JAVANESE ILL-TREATED
iPv Telecraph.—Press Assn.— Copy right. > 1 .ustraltan Correspondents SYDNEY, May 31. . Ninelv Javanese labourers were in pitiful condition when they were American troops on Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea. They had been employed making roads till most of them were too weak from starvation and illtreatment to continue. Some died in their huts from exhaustion.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 209, 1 June 1944, Page 6
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