FIRST BOMBS ON RABAUL
e | WHAT THEY CONTAINED E I .11 (Rec. 12.40 p.m.) Sydney, This Day. 1 1 Australian beer bottle tops, used i- j razor blades, scrap iron and old nails i were enclosed in the first bombs drop--1 \ ped by the Japanese on Rabaul, accord- _ I ing to a story told by a woman whose i ! husband is employed at Rabaul. She - added that a male evacuee has a piece t of scrap iron from one bomb with the ; words ‘Thank you Mr Menzies” scratchs i ed on it. The steward on one boat doing a c: regular run to Rabaul from Australia , kept bottle tops and sold them to the Japanese. She was in Rabaul when the ' raid began. Chinese merchants just » walked out and left their businesses, j After the first raid the people lived in air raid shelters most of the time till , { they were evacuated. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 February 1942, Page 5
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