SUFFERING ON GUADALCANAL
JAPS sorely tried. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. December 30. A Washington coastguard commander, Dwight Dexter, operating a naval base on Guadalcanal* until November 5, told a Press conference at th© Navy Department that the Japanese on Guadalcanal* wore suffering severely from starvation and disease besides “the little bit of hell the Marines were giving them.” The Japanese were without fresh supplies for about six weeks. Disease and lack of proper medical facilities wer© playing havoc with the enemy. Marin© patrols discovered scores of Japanese in bivouac areas who had apparently died from disease and malnutrition.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15238, 31 December 1942, Page 3
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