The attempt of the Japanese occupation forces in the South-West Pacific to get as much manpower as possible out of the conquered populations is clearly shown by a news item broadcast in all languages from Tokio and Batavia on November 4 stating that from November 1 military drill would be compulsory in all elementary schools, high schools, colleges and technical schools in Java. Even girls’ schools are not exempted. If the Javanese “Volunteer Corps” has been the success Japanese propaganda of the last few weeks would have us believe (a Netherlands publication observes) there would hardly have been any reason for this desperate step.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1943, Page 3
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