AUSTRALIAN FORCES
RETURN FROM THE ISLANDS
The following is a summary of a statement which was made by the Prime Minister of Australia last week: The provision of additional shipping made it possible to forecast that 31,000 Australian Army and Air Force personnel would be returned to Australia during November and 31,000 during December. This would leave 36,000 still to be moved as at December, 1945 It is anticipated that by 1946> the mly Aus" tralian military and Air Force personnel remaining in the islands will be those required for garrisoning the area together with the Australian force that will be dispatched to Japan as occupational troops, namely: Japan, 10 000; Borneo, 29,000; New Guinea. New Britain, and Solomons, 43,000; total 82,000. The estimated number of Japanese still held in these areas is 343,000. Eventually Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies area will be taken over by British troops. This factor and the gradual repatriation of Japanese will in due course reduce the strength of the Australian garrisons to be maintained in the islands.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 132, 1 December 1945, Page 11
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