Aust. Forces Called ‘Vile Mercenaries’
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) NUI DAT, October 18. South Vietnamese soldiers in Phuoc Tuy province have been told to leave their ranks and turn their rifles “on the cruel Australians.”
Making the desertion call this week, the Viet Cong in Phuoc Tuy described the Australians as “mercenaries with vile and wicked intentions.”
Viet Cong psychological warfare specialists made the claims in a leaflet directed at Smth Vietnamese troops in
the Long Dien and Dat Do districts, a few miles southeast of the Australian task force base.
The one-page roneoed leaflet, commenting on a recent task force cordon and search operation in Dat Do designed to ensure security for the Vietnamese Presidential elections, claimed that the Australians “took advantage to steal watches, rings and other valuables from the people.” “The Australians despise the Vietnamese. They have come to the motherland and see you as vile flunkies and will kill you any time it pleases them,” the leaflet said.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31504, 19 October 1967, Page 17
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