MALAYA JAPANESE TO BE MAROONED

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 306, 25 September 1945, Page 7

MALAYA JAPANESE TO BE MAROONED

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

(Received September 24, 7 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. General Dempsey, commander of the Fourteenth Army, proposes to evacuate 80,000 Japanese from Malaya to lonely islands, mostly uninhabited, where (hey will be marooned, probably for at least (wo years, says the “Daily Mail’s” .Singapore correspondent. General Dempsey, in an interview said: “The first job I tackled was the means of getting rid of these people altogether from Malaya. I have just completed plans for shipping the whole bally lot to the Rliio group of islands south of Singapore. They will be dumped on the beaches and left there. I am allowing them IGoz. of rice a day, which should reduce their’ waist-lines a little.

“The Japanese will be able to start a brave new world for themselves, but will be unable to barm anyone outside. They will be completely marooned, without an army, money, or any of the loot they ■took into the concentration areas from

Singapore. I am giving them shovels, gardening fools and vegetable seeds. They can dig or .starve. Each month, we will dump their-rice ration on tlie beaches. The work of transhipping the Japanese to the islands will begin almost immediately iu sampans.