Malnutrition
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WHIM-WHAM
[The Honolulu correspondent of the "New York Times’, from an advanced airfield on a South Pacific island, tells how an American sergeant interrupted a cannibal feast to recruit native labour to help to build the airfield.-Cable news item.] HAT undreamt Horrors War reveals! How terrible to think that still So Savages sit down to Meals f human Flesh-the Foes they kill Dished up and carved for the Delight Of an unnatural Appetite! you? think they would have learnt Y now he Error of their savage Ways, How wrong such Diet is, and how More civilised Behaviour paysBut no! Refined Example fails, And Brutal Custom still prevails. ie glad to hear that Some at least Of Those whose Customs I deplore Were summoned from their shocking Feast To do their Bit in Total War, / And given simple Tasks to do, Of more Importance than they knew. HOPE that they were made aware That in his civilised Condition, Man may be slaughtered from the Air, Or shot, or tortured to Submission, Or blown to Bits; but when he’s beaten, He draws the Line at being eaten. -------
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 2
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187Malnutrition New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 2
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