AUSTRALIANS IN MALAYA
(Rec. 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, Feb. 20,
A Canberra message reports that the Army Minister, Mr. F. M. Forde, announced that 18,231 men of the A.I.F. were in Malaya towards the end of January. He said that he had no advice officially that any men had escaped from Singapore.
Instructions were given to General Percival to hold the island at all costs, and he understood that the /Australians fought right up to the time of the surrender. Therefore he believed that comparatively few would be successful in escaping.—8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 7
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