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Letter written by Seeto Yook Shui to his brother Seeto Yook You

Date
1945-10-21
Place
Rabaul
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Author
Seeto, Yook Shui
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9yM0qVA9
Item number
zPvlALQwpb0qd
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In copyright – life of author(s) plus 70 years. Research & study copies allowed. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Letter written by Seeto Yook Shui to his brother Seeto Yook You on 21 October 1945, with translation by Daniel Yung and David C L Seeto, 22 June 2009. Copy of an original letter by Seeto Yook Shui in traditional Chinese characters, with accompanying English translation by Daniel Yung and David Seeto, 2 PDF files.
Seeto Yook Shui was a Chinese businessman, a tailor by training, who lived in Wau, Papua New Guinea with his family when the war in the Pacific broke out in December 1941, ending up at a Catholic mission on Yule Island before eventual evacuation to Australia by ship from Port Moresby.
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