TO BE SHIPPED HOME
JAPANESE PRISONERS AUSTRALIAN DECISION (10 a.m.) CANBERRA, Sept. 3. The Commonwealth does not intend to use the 90,000 Japanese prisoners in the area directly under its control for reconstruction work. The official attitude is that the sooner Australia gets them out of its territories the better, and all shipping facilities are to be used to ship them to their homes. The suggestion that they should be used as working gangs to repair some of the damage they had done in New Guinea and elsewhere was considered, but this would lead to complications under international law and there would be a danger that armed gangs might wander off, presenting further problems to the authorities and possibly again jeopardising Australian lives.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 4 September 1945, Page 3
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