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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1952Vol. XXII, No. 8

Fighting In Malaya

p. 114 · Read in the full issue

Methodists Against Fijians Fighting In Malaya

THE Methodist Mission Board t Australasia has protested t the British Government on tH sending of a battalion of Fij infan trymen to fight terrorists in Malays This was announced at a Methoj dist Mission conference in Sydnej at the end of February by th general secretary, the Rev. C. I Gribble.

Mr.' Gribble said that the Missio objected to 1,000 young Fijians b«c tween the ages of 18 and 30 bein sent out of their country at a critf cal stage of their struggle for racii existence.