| Item title: | News from home |
| Title (romaji): | Naichi-dayori |
| Title (kanji) | |
| Location: | Australian War Memorial (7/9/26 MXJ21) 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: | 7/9/26 MXJ21 |
| Inst. series: | Various |
| Inst. sub-series: | |
| Item: | MXJ21 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 2 pages, mimeographed |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Leaflet |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 18/7/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | LEAFLET DROPPING, PACIFIC WAR, PROPAGANDA |
| Australian unit names: | |
| Allied unit names: | FAR EASTERN LIAISON OFFICE |
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| Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Area: | Japan–Formosa Java (Jawa) [Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia)] Wake Island [Central Pacific] Singapore [Malaya–British Borneo (Malaysia & Singapore)] |
| Content: | This Japanese-language propaganda leaflet was produced by the Far Eastern Liaison Office at the end of the Pacific War. An English translation of the text is attached. It provides recent news from Japan, which includes the shelling of the Japanese coast by American warships, the evacuation of Japanese civilians from Singapore and Java, and the safe passage of sick and wounded from Wake Island by hospital ship, the Takasago Maru. Copies of the leaflet were distributed among Japanese troops in Ternate and Morotai. |
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| Last modified: | 08/26/2005 12:18:18 PM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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