WHITE PRISONERS
TREATMENT BY JAPANESE. INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS , INTERVENES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CHUNGKING, September. 13. The international Red Cross intervened with the Japanese Government ever the treatment of 6000 white war prisoners drafted for construction work in the jungles on the Thailand-Burma border on the new Bangkok-Rangoon railway. In consequence, says the United Press of America, the prisoners’ food, quarters and medical attention improved, but not before an undisclosed number died.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1943, Page 3
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72WHITE PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1943, Page 3
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