Reburial Of Servicemen

At Honiara, Bsi

Suva, Dec. 4.

rE reburial of a number of Fijian soldiers and other allied Service men who died during the Solomons campaign, was carried out on December 1, at Honiara, Guadalcanal.

The bodies, which had been previously buried at the American cemetery on Guadalcanal, were those of Lance- Corporal Tevita Rabor and Privates H.

Levy, Akilio Kadrate, Rusiate Nacanieli and Luke Delana, of the Fijian forces, and Wilhelmas Van Wouw, a Dutch sea man, Don Kem Chow, a member of the Chinese Labour Force, Knut Larsen, a Norwegian merchant seaman, and one unknown Allied serviceman.

An impressive service, conducted by the Rev. Father J. Wall, was held in the evening sunlight, and full military honours, including the firing of three volleys and the sounding of the Last Post and Reveille by buglers, were furnished by detachments of the Protectorate Armed Constabulary.

The coffins were covered with Union Jacks and wreaths. Mats were placed under the caskets of the Fijian soldiers.

The Resident Commissioner (Mr. O. C.

Noel) and a large number of local resi dents attended the re-burial, which was made necessary by the closing of the American Armed Forces cemetery, from which all American bodies have been re moved for re-burial in the United States.

Mr. A. G. Andrews, of Pacific Islands Trading Co., San Francisco, became an American citizen by Naturalisation on November 21, 1947. Before going to America and establishing his now pros perous business there, Mr. Andrews was a Burns Philp executive in Fiji.