Should Fijians
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Hunt And
Kill’ In Malaya?
Auckland, May 4.
rHERE has been strong criticism in Fiji of the new motto, “Hunt md Kill”, adopted by the Fijian Battalion in Malaya. A radio broad est from Suva on April 30 men ioning the motto, was from a record made by a member of Far East Land Forces Headquarters public relations >taff in Malaya.
Writing in the Fiji Times, a member of the Methodist Church !to which the majority of Fijians belong) protested against the motto md recalled a speech made in Aus :ralia ten years ago by the Rev.
Setareki Tuilovoni who said: “One hundred years ago missionaries came to Fiji and said to us, ‘No more war: Christians don’t fight,’; so there was no more war in Fiji until civilised people brought it back again.”
EDITORIAL NOTE— This is typi :al of the namby-pambyism which is the curse of the world to-day. The Malayan jungles are filled with murderers—human animals who :reep upon inoffensive and undefen ded people, and kill them without mercy, simply because the Muscovite Reds want it that way. The Fijian battalion was sent to Malaya as part of the free world’s effort to stop this horror. The only way to stop it is, with complete ruthlessness, to kill the murderers wherever they can be found, and drive them out of Malaya. If the Fijian jungle-fighters did not go to Malaya to “hunt and kill”, why on earth were they organ ised and sent off to that Country?