WAR PRISONERS
INFORMATION REFUSED BY JAPAN BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (British Official Wireless.) . (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, September 22. , The Financial Secretary to the War Office stated in the House of Commons that an official notification of transfer to Japan had been received in respect of less than 600 of the 16.300 prisoners of war of the United Kingdom and Australia notified as interned in Malaya. The total number of British prisoners now in Japan is believed to be about 7,000 or 8.000, including a substantial number captured in Java and Hongkong. There is no indication at I present that further transfers are contemplated. As regarded the treatment of prisoners, information remained incomplete, owing to the continued refusal of the Japanese Government to permit visits to camps in the occupied territories in which the bulk of the prisoners were detained. The refusal constituted a flagrant breach of international law and of the Prisoners of War Convention, with which the Japanese Government had agreed to comply.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1943, Page 3
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173WAR PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1943, Page 3
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