| Content Note | Includes: Press cutting from the Times reporting on Borneo's independence from Dutch rule, dated 13 May 1947; Press cutting reporting on Australian troops landing at Labuan Island and at Muara, dated 12 June 1945; Press cutting from the Times reporting on Australian landings at Sarawak, dated 22 June 1945; Press cutting reporting on cruelty to Allied prisoners of war in Borneo and the suicide of Colonel Suya, the Japanese commandant for all the camps, dated 17 September 1945; Press cutting from the Times about British control over Sarawak, dated 7 February 1946; Press cutting reporting on the massacre of 100 French civilians and 500-600 French prisoners of war by Japanese troops in Sandakan, dated 10 September 1945; Press cuttings from the Times reporting on the capture of Tarakan by Australian troops, dated 7 May 1945 and 8 May 1945. |