“WENT NATIVE”
GERMAN IN NEW GUINEA LONDON, August 31. Just before the war, Mr E. "W. P. Chinnery, the present Government Anthropologist in New Guinea, then a Papuan District Officer, issued permits to cross tho border to Herr Detzner, a German officer engaged in a boundary survey at the head of tho Waria River. Herr Detzner stayed in the bush throughout the war, and tried to work along the mountains to Dutch New Guinea. proved impossible, and ho lived amongst the back-country natives. After tho Armistice he came into Morobe. He and Mr Chinnery met again last week in Berlin, where Herr Detzner. is employed in tho Foreign Office. Herr Detzner was most hospitable, and showed Mr Chinnery round and asked him to read a paper to the German Geographical Society. “ I’d like to revisit New Guinea,” he said.
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Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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