PRISONERS OF WAR
JAPAN REFUSES REQUEST (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 23, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 22 The Financial Secretary to the War Office stated in the House of Commons that official notification of the transfer to Japan had been received in respect of less than 600 of 16,300 prisoners of war of the United Kingdom and Australia who had been notified as interned in Malaya. The total of British prisoners now in Japan is believed to be about 7000 or 8000, including a substantial number captured in Java and Hongkong. There is no indication at present that further transfers are contemplated. As regards the treatment of soners the information remained incomplete, owing to the continued refusal of the Japanese Government to permit visits to camps in the occupied territories in which the bulk of the prisoners are detained. The refusal constituted a flagrant breach of international law and the Prisoners of War Convention, with which the Japanese Government agreed to comply.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 5
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