BANGKOK MOULMEIN RAILWAY
SIAMESE PROPOSAL FOR PURCHASE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. “The Siamese Government has offered to buy the Bangkok-Moulrriein railway, known to thousands of prisoners of war who worked on it as the ‘Railway of Death,’ ” says the “Daily Mail.” “Discussions at present are being held between British officials and the Siamese Government in Bangkok The discussions also cover compensation from the proceeds of the sale to prisoners of war who worked on the railway and the dependants of those who died.
“A Foreign Office Far East expert stated that the Australian authorities had first raised the question of compensating the prisoners of war who built the railway. The expert added: ‘it is an involved question and no decision has been announced.’ He expressed the opinion that when the railway was properly reconstructed it would become an important commercial line connecting up the railways of China and Indo-China with those of Burma, relieving congestion at the ports of Rangoon and Bangkok.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24959, 21 August 1946, Page 5
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