Terse Fijian Comment
p. 27 · Read in the full issue
On Tactics In Malaya
TWO wounded Fijian soldiers, casualties of a large-scale Communist terrorist ambush in Malaya on November 15, were Ihospital patients at Auckland in Ijuly, when they were on their way back to Fiji.
I They were Privates S. Raicele, Sand T. Lasa. With them were S. Nokete (wounded in ianother action) and Private R.
Mataika.
A New Zealand report quoted one of the soldiers as saying that the Fijian troops had become rather I, tired of “fighting for civilians who help the enemy” in Malaya. * The soldier added: “The civilians hide the terrorists and give them ' food. The terrorists are not good fighters. When we shoot at them, they just run.” ■ The November ambush, conducted on the usual terrorist hit-and-run lines, cost the Fijians six men killed and five seriously wounded.