Reminder
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Permanent Reminder of the Japs
The proposed Canadian Pacific rlines Trans-Pacific service be een Sydney and Honolulu, which is to have been carried on by jet
airliners, has been postponed until 1954, as the result of the destruc tion of a Comet in India, when en route from Britain''to Sydney.
The Tivoli Theatre in Apia, Western Samoa, was showing news reels of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June 10—just eight days after the event. This is some thing of a record for Pacific Island picture theatres which usually lag months, or even years, behind in movie picture distribution. The Coronation films attracted large and enthusiastic CtOWdS.
The Rabaul-Kokopo road for a great deal of its length is a narrow shelf between sea and hillside, and the hillside is riddled with Japanese tunnels.
This photograph was taken in April, 1953, from inside one of the tunnels that look out over the harbour to Mt. Vulcan. ft was used as a sub terranean workshop by the Japs and was complete with electric light and lathes; barges and other small craft were hauled into it from the harbour close-by, and repaired unmolested by Allied bombers. To-day, the tunnel is just an eerie cavern oozing mud and slime.