EXPLOSIVE BULLETS

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1942, Page 5

EXPLOSIVE BULLETS

USED BY JAPANESE IN NEW GUINEA. FEROCIOUS FIGHTING. SYDNEY. Dec. 14. Wounded Australian soldiers back from the Buna-Gona front tell stories of some of the world’s most savage fighting. Many have serious wounds and bone fractures, caused by explosive light machine-gun bullets, now being used by the' Japanese. The bullets "which explode after penetration cause shocking wounds. “Most men hit by them were killed, but those who survived had drea'dful injuries, said one wounded man. All were full of praise for the “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels” native stretcher-bearer o These natives had an intense hatred for the Japanese. Our soldiers had found outraged mutilated bodies oi native women near Japanese camps. “The Japanese are more like wild animals than men.” declared a soldier wounded in the Gona fighting. Even when their position is boneless they refuse to surrender,, and have to be blasted out of their holes.’ The unon ’ mous opinio n among the i rn 6’ * men was that “the beginning of the end” had arrived for the Japanese in New Guinea. The powerful air support being given to the Allied ground forces was a decisive factor, *and “biscuit bombers” supply planes which delivered ammunition and food stores with'n a few miles of the bat tie area, had solved many earlier supply problems.