PRISONERS OF JAPAN
MELBOURNE, August 4.
Japan reported through Geneva to the Commonwealth Government that she holds. prisoner 10,166 Australian soldiers —898 officers and 9268 other ranks. This has been announced by the Army 'Minister, Mr. F. M. Forde, who said that the Japanese radio reported another 3221 Australians to be prisoners, but that this had not been, confirmed and the men had been' listed as missirtg. \--r '■■ .yy ':
Those still reported missing, and of whom no'news at all had yet been re« ceived, numbered '9995-—234 officers and 9761 other ranks. ;:
. Speaking at this week's meeting of \ the New Zealand Society • for; Closer ■ Relations with Russia, the secretary, Mr. T. F. Gebbie, said that the trans- r port system had been assumed to be one of Russia's weak spots, .and its! early breakdown had been predicted ""■'.■ at the beginning of the war. Heex- -: plained, however, how Russia's . rail- ..; ways had been, developed during the/'..-. three five-year jplans until they were __ now able to cope successfully with all \ the tasks set -'.by.-the'-.-, war. Ke also ■■■.' dealt with the conditions-of Soviet J v raUwiay workers, arid mentioned the ;;'. small-size children's railways which S" operate in most X of Russia's -bigger ;* towns..' 'v-''-^::'-^^v:..,l:':i,.^-.. ! .',^
PRISONERS OF JAPAN
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 5
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