FOOD FOR WAR PRISONERS
PLANES TO CARRY SUPPLIES RANGOON. Aug. 19. Beaufighters and Mosquitoes will fly ceaselessly to-day and to-morrow over prisoner-of-war camps from the Burma border to Bangkok, dropping food, cigarettes, tobacco, medical stores and comforts for British, Australian, American, and Dutch prisoners, of whom there are 20,000 in 10 camps scattered along the railway west of Bangkok. There has been a rush to volunteer for the job and pilots say that they are determined to get through no- matter how heavy the. flak may be. The prisoners are believed to be living under primitive conditions, with few clothes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25927, 21 August 1945, Page 5
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100FOOD FOR WAR PRISONERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 25927, 21 August 1945, Page 5
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