CONDITIONS OF SLAVERY
JAPS. ILL-TREAT PACIFIC NATIVES. P.A. Gable. SYDNEY, Oct. 18. The natives in the Japanese-occu-pied islands are living under condi- j tions of slavery, according to " boys " j who have escaped from Rabaul. The I "boys," who were members of a large party, arrived In Allied territory after a month's journey. When the Japanese occupied Rabaul, the natives were rounded up into barbed wire compounds. They were put to work, given insufficient food, and frequently thrashed. Former Japanese residents in New Britain have been brought back and appointed to positions approximating those previously held by the Australian district officers. These people dispense summary justice. ' A native said that one Japanese official who had been a trader in Rabaul some years ago concluded his inquiry irito a dispute between two natives by cutting off the hand of the man he believed responsible for the trouble. Three hundred Japanese geisha girls are stated to have been brought to Rabaul. The girls dress in kimonos, with wooden clog shoes. The natives have been forbidden to speak to them.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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177CONDITIONS OF SLAVERY Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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