GERMANS IN BRITISH NEW GUINEA
Report By Natives (Received May 23, 11.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 23. Before the Japanese evacuated,it, German soldiers were in the Yelbeck area of British New Guinea, 50 miles northwest of Alexishafen, according to natives. This information was brought back by an Australian patrol which reconnoitred Yelbeck, It is thought that the Germans may have been officers stationed at German misisons who came out in their true colours when the Japanese invaded New Guinea. In view of their long association with these missions, it is considered unlikely that the natives, could have been mistaken in their identification of German soldiers. Yelbeck is now clear of Japanese, who left the mission church in partial ruin.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 202, 24 May 1944, Page 7
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118GERMANS IN BRITISH NEW GUINEA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 202, 24 May 1944, Page 7
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