More Japs Discovered in

New Guinea Presence Revealed by Inter-Village Feud

From a Special Correspondent EMACIATED, ragged, and suffering from beri-beri and tropical ulcers, three diminutive Japanese arrived in Rabaul from Madang recently under escort. They had hidden in the Bogad jim area since the war ceased.

One said he was a doctor, another one was an electrician, while the third stated that he was an ironworker. The “doctor” said they were making for “soda water” (he could speak a limited amount of Pidgin English, which he said the kanakas taught him), and it may be that their salt supply had run out.

He said that they had built a large garden and grew root crops and an abundance of tropical fruits, etc.

Native police think that they were hidden away by natives and that when inter-village factions quarrelled over some other matter, vindictive natives re ported the Jap’s presence to Yali, in fluential ex-AIB sergeant-major, whose widespread propaganda is being used by the Administration.

The 105th US Army Hospital now dis banded has handed over to the French Oceanic Institute, Noumea, a library of between 4000 and 5000 English books, which the Institute is making available to New Caledonian residents who are able to read English. The library will be a boon to Noumea’s ex-Australian resi dents.