Press Photo Fly Brassieres to Malayan Jungle Fort

Fly Brassieres to Malayan Jungle Fort.: The Aborigine girls of the Senoi Tribe near Fort Dixon, situated 40 miles up the Telom River from Kuala Lipis, in the State of Perak, Malayan, are how able to buy brassieres, sarongs, lipstick,faco powder and Italian glass beads in the Aborigine store situated inside the barbed wire of the jungle fort. These Feminine articles are parachuted into Fort Dixon by R.A.F. Valettas which the fort is being supplied from the air. The river is so shallow that only flat bottomed craft slightly longer than cances can reach Fort Dixon therfeore airdrops are the only means of supplying the men who garrison the Fort. The women are delighted with their gay sarongs and their cosmetics, but there is not one hundred percent approval of the bassieres. Sore wear, them, but others find them restricting and uncomfortable and throw them away.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.

Photo is dated --0000.

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