FIRST WHITE MEN TO VISIT JAPANESE ISLAND
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I - 4 — 7 . New Zealanders' History-making Expedition
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Received Tuesday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, June 3. Three platoons of the 27tb New Zealand Battalion made an armed landing in the island of Mishima, thirty-five miles ofF the south-\yestern tip of Honshu, which was hitherto unknown to Europeans, says Reuter's Tokio correspondent. The expedition was merely a routine landing for the New Zealanders, but it was an historic occasion for the islanders, who had not previonsly seen white men. The troops marched to the city hall, where the Mayor, Aritu Nobusuke, presented the New Zealanders' commander, Major Ronald Ferguson, of Whangarei, with a glass cased warrior doll. ^ The Mayor declared: "This visit of the first white men is j^jQj'eat honour for us. It will never be forgotten."
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1946, Page 5
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