Jap War Graves Mission
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Tour Ended at Manus
THE Japanese War Graves Com mission, which left Manus for Tokio on March 6, collected the remains of 5,093 Japanese war dead, and has taken their ashes back to Japan. The burial-grounds from which the remains were recovered were marked in each case by a simple cube of stone, on which it was recorded that war dead had been removed from the site. The mission’s tour started on February 1.
On March 6 the mission’s final religious ceremony was attended also by local residents at Manus.
In a farewell message to the Administrator of Papua and New Guinea (Brigadier D. M. Cleland), the chief of the mission and the
captain of the ship Taisei Maru ex pressed appreciation of the assist ance and co-operation of the Ad ministrator and his officers, adding: “Thank you very much. We wish you health and happiness.”