MORALE NOT GONE
JAPANESE IN BURMA.
TOLL OE EXHAUSTION
(N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 6. Although more than 10,000 Japanese troops have now been killed or captured in the break-out battle west of the Sittang River, in Lower Burma, a correspondent declares that it would be wrong to believe there is any weakening
of the Japanese morale. “Very few of the many prisoners surrendered,” the correspondent says. “Most just fell into our hands exhausted. They were found lying on the roads and paddy fields, too weak to put up any resistance. They were starving and many were suffering from beriberi and dysentery. Not ono had any shoes, and all wore halfnaked, wearing only loin-cloths and dusty turbans.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 5
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