TREATED LIKE CRIMINAL
GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE
CALCUTTA, September 2. Six American airmen who parachuted into Hsian camp, Manchuria, to notify prisoners and their captors of Japan's surrender almost paid with their lives for their bravery, Sir Shenton Thomas told the Associated Press of America. Sir Shenton was Governor of Singapore when it fell, and was'a member of a group of freed British prisoners who were flown from Chungking to Calcutta. He said that the Japanese seized the flyers roughly, stripped them, and stood them against trees. They were lucky not to have been shot. Sir Shenton Thomas said that he personally had been treated like a criminal. Guards slapped prisoners' faces and sometimes beat them with sticks if they failed to rise promptly when guards entered a room. They also flicked the prisoners' noses for each unfastened button. "I was once flicked for five buttons unloosened," said Sir Shenton.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 5
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149TREATED LIKE CRIMINAL Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 5
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