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TOTAL P.O.W. CONTACTED IN THE FAR EAST
REMARKS
Country
U.K. F.O.W
Total P.O.W.
SIAM
13,000
35,000
SINGAPORE 7,000
30,000
NE I.
1,000
6,000
F.I.C.
2,500
4,500
MANCHURIA 250
2,000
105
Conditions at first serious and 25 dying daily. Supplies being flown in and since 26th August only 4 deaths. Total sick is 9,000.
Siamese helping with food.
400 P.C.W. have been evacuated to Rangoon in returning aircraft. P.0.W. being concentrated in the 7 largest camps.
In addition, 4,500 civilian internees in Sime Rd. (includes 450 English women and children). Modical and food supplies have been dropped by air.
1,000 dangerously ill and
7,000 others are hospital cases.
Medical situation good.
Conditions good.
CHINA
500
FORMOSA 1,000
1,206
HONG KONG Not yet available
Satisfactory conditions. Camps
overrun by Russians,
Proposed to evacuate through
Dairon, 120 already left.
Guneral Percival and Senior Civil and Military officers were here.
Very bad conditions.
Three camps with hospital all under British Officers.
Medical and food suppl
lies dropped.
Hospital cases have been embarked on Hospital Ship OXFORDSHIRE.
NOTES:
25,001
80,000
(a) Swiss Minister in Tokyo and International Red
British Cross are giving full co-operation. Flagship is signalling names of P.0.W. recovered.
(b) No P.0.W. injured or killed at Hiroshima or
Nagasaki.
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