BOY SOLDIERS
DEMAND FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM NEW GUINEA.
STATEMENT BY AUSTRALIAN
ARMY MINISTER.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, October 13. "I believe that soldiers under 19 should not be sent into the firing line,” said, the Army Minister, Mr F. M. Forde, today. “No soldier under 19 who is already in New Guinea will proceed beyond the base area, and in future no Australian soldier under that, age will be sent to New Guinea or Darwin.”
The Minister added that in view of the complaints that some soldiers between 18 and 19 were in New Guinea and Darwin, he had communicated with General Blarney, who had agreed with him on the principles outlined. The question of withdrawing soldiers under 19 who. were with forward units in New Guinea was one which at the moment presented great difficulties. Inquiries were being made as to the number involved, if any, and the practicability of bringing them back to the base.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 4
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