Soldiers still serve
NZPA-Reuter Kuala Lumpur Two Japanese soldiers lost in the jungle in World War II were still there helping Communist guerrillas maintain their weapons, said the Malaysian national news agency, “Bernama.” The agency quoted security officials as saying that the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya found the soldiers near the Thai border in 1948 and put them to work repairing war vintage arms and making bombs and booby traps.
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Press, 14 January 1986, Page 6
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