VALOUR OF ANZACS
AND OTHER BRITISH FORCES IN CRETE ATTESTED BY JAPANESE PAPER. WORTHY OF SPECIAL ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 1 (Received This Day,'”s.3o p.m.) TOKIO, June 3. The Foreign Office journal, the "Japan Times," unprecedentedly pays a tribute to the bravery of the British forces in Crete and specifically mentions the gallant Anzacs. It says: "Every British officer and man who shares in this strangest war of all history deserves a special order of knighthood. Bombed, blasted and exhausted, stripped of the veneer of civilisation and knowing that they faced only bloody hand-to-hand fighting, they faced an incredible and horrible reality. They have proved that modern manhood is not decadent, they have experienced ultimate fear, and they can newer know peace again. Even the Germans will raise their hands in testimony to those whose heads arc bloodied but unbowed.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 6
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142VALOUR OF ANZACS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 6
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