North Cache News | 1945-12-28 | Page 7 | Australian Girls Loved and Left on Jungle Isle

Australian Girls Loved And Left on Jungle Isle LONDON. Two fur-coaled Aus-! Aus-! tralian girls harkened to the promises prom-ises of American sailors on a Liberty Lib-erty ship and found themselves on jungled,. enemy-inhabited Bougainville Bougain-ville a combat zone. 1 The two girls were Rosalie Lyttel-ton, Lyttel-ton, single, and Mrs. Marjory Smith. They went aboard ship with their seamen friends, the ship sailed, and they were hidden in the hold. Rosalie Rosa-lie told this story: "One night we were put off on an island by two of the sailors, who told us to wait for them until they returned. "We waited until 1 a. m. and it was pourin'-down rain but they didn't come back. "Then an American Seabee found us. He told us we were on Bougainville Bougain-ville and got us some food. "A bunch of the Seabees kept us in the jungle. We were there three weeks. "We hid In the jungle, and swam In a stream and washed and stitched the men's clothing. Then one night an Australian military policeman found us. "Later we were sent to Lne (New Guinea), where we arranged to pay our passage back to Australia. "