CAPTURED AIRMEN

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 7

CAPTURED AIRMEN

Mistreatment By Japanese

CHUNGKING, February 18. Captured American airmen handcuffed and blindfolded have been herded by the Japanese through the 'ities of occupied China on planned tours, apparently to ridicule them to the populace, reports the United Press of America. This latest 'Japanese mistreatment of prisoners was disclosed when General Chennault announced that dispatches listing the exploits of individual airmen would be banned, presumably to frustrate enemy propagandists. The Japanese action is seen in Chungking as an attempt to convince the Chinese that Japanese airmen have not been entirely without air successes. FROM CHINESE BASES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 17., From the beginning of December, 1943, to the middle of February, the 14th United States Air Force in China destroyed 128 enemy- planes, probably destroyed 74, sank 92 enemy ships totalling 75,000 tons, and probably sank or heavily damaged 71 ships totalling 60,000 tons. . The Americans lost 18 planes in the air and eight on the ground.