NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7

NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN

TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

LONDON, September 5. ' The Japanese garrison in Singapore has moved from the island to the Malayan Peninsula, as arranged, and the British occupation has been carried out without incident, and considerably faster than expected. The people are jubilant, not least the large Chinese community, which has reason to remember the Japanese occupation with bitterness, judging from the first reports from the liberated city. Officials of the Malayan civil service are already getting back to work. A correspondent, reporting on the Japanese departure, says that the bedraggled troops looked very different from the arrogant Japanese who moved in three and a half years ago. "One thing we will not forget is the treatment they meted out to our war prisoners," he adds. Investigations are being made into the prison camp conditions, and when ' they are _ made public they will shock the-civilised world, he adds. nznnn Japanese reports disclose that 75,000 persons, mostly Netherlander and Australians, are held in prison camps in the Netherlands East Indies and New Britain.- , , ~ Starvation, disease, and fantastic cruelties have killed 20,000 of 56,000 Allied prisoners of war in Japanese camps, according to survivors from