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DOQUiyiENT TAKEN FROM JAP A historic document, much bespeckled with insect bites,'-telling how the ,Stewai*t Group of Islands .^Sikaiana, Faore, Manduiloto, Barena, and IMatuavi) of the Pacific was taken over jby Great Britain 46 years ago, has come into the possession of the Government under circumstances due to the ..war. • The. document, which .was taken by an American serviceman from a coat pocket. of a Japanese somewhere in the Pacific,, reads as follows: — "PROCLAMATION; In the name of Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom. of • Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, by George Northmore Arthur Pollard, Captain, of the Royal . Navy, commanding Her Majesty's ship 'Wallaroo.' . Whereas I have it in command from Her Majesty
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1943, Page 6
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