MANY DEATHS
FROM “FOOD DEFICIENCY.” CANADIANS IN JAPANESE HANDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) OTTAWA July 23. The Defence Department has published a casualty list of 40 Canadian prisoners of war who died in Japanese hands. The prisoners were captured after the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1941. The officials said the records showed that many died from food deficiency. The Red Cross Convention required the nation holding prisoners to provide the same diet as to its own soldiers, but the Japanese soldiers' diet was inadequate for Occidentals.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1943, Page 2
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