PRISONER RELIEF
Veto By Japanese
LONDON, September 4.
Tokio radio announced that the Japanese Government has refused permission to the American Red Cross for a neutral ship to carry supplies to the American prisoners of war, because the passage of a neutral ship in strategic waters would enable the gathering of war information. Japan, it added, is giving the American prisoners of war and internees fair treatment in accordance with international law, and therefore she does not recognize any special need for additional comfort and relief. According to the Catholic newspaper "The Tablet,” special efforts have been made at the Vatican on behalf of Sir Mark Young, • the Governor of Hong Kong, at the instance of the Roman Catholic missionaries in Tanganyika, to whom he had shown himself a warm friend when he was the Governor there.
The .Japanese envoy to the Holy See replied that while’Japan could not accept the gratitude of Catholic missionaries as a valid reason for his repatriation, it took note of the interest shown and he would be treated with all the consideration due to his high rank. . ,
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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183PRISONER RELIEF Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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