JAF PRISONERS OF WAR
- 27,000 LEAVE AUSTRALIA Received Sunday, 7.10 p.ni. S x )L , rvrarch 3. As 27,000 Japanese pnsoners of wa' and internees arnved by train to go aboard the Daiuai Maru for repatria fcron, all precautions were ■ tanoa to pri. vent people having coutact v/icli tnem cruards armed with suomaciuneguns ,nstols and batons kept carefui watc. at ali points and barricades. One Aus ranan ex-r-^_ .icman uauged ra ! ;uards, rau acrcss the whhrf and teap ed mto th'e train. He punched on i .risonor in the mou'th axid "uck wilu | y at others before liie guards clo'sea i .11 on liiin. [ i'our conimandos tried in vain to ge | 'board the ship and then carried out • raid on one train as it pulled ih. One j -ommando exhi,.ited ugly scars on his :egs which, he claimed, were liix.xctecl by ! the Japanese. At l'east one prisoner who went aboard is known to bc siift'sring from leprosy and there is no special accommodation. The ship cleated Sydney last night, escorted hy .suhnvariii'es.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1946, Page 5
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