JAPANESE TACTICS
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS FAVOUR SHOWN TO COLOURED RACES. HARDSHIPS & INDIGNITIES FOR EUROPEANS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Reliable reports have been received by the Federal Premier (Mr Curtin) that the Japanese, in the territories they have occupied, are discriminating between coloured and European prisoners of war, with the obvious intention of creating a favourable impression on the native races. Mr Curtin said the present position appeared to be that at Flong Kong Chinese were receiving fair treatment and had little difficulty in leaving unless they were suspect. Chinese and Indians were reported to be receiving more food and better accommodation than Europeans. The Government had a reliable report that ‘forty soldiers were being made to pull rickshaws for Indians and Chinese. Javanese members of the crew of a captured Dutch submarine were being treated excellently, but Dutch officers were being subjected to great hardship and indignity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 4
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