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[?] ii Battalion Home June

FTER three years of distinguished service against the Red Chinese terrorists in the jungles of [aya, the Fiji Battalion will de t from Singapore on the Devon e on May 30, and is expected to mbark in Suva on June 10. he wives and families will travel the ship with the main body, ne officer and 4 men, comprising •ay and Records staff, will go a Fiji to Malaya in April, to with records, pay, etc.; and a ;alian advance party of 1 officer 10 men will arrive in Suva i Malaya on May 20. lis will end a notable chapter he creditable military record of Colony of Fiji. The Fijian Lers who served in Malaya, by r courage and dependability in jungle, and their exemplary luct on all other occasions, have praise from all who came into act with them except the orists. leir score of kills, in dealing a sneaking enemy of a deadly , has exceeded that of any of Dther 20 or more Battalions en d in this jungle war. The Royal ipshires had the next best score.

Stralians Never Heard

Of Fijians!

ie Pacific Islands suffer a good in many ways, from the atten of Australia’s sensational and ponsible newspapers. The dis arance of the Joyita, and the of a mission youth charged a murder in the Solomons, are it cases in point. So the friends 7 i j i suffered in philosophic ze while the Sydney news rs ’ brightest young men ran : in Malaya lately.

Australian Battalion, a few ;hs ago, arrived in Penang; and ie course was introduced to the e exercise known as tracking . Red terrorists. With them some of the hysterical boys the Australian press, stralian troops are world us fighting-men, and the

ya Battalion—although pamp

in Penang—probably are ly sons of their AIF fathers, if one were guided by the sh published in Australia from Special Correspondents in 7a” one might believe that the troops in Malaya are Aus ns, and that they have the irists everywhere on the run.

Darently, the “Special Corre-

thf South" pSSS? that

there three veara brfoS thf trahLs and hnd Aus : skittled hundreds of Commimi5 nd skittied hundreds of Communists.

Actually there are some 20,000 English and Indian (Ghurkas, from Nepal) troops in Malaya, and some of them have a notable record of successes.

The most publicised achievement of the Australian troops, up to date ar?worthy U tf a "Ta P the n f alaya

“M^ rS there t 0 the

excellent article about the Fljians has appeared recently, how ever~m the Brisbane Courier-Mail. 7 he ■ author - Philip Luker, told Aus tralians that their soldiers had an almost impossible task to equal the Fijians’ record either in fighting or in sport.

He said, amongst other things that the Fijians were anxious to get their 200th Terrorist before thev went home. s

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