A DARING RESCUE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15243, 8 January 1943, Page 3

A DARING RESCUE

FROM JAP-OCCUPIED ISLAND. United Press Assn.- By Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 6. A United 'States submarine in a daring night operation rescued 22 persons, including missionaries, seventeen women and three children, from a Japanese-occupied island in the Solomons. The United Press correspondent at a South Pacific base says this was revealed at Admiral Halsey’s Headquarters. Japanese troops tried to capture the party which escaped to the jungle. The submarine was guided by radio messages to which it could not , reply lest it disclosed its whereabouts. The submarine reached a ' pro-determined rendezvous on schedule. and following a predesignated signal, the refugees went aboard. The Navy explained that had the plan failed, a second attempt would have been made the next night. The second venture might have had tragic consequences because the morning after the rescue, a largo Japanese force landed. The day after the party was taken aboard the submarine, they were transferred to patrol boat for passage to Australia.