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AUSTRALIA’S INTENTIONS. CANBERRA, Sept. 3. The Commonwealth does not intend to use tho 90,000 Japanese prisoners in the area directly under its control for reconstruction work. The official atitude is that the sooner Australia gets them out of her territories the better, and all shipping facilities are to bo used to send them home. A suggestion that they should he used as working gangs to repair some of the damage they have done in New Guinea and elsewhere was considered, but this would lead to complications under international law, and there would ho a danger that armed gangs might wander off, presenting further problems to the authorities and possibly again jeopardising Australian lives.
Messages from New Britain report that Australian troops arc packing up to move into Rabaul after the formal surrender, which will probably take place on Thursday. The. surrender ceremony, covering New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea and tho Solomons, will he held on tho British niicmftocarrier Glory. Large fires wero seen by New Zealand airmen in and round Rabaul; these indicate that the Japanese are burning supplies.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 236, 4 September 1945, Page 5
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183NO JAPANESE LABOUR Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 236, 4 September 1945, Page 5
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