AUSTRALIANS RILED

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1945, Page 5

AUSTRALIANS RILED

On Timor Island JAP PRISONERS NOT WORKED HARD ENOUGH (Rec. 9.15) SYDNEY, Sept. 19 Feeling is running high among Australian soldiers in Timor Island over continued “kid-glove treatment of the Japanese garrison according to a war correspondent ot “The-Sun,” who says: “The latest order is that the Japanese are to work only five hours a day with a half-hour' break for morning anil afternoon tea, and two hours lot lunch. Australian soldiers are working anything but five hours a daydoing all the navvying work while hundreds of Japanese lounge m camps mutsidt. At Koepan ustl rl bans are beginning to ask cynically, who won the war, and to predict chat it will not be before they are taking orders from Japanese. Iheir resentment is shared by Dutch an native officials, because lenient.and considerate treatment of Lie Japan ese is in such striking contraA to (heir own handling of the Dutch Tt-id Australian soldiers when they were captured in Timor Th e tive-hour do - is believed to be a result of re presentations by a Japanese oif'cer. has been iuitnei fed by instr Sons that Australians are not to' be harsh with the Japanese. In fact they have to be courteous and hot are being virtually supplanted nc taskmasters The Japanese now on the .move insteadi of the Japanese ofliceis 01 t ■nnihoritv of Australians, but ti.e lact cannot be denied that Japanese olfS° an getting their own way to an incredible extent.