TORPEDOED SHIP
AUSTRALIANS LOST
Prisoners And Internees From
Rabaui
N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 10.30. CANBERRA, this day. Carrying 545 Australian prisoners of war and 208 civilians from Rabaul, the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed near Luzon about June 22, 1942, and was a total loss. The Minister of External Territories, Mr. E. J. Ward, who announced this in the House of Representatives, said there were 316 civilians, including Administration officials and missionaries who had been at Rabaul and other parts of New Guinea who had not been, accounted for. Mr. Harold Page, a brother of Sir Earle Page, who was Government Secretary and deputyAdministrator of New Guinea at Rabaul, was among the number missing. Mr. Ward said an investigation in Japan had confirmed the Government's fears that the majority of the Australian prisoners of war and internees captured at Rabaul and still missing had lost their lives at sea.
A roll which contains the names of personnel aboard the Montevideo Maru is being translated in Japan. There is a total of 1053 persons to be traced.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 5
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