ILL-TREATED INDIANS
(Special P.A. Correspondent) SYDNEY, October 3. Sixteen Indians rescued from the Japanese near Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea, are making a rapid recovery, from malnutrition and tropical sores at an Australian base hospital. The men were almost skeletons when they were found. They were captured at Singapore, in February, 1942. Of 900 Indians sent from Batavia to the Vogelkop area of New Guinea more than 200 died and another 200 sick were left, behind without medical treatment when the main force of the Japanese Second Army moved west to MacCluer Gulf. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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