AKYAB ISLE LANDING
N.Z. FLIER WELCOMED JAPS. DESTROY RICE (10 a.m.) COLOMBO. Jan. 5. A few hours before the first British and Indian troops landed on Akyab Island, the island’s former judge, who is now an R.N.Z.A.F. wing-comman-der, flew in a light aircraft landing on a strip that had been made serviceable by villagers. He is WingCommander J. G. B. Bradley, of Wellington, New Zealand. The villagers greeted him with garlands of flowers and told him that the Japanese, having to abandon large quantities of rice, the island's staple food, had poured kerosene on it. They removed all the roofing materials such as corrugated iron and wood.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21605, 6 January 1945, Page 3
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