BRITISH PRISONERS RELEASED
. INHUMAN TREATMENT BY JAPANESE (Rec. 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb 2. Among rescued prisoners on Luzon were Britons, who were captured at Singapore and transferred to Thailand, where many diedl of cholera, bubonic plague and malnutrition during 18 months of prison labour, says the New * York ' Herald-Tribune's' Luzon correspondent. Signalman Thomas Farnsworth, of Lancashire, said: "I wore a G-string and went without boots for 18 months. The Japanese gave us bamboo treatment arid I suffered a rib. The British were returned to Singapore andJ then packed into the stinking hold of a 9,000-ton Japanese freighter last July and told they were going to Japan. Many prisoners died of malnutrition at sea. The freighter sank off Subic Bay on September 21 and the men drifted all day while Japanese .destroyers rescued 'only Japanese., Britons who reached the shore were immediately arrested and taken to Tangatan Camp."
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Evening Star, Issue 25400, 3 February 1945, Page 8
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