“TWO-TOES MEN”
JAPANESE IN NEW GUINEA LIGHT PRONGED SHOES WORN (Rec. 9.30 am) Sydney, This Day. Japanese soldiers are known to New Guinea natives as “two toes men,” because of tracks left in the mud by their two-pronged shoes These light-weight shoes have a separate compartment for the big toe, enabling the wearer to climb trees more easily and quickly ov?rcome steep or muddy obstacles which would delay a soldier in ordinary heavy boots. —P.A. Special Australian Correspondent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 5
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