ONLY ANZAC FORCES TO BE LEFT IN JAPAN
Received Sfiturclay, 12.20 a.m. TOKIO, June 20. Indian occupation troops at presem stationed in Southern Japan 11 be ■vithdrawn as soon as shipning is available, Reuter's Jearns from military lources. The first batch is expected to leave carly in July anrl the enti're Indian force will be cleared by the end, of the year, thus leaving B.C.O.F. vir* tually an Anzac affair. Earlier this /ear the United Ivingdom forces wero n-ansferred to Malaya. The food situation had become so .iritical that it vvas difficnlt for the lapanese Government to map out any efPective plan oi' agriculture and foresSry, the Miuister Rikizo Hirano told a Vneeting of the Agricultural Recou struetion Couneil. He added that if the people made every possible efpoft to 'cooperate With tbe Government it would be possible to prevent starvation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 June 1947, Page 4
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