FOUGHT TO DEATH
GENERAL GORDON BENNETT’S TESTIMONY BIG REMAINING TASK SEEN IN WAR (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. “The Diggers who fought in Malaya fought as well as any Diggers I have ever seen, in this war or the last,” Lieutenant-General Gordon Bennett told the New South Wales Council of the Returned Soldiers’ League. “Their individual courage,” he added, “was second to none and they did not surrender of their own accord, but fought to the death in many cases. In one engagement 2,000 men went in and only 400 came out. Even the seriously wounded, who could not be moved,' turned on the Japanese with machine-guns, knowing full well what was in. store for them. “The big fight for Australia is yet to come,” continued General Bennett. “We have yet to beat the Japanese—a long and difficult task. We shall have a separate fight for every island. We shall probably not hop from island to island, but we must clear them out, so that there will not be a Japanese within 2,000 miles of Australia.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1944, Page 4
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