PORT MORESBY. A GROUP OF CHINESE WHOSE AGES RANGE FROM 10 MONTHS TO 70 YEARS WALKED 500 MILES ...

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Accession Number 014364
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made Papua: Port Moresby
Date made 2 March 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

PORT MORESBY. A GROUP OF CHINESE WHOSE AGES RANGE FROM 10 MONTHS TO 70 YEARS WALKED 500 MILES FROM WEWAK AN HOUR AFTER A JAPANESE CONVOY WAS SIGHTED. PICTURE SHOWS 61 YEAR OLD MING YEE, ENGINEER OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOONER "THETUS" AT WEWAK. WITH HIM IS YOO MANG, 12 MONTHS OF AGE. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).