JAPANESE BOMBS
AUSTRALIAN SCRAP "RETURNED " ' SYDNEY. Feb. -4. / According to a story told by a woman whose husband is at 'Rabaul, Australian beer bottle tops, used razor blades, scrap iron and old nails were?enclosed in the first bombs dropped by the Japanese on Rabual. She added that a man who has been evacuated from Rabaul has a piece of scrap iron from one bomb with the words,' "Thank, you. Mr Menzies," scratched on it. A steward 0n... one boat doing a regular run to Rabaul from Australia had kept bottle, tops and sold, them to the Japanese. 1 she said. She was in Rabaul when the raid began. The Chinese merchants just walked du! and left their businesses after the, first raid; The pepple lived in air-raid shelters most of the time till. ;they were evacuated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24833, 5 February 1942, Page 4
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