HOW HORII DIED
(By I'elcLTtipb • Press Assn. —<’<»:>vrisrUt.» (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received January 31, 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 30. Lieut.-General Tomutore Horii, Japanese commander in Papua, was drowned when his raft overturned in the flooded Kuniusi River last November. The manner of his death has been confirmed by enemy prisoners captured in the Papuan fighting. With Lieutenant-Colonel Poyonari Tanaka, member of a famous Japanese military family, and other officers of his staff, General Horii was. attempting to escape from (lie Australians after tlie battle of Oivi. The raft capsized and all of those aboard it were drowned.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 108, 1 February 1943, Page 5
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97HOW HORII DIED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 108, 1 February 1943, Page 5
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