Guide to the Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) leaflet collection

Brief description

The Far Eastern Liaison Office leaflet collection consists of forty nine separate series, totalling 2635 orginals and 2286 translations, housed in thirty folders of orginals and fourteen folders of duplicates. There are two folders of oversize items and four albums which contain duplicates and three leaflets which are unique to the albums.

Full description

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 69 million leaflets in seven languages. 2635 orginals and 2286 translations. SERIES A. Description: Target Area: Aitape Area. To Officers and Men of the Japanese Forces (Japanese text).; SERIES BM ( British Malay). Description: Target Area: British Territory in Borneo To inhabitants and Japanese Forces.; SERIES BML. Description: Target Area: Borneo. To inhabitants.; SERIES BPXD. Description: Target Area, Dutch speaking population Japanese surrender announcement.; SERIES BPXJ. Description: Target Area: Japanese Forces in upper reaches of Balikpapan Bay. Japanese Text.; SERIES BPXM. Description: Target Area, Indonesians; Japanese surrender.; SERIES C. Description: Target Area: to Chinese in Japanese occupied territory Chinese Text.; SERIES D & DX. Description: Target Area: NEI under Japanese occupation Dutch Text.; SERIES F. Description: Target Area, French Indo - China French Text.; SERIES G, J, JI, JK, JX. Description: Target Area, Japanese soldiers Japanese Text.; SERIES JL. Description: Target Area, To officers and men of the Japanese army and civilians Text in Japanese, translation given.; SERIES JM. Description: Target area, Japanese Army and Navy Text in Japanese, translation given.; SERIES LJ. Description: Target Area, Japanese soldiers Text in Japanese, translation given.; SERIES M, MIK, MX, MXM, SM, TXM, Z. Description: Target Area, Netherlands East Indies.; SERIES MJ. Description: Target Area, Netherlands East Indies Non - Roman alphabet (translation given).; SERIES MM. Description: MM1 - 4 have on reverse. The bearer of this leaflet comes from occupied territory. He should be given food and well treated.; SERIES MXBM. Description: Target Area, British Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak Translation only, given for those in non Roman script.; SERIES MXD. Description; Target Area, Unknown.; SERIES MXF. Description: Target Area, French Indo China.; SERIES MXJ. Description: Target Area, Jpanese Forces on Morotai translation given.; SERIES MXU. Description: Target Area, To POW and Japanese regarding surrender.; SERIES OWI. Description: Text in Japanese.; SERIES P, PF, PK, PM. Description: Target Area, to natives of New Guinea in pidgin.; SERIES PG, PGD, PGX. Description: Target Area, Portuguese Timor.; SERIES QP. Description: Illustrations used on leaflets - flags, crests, and borders.; SERIES S. Description: Target Area, Maprik and environs; SERIES TOT. Description: Illustrations used on leaflets - New Guinea themes.; SERIES TXJ. Description: Series Target Area, Japanese forces at Tarakan text in Japanese, translation given.; SERIES U. Description: Target Area, Indian prisoners of war text in Indian script - translation given.; SERIES WM, X, Y. Description: Target Area, New Guinea natives.

Notes

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Significance

This series contains propaganda leaflets distributed to military and civilian populations in Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak, the Netherlands East Indies, Papua new Guinea and Portugese Timor.