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SOMEWHERE IN. NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. 11,—I have been bunking in‘ lately with an armored unit—one of the outfits that. have tanks and fast armored ‘troop-carriers. Such troops are scattered all over one portion of Northern Ireland. These are the boys who will become the bata tering ram when the second front . finally opens. - After airplanes have blasted out the initial path, the armored corps will bore open a way for the invasion troops to follow. : This is the newest branch of the army. I am impressed with it, not so much with the weapons, for I know nothing about the various types of arms, but with the men themselves. There is an esprit de corps about the tank toons that corresponds somewhat with the spirit of the submarine service. It is based, I think, on two things—the fact that these men are destined for dangerous action, and the fact that the officers are 80 close to the men. Visit any tank field and you'll find all the officers in-coveralls. You can hardly distinguish them from the enlisted men. They ride their own motorcycles. They are ‘young, and alive. The gap between them
/ and their men is smaller than elsewhere in the army.
It’s Just Like Riding a Horse
I HAD THOUGHT that all tank’ commanders were officers, but this isn't true. An officer commands a battalion, or whatever they call it, of five tanks. He rides’ in the turret of one tank and directs them. But all the others are commanded by noncoms. One of them showed me all through his tank. It is a monstrous thing, and the firepower it carries is shocking. The men are fitted in so “tightly they can barely move, yet they have about as much to do as an airplane pilot. Everything is intricately mechanized. The tank is padded with soft rubber inside, yet in
still I bumped my head half a dozen times against hard, cold steel. : The boys say that siding a tank: is much like riding a horse. If you try to: hold yourself rigid against the bumps you wind up bruised and. bleeding: , You haye to learn to go limp, and just go via the tank as a rider goes with a horse. The space within the tank is so cramped that. even I had to squeeze in order to move around. I asked if the tank corps made a point of getting small men, but apparently it’s just the opposite. This particular tank doesn’t have a crew member, under six feet, | and there is one driver who weighs 200 pounds.
Who Are They Fooling?
YOU HAVE TO BE a real man to be in the tank corps. You don’t have to be big, but you have to be strong and tough. The vibration and bouncing and jiggling mside the tank are exhausting. You need terrific stamina. One tank commander said he drove more than 200 miles in one day, he and others tak-
‘ing turns at the controls.
If the exclusiveness of the tank corps could be drummed “into the men the way the marines drum it into their men, and if somebody ‘outside could dramatize and popularize the tank service to the public, the tank corps might soon steal glory even from the marines. Speaking of pride, one. of the badges of distinction has been taken away from the men of the armored outfits. Before-leaving America they had to remove their shoulder insignia so the Germans wouldn't be able to identify them. It is a small matter, as wars ‘go, yet it’s one of those small things that are important. One of the officers was telling me about it. He said both the officers and men were proud of their insignia, and he heels that the insignia should. be put back. In the first place the British troops right alongside them wear ‘their insignia. In the second place the Germans know what outfit it is anyhow. The night they landed in Ireland Lord Haw-Haw not only announced their arrival but told exactly what outfit it was, by number and everything.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell | Nussbaum
CAFETERIA TROUBLE seems to be enlivéning things out at the big Allison plant. From various worker sources, we get reports of dissatisfaction. Some complainants say the food's nothing to boast about; others say the principal trouble is the prices. The lunch room is run by a separate company, which operates similar ventures in other General Motors plants. Some” time back, they upped prices on most everything a nickel. Sandwiches; for instance, went to 20 cents. The second day after the price rise, we hear, great numbers brought their lunch. The next day some of the boys ordered up large quantities of food, then walked out without eating it or - paying for it. From then on, according to reports, the company has had gupras scattered all around the dining room, just in case of trouble. Some employees insist there have been “45 guards on duty in the dining room at one time.” The situation now seems to have shaken down into a war of nerves, with the patrons staying away in great droves, and the cafeteria people doggedly holding to their prices. in hopes, the boys will, get tired of seay-
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We'd H old It Upside Down
