CHINESE ILL-TREATED
Japanese In New Guinea (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received July 3, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY. July 3. Forced to accompany Japanese troops retreating from Madang to Hansa Bay, British New Guinea, Chinese residents captured in the area were beaten with swords to make them travel faster. Dysentery and malaria exacted their toll and at least 16 Chinese failed to survive the 120-mile ordeal. Two 'are stated to have been killed by the Japanese been use they were too ill to keep up with the main party. . Seventy survivors were laler abandoned and left without food by the Japanese. They were discovered by Australian patrols. Their number included infants in arms as well as aged and enfeebled men and women. The Japanese had also felt the strain of the gruelling trek and numbers of men desperately sick and weak were given grenades with which to commit suicide. ________
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 5
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149CHINESE ILL-TREATED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 5
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