Weary, Fed-up Jap. Soldiers In Burma
(8.0. W.. 1.10 p.m) RUGBY, April 27. .More Japanese prisoners have been captured by airborne Chi ml its operating 200 miles inside the enemy half of Northern Burma, says a New Delhi message. One prisoner expressed himself thus: ••\Ve are fed-up with the war and tins operation. We are hungry and badly fed. and have been collected together anywhere and everywhere. We are thrust into the battle front short of food, suffering from malaria, and dying." Some of the latest batch of prisoners ar<i older men, not so easily influenced by their superior ollieers. The message adds that their altitude indicates that the Japanese soldier, at any rale in this area, is beginning to think for himself.
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Northern Advocate, 28 April 1944, Page 4
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