PRISON CAMP CONDITIONS
Recd. 10.10 p.m London, Sept. 6. The Exchange Telegraph agency's Singapore correspondent quotes a Brilish officer as saying that all prisoners in the Changi prison camp were either permanently or temporar-
ily unfit. “We had been underfed throughout and for the past six months were on a starvation diet.” He added that 80 per cent, of the prisoners on Singapore Island were suffering from chronic relapsing malaria and many also were suffering from beri-beri. Recd. 11 p.m. New York, Sept. 6. Japanese reports disclose that 75,000 —mostly Netherlanders and Australians —are held in prison camps in the Netherlands East Indies and New Britain. Appetite-producing drugs will be taken by flying doctors to thousands of prisoners and internees who may be suffering from malnutrition after their long captivity in the Far East. Large supplies of the drugs will be available for medical rescue teams. “We anticipate that their digestions will have been greatly impaired by bad feeding,” said a medical staff officer. “We shall nave to treat them more or less like.babies, feeding them mashed foods.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 5
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178PRISON CAMP CONDITIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 5
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