Nuns From Ng Dedicate
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Memorial Hospital
From Our Brisbane Correspondent AMERICAN nuns (of the Order of the Holy Ghost) have dedicated a 100bed hospital on Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, to Australian and American troops by whom they were rescued from the Japs during the last war.
Members of the Order were taken from Hollandia and the New Guinea jungle in front of the advancing Japanese.
The hospital is the former Holy Spirit Hospital launched by the rescued sisters.
It will be called the American-Australian Allied War Memorial Hospital, with a special ward for American and Australian ex-servicemen.
The original New Guinea sisters, who started the hospital, have returned to their jungle missions.
General George Kenny, Allied wartime air commander in the South West Pacific, who visited Australia in September and inspected the hospital, said it would fos ter goodwill between Australia and America.