WHITE PRISONERS

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 6

WHITE PRISONERS

SUFFERINGS IN CHINA

(Rec. 9 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Feb. 16. Reliable reports have been received in Kunmirig"that the. Japanese authorities in Shanghai executed two American journalists, namely the. "New York Herald Tribune" correspondent, Victor Keen, and the publisher and editor of the "China Weekly Review," Mr. Portell. Eight hundred persons are reported to have died in Shanghai in the current cold wave. The entire population is threatened with starvation unless Red Cross relief is arranged shortly. Snow is falling for the fifth consecutive day throughout the Yangtze Valley from Shanghai ;to the interior. Five thousand troops of the surrendered Hong Kong garrison are living in ari internment camp in Kowloon in primitive condit:ions without proper food, Mr. Arnold Vaught, of the International Friends' Mission, . has reported. HO said that as the troops marched past the Kowloon V.M.C.A. they begged for water, but the people who ran to' give it were threatened with' Japanese bayOnets. Only two bowls of poorly cooked rice daily per man is provided. European non-combatants in the concentration camps are allowed out Only two hours daily and are given .very little food.