Death Of Mr. A. Paatsch

THE death occurred in Manly Hospital, Sydney on November 17, of Mr. A.

Paatsch, who was well known as a merchant in Rabaul, New Guinea, before the Jap invasion. Mr. Paatsch had re tained his German nationality; and, when World War II became serious, he was one of those removed from New Guinea to a prison camp in Australia, where he remained until after the end of World War 11. He wished to return to New Guinea; but Australia would not allow it, so he lived very modestly in Sydney during 1946-48. Mr. Paatsch went from Germany to German New Guinea about 1911; and was interned between 1914 and 1918. He was one of those unfortunate Germans who, although not interested in Germany’s foreign policy, had their lives moulded by it, because they would not give up German nationality. Mr. Paatsch spent more than ten years of his life in internment.