SAFE AND WELL
FAMILY RESCUED FROM JAPS Mr. H. P. Newton, late of Napier, has* received official advice that his daugtn ter, Mrs. W. A. R, Atkinson, her hus< band, and three children, who havei been interned in Santo Tomas Camp, Manila, for over three years, are safq and well. Mr. Atkinson, late of the: Union Steam Ship Company, was superintendent engineer of the Holier! Company in Shanghai.' After the; Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour Mr< and Mrs. Atkinson and their two childdren left for Calcutta, but were taken prisoner at Manila. Four months later! a third child was .'born in the Red Cross Hospital. Two brief cables and one letter have been the only communications Mr.' Newton has received from his daughter since the famlly'a internment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 4
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