NO SURRENDER.
JAPANESE DROWN THEMSELVES,
NEW YORK, January 21. Hoav 200 Japanese soldiers walked into the sea and drowned themselves Avas told by Colonel Leroy Hunt, aa no led the victorious assault by the United States Marines'*, against Guadalcanal* last August. The Japanese Avere surrounded and apparently preferred drowning to surrender. “I just sat under a palm tree and watched them,” he said. “It was hard to believe, even though I saw it.” The Japanese were veterans of the East Indies campaign, avlio ‘had been scat on a flanking movement to trap the Americans, byt a counter-flanking moA'oment trapped them. Colonel Hunt said the Americans were slightly “jittery” at first, but they soon found that the Japanese Avere no super-men, overcame their “jitters” and beat the enemy at their own game of jungle fighting.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 88, 23 January 1943, Page 3
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