NEW ZEALAND CASES
ORANJE NOW IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS (Special) WELLINGTON. Oct. 2. Once more the Netherlands hospital ship Oranje has arrived in Australia, this time carrying liberated Australian and New Zealand prisoners of war and internees from Malaya, states the Netherlands Indies Government Information Service. Melbourne. The arrival of the Oranje, which over the past years has carried so many Australian and New Zealand servicemen back to their homes, recalls the large share which the Netherlands merchant navy with its Dutch and Indonesian crews has played in the war in the South Pacific. Following the fall of the Indies, the Dutch ships in the South-west Pacific were based on Australia from which ports they have materially helped the Allied war effort.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25964, 3 October 1945, Page 4
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121NEW ZEALAND CASES Otago Daily Times, Issue 25964, 3 October 1945, Page 4
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