PRISONERS OF WAR
TREATMENT BY JAPANESE COLOUR DISTINCTION (Rec. 7 p.m.) CANBERRA. May 8. Reliable reports have been received by ’the Prime Minister, Mr J. Curtin, that the Japanese in the territories they have occupied are discriminating between coloured and European prisoners of war with the obvious intention of creating a favourable impression on the native races.
Mr Curtin said that the present position aopeared to be that at Hongkong the Chinese were receiving fair treatment and had little difficulty in leaving unless they were suspect.' Chinese and Indians were reported to be receiving more food and better accommodation .than Europeans. The Government had a reliable report that 40 soldiers Were being made to pull rickshaws for Indians and Chinese. The Javanese members of the crew of a captured Dutch submarine were being treated excellently, but the Dutch officers were being subjected to great hardship and indignity.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24911, 9 May 1942, Page 5
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