SAVED MANY LIVES.
NEW GUINEA NATIVES.
P.A.
SYDNEY, Oct. 10.
But for the devotion and almost superhuman exertion of Papuan natives many Australian wounded in the Owen Stanley fighting would never have survived. This is the opinion of soldiers from New Guinea now in hospital in Australia. They suggest some better reeognition of the natives' heroism should be made than the few tins of bully beef or the few shillings that the soldiers could give them. "No white man could have carried us over that country," said one wcunded officer. "Up in the mountains the natives carried us over places where it was next to impossible to v/alk at all, and down Uberi way they carried us through mud up to their knees." "Our stretcher-bearers could never have stood up to it," declared another wounded soldier, "but the natives were wonderful. They looked after m e as if I were a baby. They seemed terrified that they might drop me. "In some parts of those mountains they aetually orawled flat along the ground and held the stretchers above their heads. They should all have got medals."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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186SAVED MANY LIVES. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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