MALAYAN CAMPAIGN
ADMISSION BY JAPANESE (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 28. The Japanese admitted that they had 300,000 men in Malaya at the time it. was attacked instead of the 30,000 they were\reported to have used, said General A. E. Percival, in a speech at Hertford. General Percival said the Japanese made the admission as the result of the publication of his dispatch on the campaign, which he had written to “Vindicate the men’who fought there.” General Percival added that the Japanese admission that they had lost 87,000 men and 331 planes in the Malayan campaign meant that the allied soldiers who fought there could claim they did something to stop Japanese progress in the Far East.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 142, 29 March 1948, Page 3
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