War's Over But

[?]ot The Firing

Mthough the war has been over 17 years, wartime bombs and (lets are still going off in the jth Pacific.

Kokopo, New Britain, re itly, residents were awakened s night by the noise of a loud plosion near Kanabot Plantation iere fires had been burning for reral weeks. The explosion, >ught to be caused by a 500 lb mb going off, shook Adminis tion houses but did no damage.

Earlier, in the Gilbert and Ellice ands Colony, a party of local ridents were having a picnic at nriki, near Tarawa, when war ie bullets shot out of a fire they d built.

One lodged in the arm of Mrs. iroline Edwards, wife of the tio Cinema proprietor, and she lished in hospital, where the diet was extracted the following y- In Honiara, the Red Cross is lying for artificial arms for a dlona man who was injured last arch when he visited Tenaru and und a live shell which he tried take apart.

When it exploded his arms were jrned, his right hand was lashed and one of his legs was oken. His forearms had to be nputated.

The artificial arms are fitted with ljustable hooks to pick things up.