Guadalcanal
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Last Jap Captured On
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Oct. 30.
PROBABLY the last Japanese soldier in BSIP was captured on October 26, on Guadalcanal. He was an amaz ing figure long matted hair, clothing in shreds, his feet in bundles of rags bound with telephone wire.
He was ambusned by native constabu lary on the outskirts of Honiara.
His worldly goods were two water bottles, a broken American bayonet, a Japanese trenching shovel. He has been living a solitary Crusoe existence in the Guadalcanal jungle for 18 months.
He belonged to the Japanese 19th En gineer Regiment in Bougainville but he missed repatriation by going bush. He was subsequently captured by native troops and brought to Guadalcanal, but he escaped again, narrowly eluding pre vious capture several times after raids on native villages.
Sir Arthur Richards, who was Governor of Fiii, 1936-38, appears in the last Birth day List as a Baron. He is at present Governor of Nigeria.