PRISONERS' COMPLAINTS
Rec. 12.20 p.m. TOKIO, September 3. American doctors on the hospital ship Benevolence have found that 25 per cent, of 1518 liberated prisoners of war so far examined are suffering from tuberculosis due to malnutrition and poor hygiene. Others are mostly suffering from beriberi, dysentery, anemia, and extreme malnutrition. Some prisoners have not suffered illness but have lost weight. The correspondent of the Associated Press of America in Yokohama reports that four army teams are questioning prison camp officials and liberated prisoners with a view to listing war criminals. The Americans found a huge quantity of undelivered packages of letters, some of which had been looted, in a warehouse district.
Cunningham, the heroic commander at Wake Island, who has been released from a prison camp in Peiping, revealed that the Japanese sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment for his first attempt to escape and to a life sentence for the second attempt.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 7
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