Sepik Mouth
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Barge Wrecked Near
From Our Own Correspondent
Madang, Sept. 30.
A N ex-Army LCM-type barge :X carrying 30 Chimbu natives to Kar Kar Island was recently /recked on a reef near the mouth f the Sepik River after drifting rom the vicinity of Dylup, near ladang.
The barge, recently purchased by ioconut Products, was in charge f a half-caste and had in tow a ghter which was being taken to lar Kar for a load of copra.
It is understood that little hope held of recovering the barge, but le lighter has been salvaged by le Administration trawler Koro, ad has been brought back to [adang with the natives, who oked in sorry condition after their lur days of exposure.
A writer in Sydney Morning erald of October 5 is responsible ir the statement that the Austra m armed services are busily re itablishing the Coast Watchers— ie intelligence organisation of lands men which did so much to ;lp American-Australian opera ms after the Japanese invaded e South Pacific in 1942.