DUTCH HOSPITAL SHIP
JAPANESE VICTIMS AT AUCKLAND
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, October 3. The Netherlands hospital ship Tjitjalengka, has arrived at Auckland with 459 victims of Japanese brutality, neglect, and semi-starvation. Most of them are British sailors, soldiers and airmen, the rest being Australians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Indians and Chinese. They have beriberi, dengui, tuberculosis, malnutrition and other illness contracted in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Many have limb amputations. All the patients reveal indomitable spirit and cheerfulness. The ship is a Dutch vessel chartered by the Admiralty. She anchored in the stream tonight, and will berth tomorrow morning, when the patients will be transferred to various hospitals in the Auckland province. The ship will leave shortly for Wellington, where it will receive from the New Zealand hospital ship Maunganui some patients bound for Australia. The voyage to Sydney will then be continued. All the patients are from prisoner of war and internees’ camps in Japan. They joined the ship at Tokyo. When they came aboard at Tokyo die majority were said by the ship’s doctors to have been in a pitiable state. Some , were walking skeletons. Since then the majority have made amazing progress. None has died.
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Southland Times, Issue 25794, 4 October 1945, Page 4
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197DUTCH HOSPITAL SHIP Southland Times, Issue 25794, 4 October 1945, Page 4
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