MEN IN DETENTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 169, 19 July 1945, Page 5

MEN IN DETENTION

I WCMEN ALLEGE THEY ARE i BRUTALLY TREATED '

Sydney, July 16 I Twenty women wont to the Sy. noy “Daily Telegraph” oiiice yesterday, alleging that their husbands and sons bad been brutally treated at the Miranda military detention camp. According to the “Da’ly Telcgiaah ” I they declared that on Saturday night I their menfolk we e called form bed I and bashed by a squad of provosts specially brought to the camp for the I purpose. They said 11. at when they visited the camp yesterday they found I the men with sticking plaster on thoi • faces and head*; and bruises ml • lumps on their bodies. The only cx--1 planation given, according to the men lv.es that many of them had been in • Tamworth camo on the occasion of I the demon: ti ation there. ' COMPLAINTS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED Melbourne, July 16 “Action has been taken to investi- ! gate reports that prisoners were bash<ed at Miranda detention camp near i Sydney ” said the Minister of tlr i Army. Mr. Forde. lie added that the ■ whole system of detention camps anf ! method of treating men underyo n- ! detention, would be further investigo.t--1 ed. | resort, says the Daily Express corn - ! spondent in Paris I A reporter from the Paris newspaper France Soir discovered th) s I’.vhon he saw Seyss Inquart arrive i thor«. Local people reported that the {rules of the Palace Hotel have lately been tightened un- Prisoners whe earlier lounged throughout Ihe day in (P'-k-ehairs now sleep on palliasses. Mr. Victor Cavandish-Bent it I’mlce-Secrctary of State in th ' Foreign Office, has been appoint < : British Ambassador in Warsaw. Mr t Cavandish served as the third socro jtary of the British Legation : n War saw in 1919 and Ivld the anpointn-’en' •laLso in Paris and The Hague. His las position abroad was at Santiago.