Last Two Japs

Give Themselves Up At Saidor, NG

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Sept. 6.

TWO Japanese walked into the Govern ment post at Saidor, northern New Guinea, a few days ago, after having lived among the natives of that area for five years without being discovered. The natives sheltered them, and never once mentioned their presence to Government officers, who patrol the area regularly.

When they gave themselves up the Japs were barefooted, and their clothing was falling to pieces; but, apart from slight malnutrition, their health was good.

Speaking in Pidgin English they told their story yesterday to District Officer J. K. McCarthy, at Madang, where they were taken from Saidor by trawler.

They said they deserted their unit during the Japanese retreat and joined tribes in the Saruwaget Range, inland from Saidor. After several months they threw away their weapons and went com pletely native, hunting native fashion and growing native foods. A native medical orderly supplied them with quinine and other drugs. They said their friends had told them the war was over but they were too frightened to emerge from hiding until a faw days ago.

On Thursday, they will be flown to Manus to join the Japanese war criminals who are imprisoned there.

Seventeen Japs have now given them selves up in the Madang area since the war ended and, according to these last two, there are no more in hiding.