THE BLIND NEWSIE who holds forth in front of the ies Tower entrance probably has no idea how much free information he dispenses. Lots. of people stop and look over the headlines. on the paper he holds out-<without buying. They know he can't see them sneaking a look. Yesterday three business men were getting free samples of the news at one time, The big-cheats! . . . On the lawn in front of 414 E. 17th st, there are a couple of big baskets partially filled with mashed tin cans. Back of them is a sign reading: “You use ‘em, Uncle Sam wants ’em, clean ‘em and drop ‘em in here.” . . . “Better late than pever” department: We just
Washington
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Land cargo planes.are needed far more desperately than. flying boats. For that reason it is to be hoped that the government, will not stop with turning Henry J. Kaiser cargo flying boats. Probably in his case it was more practical to-put him on flying boats rather than on land planes. His works are adapted to building hulls. This astounding Kaiser organization also wiil now have an opportunity to demon- . strate how rapidly 70-ton flying craft can be built, and a good deal will be learned out of the experiment. “But it would be unfortunate if the attempt at super flying craft were allowed to rest on the flyingboat trail. The land plane is the thing. The idea that an airplane must have a hull Af it is to fly over water is like the idea of the early automobile, which was an imitation’ of a horse-drawn . buggy. The land plane is the thing. It is faster, because ‘it can be more completely streamlined. It is simpler manufacture. The upkeep on the hull of a flying ship is a large item. About. all that can be said in favor of it over landing a is: that no big rubber tires are needed.
Safet More Apparent Than Real
E“THE WAR Pan-American Airways was shifting to land planes for over-water flying. The
flying t has little modern justification. _ It was used in the beginning by Pan-American largely for two reasons. First, there were not adequate fields ‘in Latin America. The simpler procedure was to use flyirig- boats: that could be set down
on rivers and protected waters, thus using nature's
ready-made landing fields.
‘My Day
HYDE PARK. Monday —Because there is so much that I want to say, and I cannot always fit it into the
i column on. the preper day, I keep going back.
Last Friday evening I was in New York city for almost five hours, for my apartment served as a re-. union place for the members of the two summer institutes sponsored by the International Student ‘Service at Asheville, N. C, and Campobello, Canada. - Some of the students who were at the institutes there were able to remain in New York city for a
"few days. We had much singing
and gaiety, but also some serious discussion on the ‘personal stake of each boy and girl in the war.
Most of the boys Will soon be
in the service." I was interested to : ny-of the girls felt that; their contribution
left for the navy, Jim Tucker was presented with a gift of $1000 in cold cash by his former employees. of the secretary of state’s office, and other friends. When he tried to make them take it back, they walked out of the office on him.
Just Like a Drum Major
WHILE DIRECTING the Indianapolis Military band in a dignified classical selection Sunday evening at Garfield park, George Curtis lost his grip on the baton. It flew up into the air, and probably no one was more surprised than Mr. Curtis when he caught it. He went right on “threatening” the band with it, just like nothing had happened. . . . Incidentally, Bomar Cramer's rendition of a concerto, billed as a piano solo, became a duet when a super-duper katydid’ cut loose ‘just as Bomar started and tried to drown him out. . . . A reader writes to ask “what that thing is” on the head of Governor Colfax as depicted on the front page of Friday's Times. “From my viewpoint,” he writes, “it rather resembles one of our famous pigeons. Added for local color, no doubt.” You're right both times, dear reader.
Drop ’Em Here, Folks
THE CROWD pouring out of Keith’s theater late Saturday night was somewhat startled to see a youth —maybe 8 or 10 years old—sitting cross-legged like a tailof “of maybe "a Hid@u snake’ charmer; right in the middle of the sidewalk ee of the theater. He had some sort of a pockethook open in front of him and he was chanting: “Drop your old coins in here. Drop ‘your old ‘coins ‘in here.” He seemed to be doing pretty well, too.. And there's no reason he shouldn’t, either, what with people being softened up by collections of such things as aluminum, vic-
trola records, old newspapers, rubber and even tin
Old coins seem the logical “next” on the pro-’ . Wallace O. Lee Jr., 15, is apparently shoot-
cans. gram. . .
ing for Ww. O. L. Sr.’s boots, in so far as scouting is concerned. + Papa, you know, is the dean of scout
commissioners in the country. Junior has just earned his eagle scout rank. Next in liné are the palms.
learned that. before he You know papa. He's about to bust.
