JAPAN'S ESPIONAGE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13647, 21 May 1942, Page 3

JAPAN'S ESPIONAGE

lT \VORK KI) 1X peace #V 11 ____ . .. doubtful if there is any “It any reef in the northto the Japanese. err ‘ information is very valu- ** U (he . n now. For years a duty & 10 . flt on Japanese steamer ran ;::l!e t between Truk, in the Caro:efu!2r uabaul, in British New I®* ?r ° U a P ; d even occasionally to Gfiine : oreC bv, in Papua- She never F° rt M “carry any cargo, but nok^ ed ‘ . , verV much about her. * *£? ,mn *">* >" qea= the Truk-Rabaul supply 5011 , pcam e enormously valuable to iW f D The invasion fleet -crgressois. 1 cashed resistance at Rabaul conquered the former capital * from Truk. And now that C3Dl ' ha£ become the centre of Raba ’! operations against New e3enl : a tlie Japanese holding force 'Teing supplied from Truk. Per- : n ow we can understand why !3PS ljttle steamer painstakingly tied that route for year after ‘ in all sorts of weather condi- ■ T]ie cr ews always mixed freely I Hi longshoremen when in port at I Rabaul When the attack was made, ; , hs nffer the steamer had made ; :llast visit, there was every evii J eßce that the defence set-up was op en book to the attackers. Other ;; eas v little Japanese freighters made similar passages usually withc!]t cai .go—to the Gilberts and Solo- ] r , onsi w here attacks have since been j nade ’” Mr G. A. Johnston, in the 1 Melbourne “Argus.” •