TERRIBLE ORDEALS
ENDURED BY PRISONERS IN HANDS OF JAPANESE. POISON TABLETS ISSUED TO NURSES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 24. Speaking in Melbourne, the Australian Minister of Health (Mr Holloway) said that the Japanese have subjected prisoners to the most terrible ordeals, and leading doctors had told him that nurses near the war front had been issued with tablets so that they could choose a painless death if ever they were unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of the Japanese.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 3
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81TERRIBLE ORDEALS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 3
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