TORN BY ANXIETY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4

TORN BY ANXIETY

RELATIVES OF HONG KONG VICTIMS COLONIAL OFFICE BESIEGED. RED CROSS MESSAGE TO JAPAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright! (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, March 11. Torn by anxiety at the news of Japanese atrocities, relatives of British men and women left in Hong Kong have besieged the Colonial Office, seeking information about the fate of husbands, wives, sons and daughters. An official stated that nothing further had been heard of the garrison and the women who stood by them. There was no news of further escapes. The British Red Cross has cabled the International Red Cross at Geneva for transmission to the Japanese Red Cross: “The British Red Cross is appalled at the Japanese troops’ treatment of prisoners of war and Asiatic and European civilians at Hong Kong. Beg you to draw attention of Prince Shimadzu, president of the Prisoners of ’.War Relief Section of the Japanese Red Cross, to the announcement?. of torture and indignities to which British nationals have been; subjected after the occupation of Hong Kong. Please request him to take every step to give Rod Cross protection to the unfortunate captives and ensure that such treatment shall not occur in future.”