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Fix this textSeptember 18, 1944
Fix this textVOL. XV. NO. 2.
Fix this textEstablished 1930
Fix this text[Registered at the G.P.0., JStadn^v/o a transmission by post as a newspaper ]
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Fix this text22 MEN MURDERED BY JAPS
Fix this textTHIS is part of a Memorial erected on Betio Islet, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, soon after it was
Fix this textrecovered by the United States Marines, in the bloody Battle of Tarawa, November, 1943. Tarawa
Fix this textwas immediately handed over to British officers of the Civil Administration; and the Union Jack
Fix this textand Stars and Stripes were flown side by side, and Americans and British collaborated in erecting the
Fix this textmemorial It reads:
Fix this text"In memory of twenty-two British subjects murdered by the Japanese at Betio, on 15th of October, 1942.
Fix this text“Standing unarmed to their posts, they matched brutality with gallantry, and met death with fortitude.”
Fix this textThe first five names are those of men well known in the Gilberts-R. G. Morgan, B. Cleary, I. R.
Fix this textHandley, A. M. McArthur and A. L. Sadd-and the others appear to be those of New Zealand soldiers-
Fix this textyoung men who were carrying out some form of garrison duty when the Japs invaded the Group. Messrs.
Fix this textMorgan and Cleary were Administration officials; Mr. MacArthur was a trader; Captain Handley was
Fix this texta well-known master-mariner, retired; and the Rev. A. L. Sadd was one of the best known and most
Fix this textloved LMS missionaries in the Central Pacific.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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