Subject	World War, 1939-1945–Sources
	Papua New Guinea–History
	Chinese letters
	War stories
	Personal narratives
Category	4. World War II
Author	Seeto, Yook Shui
Current Holder	State Library of New South Wales
Date	1945-10-21
Series Number	9yM0qVA9
Item Number	zPvlALQwpb0qd
Access Rights	Digitised
Rights	In copyright – life of author(s) plus 70 years. Research & study copies allowed. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Country Of Origin	Australia
Place	Rabaul
Language	Chinese
	English
Description From Source	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.
Related Resources	https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27938697
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/TMNCQGD6/