WAR PRISONERS.
RECEPTION PERSONNEL. CANBERRA, Aug. 21. A ship with 1200 person aboard will leave Australia in the next 24 hours to assist in the return of Australian prisoners in Japanese hands. Announcing this, the Minister of the Army (Mr F. M. Forde) said ihis reception group of 1200 would go to Singapore and some of the Philippines. A message from Manila reports that Australian ships have been requisitioned to repatriate Australian prisoners of war from Japan. Most, of the prisoners and civilian internees are expected to be steaming home not more than a. month after they reach the Philippines.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 267, 22 August 1945, Page 3
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