DUMPING ALLEGED

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 130, 29 November 1945, Page 8

DUMPING ALLEGED

AMERICAN EQUIPMENT SYDNEY, November 27. The Americans are abandoning Paciific Island bases and arc dumping into the sea cr burning millions of pounds worth of sear, says a Sydney "Stira" correspondent, cabling from Rabaul. Some cf it is being sold to whoever can, take it away, but this is what Australian ofScsrs have seen in parsing through the Admiralties, Biak, Saidor, Finschhafen, Jacquinot Bay, Nadzab, and Lac: Admiralties: Two hundred Hellcat fighters (many still crated) dumped into the sea. Finschhafen. (New. Guinea):. Complete dental outfits in the sea; big pontoons loaded with jeeps putting to ssa with a bulldozer aboard to push them off;'mobile radio outfits in four-wheel caravans dumped into the sea; small vessels burned in harbour; huge stocks of clothing burnt in bulk. Jacquinot Bay (New Britain): Bargeloads of jeeps tipped into the sea. Nadzab (New Guinea): An outbreak of drunkenness among natives traced to big dumps of tinned beer which were "bulldozed into the earth. Lac (New Guinea): Warehouses full of photographic equipment and instruments abandoned. Saidor (New Guinea): Tons of food dumped into the sea or left on the wharf. The correspondent adds that the destruction is staggering.in its scope and thoroughness, but the American argument is that if the stuff were shipped home it would merely mean shifting junk heaps from one place to another.