PRISONERS’ WORK FOR JAPANESE
MANY DIE ON RAILWAY TO BURMA (Rec._7.3o p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3. British survivors who were rescued by United States - forces from the prison camp at Cabanluan. on Luzon, disclosed that more than 15,000 of a total of 30,000 British and Dutch prisoners died in the two years ended June. 1944, while building a railway from Bangkok to Moulmein, in Burma. The prisoners on this job were 20,000 British, 5000 Australians, and 5000 Dutch. George Barber, of Nottingham, said it was horrible to see men literally dying on their feet. Two Australians had to have both their legs amputated as the result of tropical ulcers. At least 200 had one leg amputated for the. same reason. Many died from dysentery, cholera, and malaria. The Japanese • buried scores in common graves. United States War Department finance officers estimate that possibly 2.000,000 dollars, representing three years’ back pay, will be given to 513 survivors of Bataan and Corregidor rescued jft Cabantuan. The men gain
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24483, 5 February 1945, Page 8
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