IN HIGH SPIRITS
PRISONERS FROM BANGKOK Rec. noon. RANGOON, August 29. Nearly • one hundred prisoners, including British, Australians, Americans, and Dutch, have been'brought by air to Rangoon from Bangkok Many were thin and bearded, and all seemed to be in high spirits. They told terrible stories of Japanese atrocities and deaths caused by disease because of lack of medical equipment. "We may be short of transport aeroplanes but not so short that one could rot have been assigned to carry a party of Pressmen to Bangkok to cover the story of the release of war prisoners," says the Rangoon correspondent of "The Times." "The Royal Air Force public relations obtained a scoop, and the world has been deprived of the news of the reoccupation of Siam. South-east Asia is again reverting to its status of a forgotten - front, mainly because it has been impossible for correspondents to do a decent job.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7
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