PRISONERS OF JAPANESE
Rec. 11 a.m.
RUGBY, Sept. 22;
The Financial Secretary of the War Office stated in the House of Commons that official notification of the transfer to Japan had been received in respect ot less than 600 of 16,300 prisoners of war of the United Kingdom and Australia notified as interned in Malaya. The total of British prisoners now in Japan was believed to be about 7000 or 8000, including a substantial number captured in Java and Hong Kong. There was no indication, at present, of further transfers being contemplated.
As regards their treatment, the information remained incomplete, owing to the continued refusal of the Japanese Government to permit visifs to camps in the occupied territories in which the bulk of the prisoners" were detained. This refusal constituted a flagrant breach of international law and of the Prisoners of War Convention with which the Japanese Government had agreed to comply.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1943, Page 7
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