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REGARDING WAR PRISONERS. OBTAINED FROM JAPANESE. . (British Official Wireless.} (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, December 2. While information as to the number of British prisoners of war in Japanese hands is incomplete, owing to the continued failure of the Japanese Government to give this and other essential information, Sir James Grigg, Secretary of State for War, stated in.the House of Commons, 592 officers and 32,274 other ranks of the British Army are recorded as prisoners, on the basis partly of official notifications of capture and partly of unofficial notification (including postcards received by next of kin). The only other information regarding British prisoners received from the Japanese Government concerns the death of 910 in captivity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1943, Page 2
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