FOUL TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 3

FOUL TACTICS

USED BV THE JAPANESE ' IN EARLY SOLOMONS FIGHTING. NURSES USED AS DECOYS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 12. Evidence of Japanese treachery in the early phase of fighting in the Solomons is revealed by American marines, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain, at Guadacanar. On Tulagi, the Japanese used nurses as human decoys. When the mar-

ines neared a hospital, a group of girls wearing white uniforms came out. The marines approached them, whereupon Japanese soldiers machine-gunned both marines and nurses from hospital windows. f ' Another typical Japanese trick which worked onlv once resulted in the death of 20 marines. A Japanese 'major emerged from the woods, at Guadalcanar and reported that *0 soldiers Sed to surrender. He offered to lead the marines to them. The.marines followed him into an ambush. Japanese frequently played dead and threw grenades when marines were not looking. Fire-crackers were also used by the Japanese in attempts t o lead mopping-up squads into traps.