| Item title: | To officers and men of the Japanese Army |
| Title (romaji): | Nihongun shôhei shokun |
| Title (kanji) | |
| Location: | Australian War Memorial (7/9/12 J269) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial leaflets |
| AJRP series: | Far Eastern Liaison Office propaganda leaflets |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | 7/9/12 J269 |
| Inst. series: | Various |
| Inst. sub-series: | |
| Item: | J269 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 3 pages, mimeographed copy |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Leaflet |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 26/2/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | PACIFIC WAR, PROPAGANDA, LEAFLET DROPPING |
| Australian unit names: | |
| Allied unit names: | FAR EASTERN LIAISON OFFICE |
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| Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) |
| Content: | This item is a Japanese-language propaganda leaflet produced by the Far Eastern Liaison Office during the Second World War. An English translation of the text is provided. The message urges Japanese troops to surrender so that they can serve Japan in the future. The leaflet assures that Japanese POWs will be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention and includes an extract from the Convention. The message mentions that 7,075 POWs have already been transferred to Australia and the Japanese government recently sent money through the International Red Cross for those POWs. 300,000 of them were printed. 150,000 of these leaflets were dispatched to Lae between 24 April and 15 May 1945, 102,000 to Morotai on 12 and 25 May 1945, and 50,000 to Torokina on 22 May 1945. |
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| Last modified: | 11/28/2001 04:19:29 PM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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