RESCUE FORCE FOR TIMOR
SYDNEY, September 6. A force of Australian troops has embarked from Darwin to rescue 148 Australian prisoners of war in Dutch Timor. The prisoners are survivors of the A.I.F. battalion which was overwhelmed by the Japanese near Koepang in February. 1942. Among them may be a few of the A.I.F. commandos who fought on in Timor 10 months after the Japanese invasion of the island. The Australian occupation force will take the surrender of about 6000 Japanese in Timor. The Japanese in Timor appear to be concentrating in the Portuguese section of the island. One unconfirmed report says the Japanese have surrendered to the Portuguese Governor as representative of a neutral Power, a message from Sydney states.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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121RESCUE FORCE FOR TIMOR Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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