JAPANESE CRUELTIES
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS Rec. 12.30 p.m. CHUNGKING, Aug. 29. High-ranking British subjects freed from Manchurian prison camps found an accumulation of 20,000 letters which the Japanese had withheld for some three years, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. ~ ~ , ~ Sir Shenton Thomas said that the Japanese crammed 2700 prisoners into quarters built for 600 in a camp near Singapore. They used one building both for hospital and insane asylum. Prisoners were removed to Formosa in rat-infested ships' holds, crowded almost to the point of suffocation. The Japanese at Takao supplied one mosquito net for every five persons, as protection against millions of insects. Seventy cases of dengue fever and malaria developed in the first month. The prisoners were underfed and poorly clad in the bitterest weather. Sir Shenton Thomas lost four stone while a prisoner. He described his Russian rescuers as v/onderful.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7
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