By Raymond Clapper
The second reason that Pan-American, found flying boats desirable was the safety factor. It was more apparent than real When ocean flying was new passengers felt safer in a flying boat than in a land plane. But your real safety over the ocean is not in the fragile little hull of a flying bodt. It is in the reliable engine maintenance and the flying skill which have given Pan-American such an astounding safety
record. That is what they depend on, not on being|!
able to stay afloat.
Let's Have the Sequel
FOR WAR PURPOSES, the safety factor is secondary, anyway. Speed and efficient use \come first. The advantage of the cargo plane is that it can pick
up its cargo anywhere inland and lay it down any-
where inland that conditions require.’
That advantage is lost with flying boats, which must operate only where large areas of protected . To make super
waters are available for take-off. flying boats effective for delivery of troops and supplies to the fronts where delivery has to be made,
super land planes will” be needed to complete the
haul. Surely they aren’t planning to use flying boats to get across Africa. The present Kaiser program of flying boats needs
to be mated by a similar program for super land cargo
planes.
The country and Washington have responded to the aggressive imagination of Kaiser-and it is all to
the good. This is not written in criticism, but on the
contrary is a vote for going on ‘with the. sequel as
quickly and on as extensive a scale as production fa-
cilities and: materials permit. The desperate situation
in Russia grows chiefly out of our inability to trans-
port sufficient weapons, and it emphasizes tragically the key ‘weakness of the allies, which 1s Hades
Sransportation tocilities,
By Blaanior Roosevelt |
lessly sukgiet that everything done for young people
today is unnecessary.
It. is a privilege to fight for your country and the world, but with that privilege must go the assurance that when the war is over, if you survive, you will|
have a part in creating the conditions under which you want to live.
To fant that we are now cblized te call out youth
to ‘this kind of sacrifice shows that some of us in different parts -of the world. failed to live up to the ideals to which we gave lip-service in World War 1 ‘after it came to an end. Perhaps we did not realize ‘that it meant ‘political 4nd economic changes, not only at-home but abroad.
“used, and perhaps it is worth while for them -to have
By Erie Pyle] AP
just climbing. around the tank while it ‘was standing|
Axis Each Other; T okyo Doing ‘As’ It Pleases.’
By ROBERT T. BELLAIRE United - Press Staff Correspondent : RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 11 (U.
P.).—The axis partners—Japan and
Germany—distrust each other thoroughly and the: Germans have vain-
tack on Russia, Before I left a Japanese concentration camp to teturn home, rela-| tions between .Japan and Germany were ; privately described in Tokyo as “unsatisfactory,” =’ There was every indication that each was closely , watching the other. : Germans in Japan were under almost the same surveillance as Americans and British before Pearl Harbor and they anticipate internment when heavy attacks are made against Japan or if a wave of sabotage ‘sweeps the country.
Resent Nazi Demands
Germany’s’ efforts to induce Japan to strike Russia in Siberia were resented in Tokyo. The Japanese warlords are determined to fight. the war according to their own plan. The Nazi plan was based on the
nese-Russian war would enable them -to conclude their own Russian campaign this summer and keep Japan so busy she would not go to war with the United States— thus impeding full American mabilization for war. Japan, however, now is making every effort to consolidate her po-. sitions in the Pacific against future attacks by the allies—or by Germany. . Japs Hang on to Speils
German efforts to swing Japan against Russia were started months before Pearl Harbor. But Japanese warlords todk the view that the Nazis merely sought a buffer to divide Russia’s forces— while simultaneously keeping Japan out of the south Pacific, on which, they believed, the Nazis had ‘their own designs. In Japan’s plans for development of the areas she has taken there has never been a mention of a specific German share in the spoils. Nor have the Germans been permitted any hand in the economic reorganization of. occupied China, German economic experts in Tokyo said ig) they found it af 2 commit the “Japanese to eoncesslons in occupied areas,
Ambassador. “In, Bad”
The Japanese were resentful of the “small army of German economic ‘experts who- ‘moved behind their armies in China. A Nazi effort to .deal independently with Wang Ching-Wei, puppet government leader of Shanghai, was unsuccessful, and the Japanese have since ‘referred to the German economists :as “vultures.” ; The German ambassador, Maj. Gen. Eugen Ott, got into an em-. barrassing: - position when two reputedly-close German friends were convicted at a trial of spying for Russia and sentenced to death.
