Japanese Women Found Dead on Guadalcanar
NEW YOBK, Feb. 25. American mopping-up patrols in the Cape Esperance area of Guadalcanar, in the Solomons, have found the bodies of three Japanese women. This is the first positive evidence of Japanese women being on Guadalcanar.
The United Press correspondent, Mr. Kobert Miller, who gives this news in a delayed dispatch from the island, Says that the discovery recalls the stories early in the campaign that the enemy was employing women aviators, gunners, and spies, and that they had even brought up a contingent of women jspecialy to befuddle the United States Marines.
The Women were well nourished and apparently died ffom natural causes. Other Japanese women are believed to have lived near enemy headquarters at Visale, on the island.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 49, 27 February 1943, Page 5
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