VALIANT DUTCHMEN
SURRENDER IN BORNEO AFTER NINE MONTHS.
ONLY WHEN AMMUNITION WAS EXHAUSTED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright/ (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. After nine months’ resistance to the Japanese in Borneo, 69 Dutch officers and men have surrendered. The capture of this party had been previously claimed seven times by Tokio, but it was only when the Dutchmen’s ammunition was exhausted that they finally abandoned the fight. Although the Japanese announced that Dutch resistance had completely ceased throughout the Netherlands East Indies, reports reaching Dutch headquarters in Australia still tell of battle-wounded Japanese soldiers being admitted to Batavia hospitals.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 4
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