ENEMY STARVATION
BY-PASSED GARRISONS. SYDNEY, Aug. 21
Starving Japanese troops are fighting to the death for scraps of food on small Pacific 'islands by-passed by the Allies, according to reports received in Bougainville. The death rate from starvation and disease on Millo and Wotje, in the Marshalls, has been particularly high. More than 500 of the comparatively small garrison on Mille have died, no supplies having reached the island since December, 1943. Recently one Japanese on Mille stole a coconut and 20 were killed in the brawl that followed. On Wotje 25 Japanese arc dying daily. The Japanese are trying to survive on weeds, pawpaw tree pulp, lizards, crabs and. wild potatoes. The Japanese garrison of about 500 on Nauru is slowly dying of starvation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 225, 22 August 1945, Page 5
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125ENEMY STARVATION Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 225, 22 August 1945, Page 5
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