"PLANE" ENGLISH: JAPANESE VERSION
Crude pamphlet Avar Avas carried on by the Japanese against the Australian troops in Malaya, but the onl3 r result was to give the boys a laugh. Here is one effusion:— "1. We inform you Australian soldiers that as at present the main fleets of the English far eastern and American Pacific squadrons have nearly destroyed by Japanese Navy It is too clear that you will have to incur the miserable and dreadful state which Avas formerly shoAvn in the battle at the island Crete and in Dunlierque if you dare to. continue fighting against us Japan. "2. Home soldiers of England m Malay are ready to retreat and by the order of London a great many transports have assembled together. Sorry to say they are now under our fierce air raid. "3. As you know tco avcll the English not only name the Australian sheep farmer and treat you as the countrymen but also at this present war the English make you stand at the first line in the battlefield while the English behave as rearguards to watch you to fight and die. Accordingly a great many Anzak soldiers were killed in the battle of Malay and Ivotabaru during" hand to hand fighting against Japanese soldiers and you left behind are also killed like those above."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 26, 9 March 1942, Page 8
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