirmed.
News is anxiously sought by his relations.
Mr. H. E. Maude, Resident Commis sioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, was in Suva, Fiji, early in Mav on his way to the United Kingdom on leave.
He visited the Banaban community at Rabi Island, where they are now settled after moving from their home from Ocean Island which was made untenable, partly by Japanese destruction and partly by the