Still Waiting For Their Ship To Come In

A dream of almost unlimited native migration from Rabaul (New Guinea) to the United States has just about faded into oblivion but not quite.

IT all started when a young native labourer rejoicing in the name of Leonard started a submarine cult. (PIM, Sept., p. 135).

His original story that a sub marine was coming to take them to America, was changed in November into one that 12 American ships were on their way on a similar mission. The natives who followed his cult claimed that the submarine had to turn back because more than it could carry wished to make the trip.

However, only a handful of people

waited for the ships compared with 300 submarine waiters of three months ago.

A Government patrol broke up the submarine cult, and Leonard escaped into the nearby Bainings.

Employers along the New Britain coast have felt the effects of the ship cult and have lost good em ployees, which has made it obvious that the cult still has a firm hold on some of the natives. But many natives who had doubts about the submarine will have nothing to do with the 12-ship story.