in Hiding
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Many Japs Sti[?] in Hiding
THE United States Goverr has information that at les Japanese soldiers are still I in New Guinea, Guam ano.
Philippines.
Thirty-two other stragglers? emerged from island jungles i last few years.
Late last year a group oc naval ratings was captured J Hollandia, Netherlands New Gt A much larger group of Js known still to be in hiding •< small island in the Philipphr Latest evidence comes from F= Palau Group of Micronesia, a Korean, Keiki Tukugawa, w\ cently captured by the local j while he was uprooting ts; plants.
The American authorities 1© that Tukugawa had been one party of labourers brought td Japs to work at the Anguar I phosphate diggings in 1942. he was recruited into a mr labour battalion and tak© Peleliu.
When the American Forces ae he escaped and fled to the hilLI nine others, none of whom hr seen again after losing contacts them.
Warned by the Japs thas Americans would cut off his H feet, and ears if they captureo; he had decided to avoid captid all costs, and for ten years had by raiding native gardens, < wild yams, taro, and coconut t The Tonga TB Control CD A. M. P. Ma’afu Tupou, ha. cently been carrying out a Tl' vey and preparatory work BCG vaccination programme o outlying island of Keppel (NX butabu).