KILLED ON PATROL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 5

KILLED ON PATROL

JAP WOMEN SOLDIERS (Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 1.30 p.m. SYDNEY, May 18. Two young Japanese women, dressed in military uniform, have been killed in a clash between American and Japanese patrols in Dutch New Guinea. The women were members of an enemy combat party encountered near the Allied-held Hollandia airfield. The American soldiers said that until they examined the Japanese casualties, they did not realise that women were among.the patrol. The survivors .of >■ the enemy party were scattered by the Americans' fire. It is now believed that they may have included other Japanese girls. Further stories of Japanese brutality are told by two men and two women Dutch-Eurasian planters at Hollandia, who have been rescued after two years' captivity. The women were subjected to insults and the men worked like slaves. All were practically starved. They were memebrs of the Brouwer family. A fifth member of the party, who is the husband of one of the women, and American airmen were carried off by Japanese as they fled from our invading forces three weeks ago. _^__^_____