IN JAPANESE HANDS
RUGBY, July 13. Tho names of 31,800 officers and other ranks in the navy, army, and air force have been notified as prisoners in Japanese hands, the Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg) informed the House of Commons, in reply to questions. Sir James added that m6re than 24,000 were still recorded as missing, the large majority of whom were thought- to be prisoners. The number of civilians in Japanese hands was not known, but was believed to be about 40,000. All efforts to secure Japanese agreement to the regular transport of. relief supplies for the Far East had hitherto been unsuccessful, and it had only I been possible to send such supplies on Japanese ships returning to Japan with exchanged Japanese prisoners. Definito information had been received that the supplies shipped had reached prisoners and internees in Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 193, 15 July 1943, Page 5
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