A GRIM PICTURE
LIFE IN EAST INDIES
DURBAN, October 28,
Dutchmen who have just escaped from the East Indies give a grim picture of life under the Japanese. All male Europeans aged from 16 to 60 have been interned. Women and children arc free, but they have no resources, and the children are not allowed to go to schools.
The strict rationing, with forced labour and 'lower pay. which the Japanese imposed caused great discontent among the natives. The general poverty led to an epidemic of thefts, to which the Japanese replied by cutting ofl; the hands of suspects, or by public executions. The Dutchmen stated that quislings, whom the Dutch interned at the lime of the invasion of Holland, were at first freed and then reintcrned by the Japanese.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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130A GRIM PICTURE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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