PRISONERS OF JAPAN
IMPROVEMENT IN LOT
CHUNGKING, September 13.
The International Red Cross approached the Japanese Government over the treatment of 6000 white war prisoners drafted for construction work in the jungles of the Thailand-Burma border on the new Bangkok-Rangoon railway.
In consequence, says the United Press of America, the prisoners' food, quarters, and medical attention improved, but not before an undisclosed number died.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1943, Page 5
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