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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 11

Overseas Journalists in P-NG

p. 61 · Read in the full issue

TWO overseas journalists, one American and one Dutch, are about to write a series of articles on Papua and New Guinea.

Mr. Walter A. Simmons, repre sentative in Japan for the Chicago Tribune, will report on the United States Trust Territories before arriving in Papua and New Guinea.

The Netherlands journalist, Mr.

Alfred van Sprang, is one of the foreign correspondents of the Netherlands Broadcasting Co., and in addition to taking tape record ing for the Netherlands radio, will write articles for several Dutch newspapers. Since leaving Holland early in March he has visited Indo china and Manila, and will spend six weeks in Dutch New Guinea be fore arriving in P-NG.