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ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE RE GERMAN POSSESSIONS IN PACIFIC.
RABAUL.
There is a man living near Rabaul named Otto Mouton, who it is thought may be of use to the Expedition, He is a Belgian who has been naturalised in Australia, and lives half a mile south east from the German Roman Catholic Mission, a large tin church near Herbertshohe. This man is known to Captain J. Strasburg, Pilot, "Berrima".
Mouton knows the country thrroughly, and it would be possible to send a boat in and pick him up. He is violently anti-German.
If Mouton is not available, there is a half-caste Samoan woman named Mrs. Parkinson, living at Parkinson Huk, Malapau, who would supply native guides.
September and February are very rainy months at Rabaul.
The road running round Simpsonshafen is bad; there are large gaps in it and culverts have gone, etc.
FREDERICH WILHEMSHAFEN.
Captain Williams of the S.S. "Westminster" reports that he passed Frederich Wilhelmshafen 8 August 1914 en route from Samoa. He was within three miles of the port; there were no men-of-war there then,
GERMAN SOLOMON ISLANDS.
The manager of Messrs Burns Phip's plantation at Buka Straits (King Albert Strait between Buka and Bougainville) could supply native pilots.
The road