Review: Australian Outlook, June 1959 p.153-154. In the first month of World War 1 the Australian Naval and Military Epeditionary Force occupied German New Guinea. The members of this force were not trained for the task of occupying a foreign country, nor were their officers familiar with the problems of colonial administration. How the "caretaker" administration, which continued until 1921, commanded garrisons and governed a society comprised of European enemy aliens, an Asian minority and a huge native population, is the subject of this penetrating study.