Contrast In Cemeteries
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Letter to the Editor IT grieves me to see the Australian War Cemetery at Lae, with about 1400 graves in it and the Japanese War Cemetery, with a large conspicuous notice outside, holding only about 140 of the enemy.
Natives may argue that, though we won the war we lost ten times as many men as the Japs, and this could have a bad effect upon the white man’s prestige.
Either the Japanese War Cemetery at Lae should be allowed to revert to the jungle, or the bodies should be cremated and the ashes returned to Japan, to be placed in the national shrine for war heroes.
I am, etc.,
Lae Resident.
Lae, 149/46.
FU. Lieut. Don Aidnev, DFC, one of the members of Fiji’s RAF Contingent, left England by the “Rangitata” on September 11. on the first stage of his return to Fiji.