commuted to life imprisonment but Ott again drew official displeasure for subsidizing several ‘secret societies. whose members ‘tried to influence Japan’s war policies.
Prays at Pagan Shrines
Ott’s embassy personnel of more than 300 also irritated the Japanese, who believed most of the men were spies, . Finally . Ott, seeking to regain Japanese confidence, made a good will tour of the country in April, praying on his knees at pagan shrines and Making more than 100 speeches. Observers say that eveivibing in Japan's history indicates that she will act only in her own interests, regardless of enemies or allies.
FIRE IN ROOM BURNS ONE SERIOUSLY HERE
Paul E, Mercer, 32, was in serious condition at City hospitaal today with burns. he received in a fire at ‘his. room, 910 N. Delaware st., last. night. Firemen said smoke was seen coming from Mr. Mercer's room] and when other roomers broke open the door they found him in a clothes closet badly burned. The room was badly damaged by flames. Firemen said’ the fire apparently |
HOLD EVERYTHING
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Parties Mistrust
ly tried to. hasten a Japanese at- |:
| double-barréled hope that a Japa-|-
|Dasch and Ernest Peter Burger, two
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| Kerlingen, New: York. city, ‘whose ‘ | husband, Edward, was .one of the|:
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EXPECT BIDDLE TO AGCUSE,
Press May Get Official Treason Charges Against 14.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 ®. P). —Atforney General Francis Biddle is expected to announce officially tomorrow in a press conference that treason and knowledge of treason charges will be brought against the 14 alleged confederates of he eight Nazi saboteurs. It was learned guthoritatively yesterday that treason and knowledge of treason charges would be brought against the 14, including six women, who allegedly harbored and assisted the saboteurs between their landings on the Long Island and Florida coasts and their appre-
agents. If convicted of treason, would face a. virtually mandatory sentence of death. However, the trial judge, at his ase can impose penalties of not 1 § than five ‘years imprisonment and not less than $10,000 in fines. |
atl. ws; Nosidiihvailable | ab
Available as witnesses agalist the confederates will be George John
‘saboteurs whose lives - were spared by President Roosevelt when hed, passed. sentence. Six died inthe district jail electric chair ‘and their bodies still lie at)’ Walter Reed hospital. One of these was Herbert Hans Haupt, ‘whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans’ Max ‘Haupt of Chicago, are among: those facing treason charges. Haupt’s ;uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Walter : Wilhelm Froehling, whose: Chicago home allegedly was to. be. the national headquarters of
* Includes Saboteur’s ‘Wife
'plices are: Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rich-|: ard Wergi- Chicago; Helmut Lein-|: er and Herman Anthony Cramer,|: both of New York city; Mrs. Maria |
saboteurs electrocuted; Mr. and Mrs. |!
Herman Kerkhof, New York city. - |! Under treason charges, “two wit= nesses’ to ‘each alleged act must]: testify during trial, or the accused must confess in open court, if the|
$400,000 USO DRIVE AT $345,000 MARK
Indiana ‘has now reached $345,000 in its progress. toward a goal of” $400,000 for the USO war fund during: spring. and summer campaigns.. « While the state’s quota is’ $832,000, ; Frank K. Zoll, state campaign director, ahticipates that an additional $432,000 will be subscribed in drives this fall. ; ‘Campaigns already ‘nave been |" | conducted or will start this month in ‘91 Indiana | cities, counties. Seventeen are scheduled this; fall,” among them the Indianapolis drive which will be included in the United War Fund campaign, et. 5 to 23.
