Indians Recovering After Inhuman Treatment
(Special. 2.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Sixteen Indians rescued from the Japanese near Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea, are making a rapid recovery from malnutrition and tropical sores at an Australian base hospital. Tin- men were almost skeletons when they were found. They were captured at the fall of Singapore in February. 1942. Ot 900 Indians sent from Batavia to the
Vogelkop area of New Guinea, mere than 200 died, and another- 200 sick were left behind without medical treatment when the main force of the Japanese Second Army moved westward to MneCluer Gulf. The Indians w-fio were rescued mnrchyd 70 miles with little food lo a rendezvous where they were picked up after a month on the jungle trails. The men told stories of their brutal treatment at Manokwari. ;v’nore tln-ir working hours wen- unlimited. Thev were -made to repair alrfe-kts. unload ships, dig drains, eul timber and cultivate vegetables.
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Northern Advocate, 3 October 1944, Page 4
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