Ol Boi Bilog Maprik Nau Ples Klostu
[Australia, Far Eastern Liaison Office, between 1943 and 1945].
A double-sided leaflet (220 × 203 mm) with processed text and the Australian coat of arms (twice) on the verso, and two colour illustrations of an impressive native artefact on the recto; folded (possibly as issued), with a few trifling blemishes to the margins; in very good condition.
'The Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) was founded in mid-1942, and reorganised in September of that year. FELO was primarily concerned with the production of propaganda leaflets to be distributed to the Japanese and the local inhabitants in Papua, New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies, Malaya and Singapore. From November 1942 until its dissolution in September 1945, FELO estimated that it produced over 60 million leaflets in 14 different languages or dialects' (Australian War Memorial website).
Item #126495
Price (AUD):
$75.00