WELFARE FACILITIES IMPROVED

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14172, 24 September 1946, Page 3

WELFARE FACILITIES IMPROVED

OCCUPATION frORCE IN JAPAN London, Sept. 22. The Daily Herald correspondent who has been visiting the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, in his second dispatch, states that welfare facilities have been ■considerably improved since the British forces arrived in Japan,- but still leave something to be desired by comparison enjoyed by the Americans. If members of the 8.C.0.F. want to listen privately to 'radio programmes it costs them five times as much to buy a radio set as it costs American soldiers. The British non-fraternisation

plan is not working in some areas and threatens, to become a major problem. . . British troops feel that more progress should be made with the 'plan to permit wives of married men to come to Japan. Clothing and .ration scales appear to vary considerably. Some units are badly supplied. <

are well clothed and fed, but others • The correspondent suggests that more British servicewomen should be sent to Japan, that there should be more facilities for mixing by Americans and British, better recreation facilities; a larger supply of beer and more 'publicity in Britain for the force.