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HATRED OF JAPANESE

Fijians Hope To Join N.Z.

Division In Solomons

(Received October IS, 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 18. Thirty-four per cent, of Fiji s adult population is in the forces, the Governor of Fiji, Major-General Sir 1 liiup Mitchell, revealed. “Fijians like soldiering and hate the Japanese,*’ he told war correspondents in the South Pacific. Sir Philip, who hopes to link a brigade ol Fijian troops with the 3rd New Zealand Division, now in the Solomon Islands, at present consulting with Admiral Halsey and Lieut.-General Harmon, who are in charge of the United States sea and land forces in the area. “The Japanese have failed completely to turn the natives against us by playing the colour game,” he said. “There is intense hatred of the Japanese even anwg the primitive Solomon Islanders. As we go north in the Central Pacific, I don’t think we will find any native support for the enemy.” .

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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5

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HATRED OF JAPANESE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5

HATRED OF JAPANESE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5

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