Kaiser Instructe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. BJ. fr
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Harry Jacques, Chicago, and Ernest‘:
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. Scene in a native village in an ou: naval assault is under way, representi i ports .are anxiously awaited, for recs on the northeastern sector of the at:
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iying district. of the Solomon fslands, against which an allied the first attempt to regain territory won by tlie Japanese. Reire of the islands would definitely ease the Japanese pressure ilian theater and diminish the threat to allied south Pacific sea
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iree Boys Attend lite for Sister Who Saved Them. [REE LITTLE boys who were
oc ied from their burning home a8! March 28 will attend the fu-
| of their -hero sister to-
AD OW. | anette Mise, 8-year-old daugh-
if Mr. and ‘Mrs. Walter Mise, |’
yesterday in City hospital of ¢ received when she and a
wi: 1bor: rescued the brothers
the home, 1141 S. Kenwood
neighbor said Jeanette and
:- boys, Leo, 4; James, 2, and
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er Jr., l-year-old, had been ng around a jug of kerosene a heating stove. rvices and burial will take : tomorrow in ‘Bowling Green, the Mise family’s- former.
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8 Oppose Fish i in'N. Ys Sever, “Farley Groups In Delegate. Fight. *
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3 states en New York, Ohio, 13ka, Idaho, ‘and Arkansas. - 7+ York: —Rep. Hamilton Fish nationally prominent pre-war ionist, was opposed in the 26th ct, which is President Roosehome district, by. three opits for Republican renomina-
ually, interest in the New York iry was overshadowed today by ivnsof delegates to the Demo- ; eonvention Aug. 19 at which jernatorial candidate will be ed. this convention, President svelt and James A. Farley will in a battle over the selection - candidate, ‘Roosevelt backing tor James M. Mead and Farley ng State Attorney General J. Bennett. : io—Rep. Martin L. Sweeney ‘Cleveland, was opposed for rination | by Michael Feighan, accused: him. of pre-war 1solaim.
1 cknowledges ‘solationism
seeking the Democratic sena‘nomination, acknowledging pponents’: charge ‘that he was
| ‘e-war isolationist "but saying
was a dead issue. His chief nent was Foster May, a radio uncer. {a0 — . Senator John Fhomnas ‘Rep. Compton I. White (D)
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™ RATIONING ~ AGAIN TALKED
Necessity "Linked to Tank Car Supply by - OPC; Baruch Working Hard.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. P)). —Tnat knotty home-front problem —whether to: order nationwide gasoline rationing—was tossed into the official grist mill again today, but a final decision seemed as remote as ever. The office of petroleum coordinator precipitated further discussion with an announcement that diversion of thousands:of tank cars to the eastern _ shortage area “obviously” may cause" transportation problems elsewhere. ‘Deputy Petroleum = Co-ordinator ‘IRalph K, Davies reported, moreover, that “we must eontinue to call upon unrationed areas of the United States to give up tank cars and other ‘transportation fasilities, regardless of the effect upon their oil supplies.”
’ “Inevitable Consequence”
“it rationing results in those areas in consequence of this drain upon
ttheir transportation, then they will
have to accept it as an inevitable consequence of the war’. .",” he said. ! Prior to: ble: OPE had been expected there ‘would be.
tion of the rubber situation, and perhaps no’ action. until alter the November elections. © Davies’ remarks introduced anew the ‘possibility that conservation of the nation’s dwindling rubber supply might be supplanted. by -trans-.
* | portation shortages as the reason
for nation-wide gasoline rationing. ‘Midwest Pinch ‘Hinted
However, OPC experts thought the only area; likely to feel a transportation “pinch within the immediate future. is the Midwest. Oil ‘produced : there can be carried ‘into ‘the. East considerably: faster than . oil from Texas and
upon doing,” an OPC spokesman said, explaining that such apparent unfairness is justified by the acute shortage in the East. .
