FIJIAN SOLDIERS
DESIRE TO FIGHT JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, October 18. Thirty-four per cent of Fiji’s adult population is in the forces, the Governor of Fiji, Major-General Sir Philip Mitchell, revealed. “Fijians like soldiering and hate the Japanese,” he told war correspondents in the South Pacific. Sir' Philip, who hopes to link a brigade of Fijian troops with the 3rd New Zealand Division, now in the Solomon Islands, is at present consulting with Admiral Halsey and Lieut.-Gen-eral Harmon, who are in charge of the United States sea and land forces in the area.
“The Japanese have failed completely to turn the natives against us by playing the colour game,” he said. “There is intense hatred of the Japanese even among the primitive Solomon Islanders. As we go north in the Central Pacific, I don’t think we will find any native support for the enemy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1943, Page 3
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