Rabaul Suffers Unpleasant

Conditions

Rabaul, Sept. 2.

Conditions in Rabaul are ex edingly unpleasant. There has been ) rain for 4 months. Tanks are apty, gardens are dying, There is ick dust everywhere, and lorries

now are carting water from Admin istration wells near Toboi and from the wells at the coconut-crushing mill. Fortunately, this water seems good and in abundant supply. There have been deluges of rain lately at Lae, and over the Trobriands- Samarai area, but there is not here one sign yet that the clouds are

drifting this way.—

R.W.R.