cars as can be obtained will bef..o taken ‘from the ‘Midwest area—as they will fom all ottier areas “of |; the nation. Meanwhile, 8 spokesman _ for Chairman * Bernard M. Baruch of the president’s ‘rubber. investigating ttee reported that the coms= mittee is “working very hard,” but
ty will. not disclose .the nature “of. its activities until a’ final report is sub-|+ 3 sraska—Rep. Harry ‘B. Coffee %
mitted to the White House. | TRAIN KILLS WOMAN, 67 VINCENNES, Aug. 11 (U. P)~ Police said today they: believed impaired eyesight caused the ‘death
who was killed instantly ‘when she stepped into the path of a Chicago
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OPEN AIR WARDEN SCHOOL
will ‘open at 7:30* p. m. tomorrow at School 20, Randolph st. and Pleasant Run parkway. Those wishing to at-| tend may contact” Jack Hendricks, 11228 Kelley st., ‘warden of district 14.
to Draft Cargo. Plane
roval of WPB and the Navy i=
from the industry] |” experts: te srr
proposal. Nelson, m bis fetstressed that Kaiser was to ty both-WPB and tle navy that :argo plane program would not rere with the presi TT saline. fa 6000)
to ‘work with
no- further discussion of the issue {until ‘President Roosevelt's special] - ‘| committee completes. its ‘investiga-
Oklahoma ‘and | this’ “we will insist]
Simultaneously, as many ; tank]
yesterday of Mrs. Martha Stone, 67, r—
A new school for alr raid wardens |
‘Undersecretary of War Robert P.} Patterson said last night in a radio dent’s “blue-{talk that whether additional planes
[Pacific Battle Scene One
Thought Fabulously -Rie In Gold Deposits.
WASHINGTON, au. 11 (U. B) —The Solomon islands, so-nam because they once were believed have furnished the gold: to at the fabulous temple of ‘King Solos mon in Jerusalem, still tribes of Melanesian head-hunit and cannibals.
The present scene of fieroe 1 tht ing between American i forces and Japanese island-k troops is a 900-mile long
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numerable ‘smaller ‘ones, which gether have an area twice that © Massachusetts. : These and other items of in mation about this war-torn of Melanesian islands—such as faet that they are subject to sev earthquakes—were revealed in a bulletin issued by the Nat Geographic society. : ; Some Gold Found in 1930 They were discovered by.a Sy ish expedition in 1567, and Spanish later attempt to eol them.
‘The Spanish first looked for but it was not until 1930 that gold was found there. Until the arrival of the Japan Tulagi was the capital of the ¢ and: today it is in the midst the fighting. : Tulagi harbor was the scerie other fighting in this war U.'s: navy planes ‘destroyed a: tion of a Japanese invasion 1 there a few’ days before the by of the Coral sea.-
Resist Civilization
‘The islands lie east of Guinea and ‘roughly: 1000 northeast of Australia—about a hour flight by bomber, * Most of ‘the 150,000 natives i resisted . Europesn civilization, 1 some tribes still engage in cann ism' and head-hunting expedit against rival natives. Great Britain annexed a part the islands 50 years ago, and Gers many owned part of the chain they. were mandated to Aus after the world war: For a long’ time the principal port of the islands was. gor piapt to work on: Australian sugat pl
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Has 2 Fine Harbors
. Later exports were copra ‘copra oil, used before the the Uhited States in making APS, candles and butter substitutes. - islands. also . provided sshells ‘|pearl buttons, ivory nuts for k buttons and knife. handles sandalwood for cabinet work. Near Tulagi is another fine ] or, that at Port Purvis. For a tin after the last war Great E considered making Purvis & Bags rivaling Singapore. : For airplanes there is a. site along the north coast of Gu alcanal island, ahout 20 miles & of agi. There is a grassy p which extends five miles where the country starts rising the 8000-foot mountains.
Islands. Almost Roadless. i On the south Guadalcanal. the ‘mountains rise perp p | from € ‘sea. ri of The' islands are almost, g
small, are Ja ountry is 2 force )
‘that an t to ‘who. could inland to the hills. The natives are warlike themselves but are: timid ine fronting ‘armed forces. They did not hinder the. Ja occupa tion, but persons. who.
as aid the layans and Burmese bec have Had most friendly 2 for nearly a century with traders and missionaries.
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