NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 127, 26 November 1945, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Forecast to 5 p.m. Tuesday:— Fresh to strong north-westerly winds. Weather fair and mild. Further outlook: Similar conditions.

The situation is still of the westerly type. New moon, December 5. ' Temperature at 9.30 this morning, 63 degrees. Rainfall at 9.30 a.m., nil. Rainfall since October 26 to date, 0.94 in. High water, today, 10.49 p.m.; tomorrow, 11.8 a.m., 11.38 p.m. Sun sets today, 7.32 p.m.; rises tomorrow, 4.44 a.m., sets 7.33 p.m.

E.N.Z.A.F. Rehabilitation.

"Probably the men being discharged from my service will face a more difficult pei'iod of rehabilitation than others," said Air Vice-Marshal L. M. Isitt, at the annual meeting of the Otago-Southland Manufacturers' Association, reports the Dunedin "Star." "A great many Air Force men entered the service from school, with little background oi civil life. They served the Air Force well, and were a great team, so I ask you to be patient with them-during the first month of thencivilian employment.' Air ViceMarshal Isitt reported that R.N.Z.A.F. releases since YE Day numbered 20,000, and since VJ Day they totalled 16,000, while there were 3000 at present on leave pending discharge.

Letters Withheld By Japs

Three days after Japan capitulated British Army personnel who had been taken prisoner at Singapore, and who had spent the intervening period at the Taihoku prison camp on Formosa, found in the Japanese headquarters some 15,000 letters from their next-of-kin as well as hundreds of postcards written during their captivity. "Both letters and postcards had just been thrown into a corner," said a British warrant officer, who is convalescing in New Zealand. "The doctors believed that 25 per cent, of those who died in Taihoku could have been saved if only they could have had the encouragement and stimulus of letters from home. As the years passed and they had no letters many of the chaps worried themselves to the point of breakdown, and that on top of the poor rations and general bad treatment finished them off."