Tokyo, Nov. 11.
Detailed accounts of the conditions prevalent in the prison camps where Russians and Chinese hay een concentrated have been sent to the Japanese press by its cor respondents in. Manchuria, all. of whom state that. medical men Eravely fear lest plague should be the next result of the Sino-Soviet Imbroglio and lest the outbreak start from the prison concentration camps.
Thousands of non-combatants have been clapped into these prison camps where, it is said, they are cing treated in a most inhuman manner. These correspondents warn the Japanese public against. being too gullible in regard to the charges of atrocities that the Chinese and the Russians have, ith bitter and mutual reeriminamn, aid at each other's doors.
assert that both sides have already been guilty of gross forms ill-treatment and brutal hu mili m of defenceless non-combatants, cluding women, and that, in the final analysis, the charges' resolve: themselves into six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
'The Russian prisoners held by the Chinese are said to be, for the most part, civilians connected ith the C. E.R. whom the Rus: sian authorities could not, or did not care to, repatriate' before: relations with' China were severed, and these are concentrated mainly] in the Sunbei detention camp, on] the outskirts of Harbin' ' Dr. Stobbe, German consul-general, who is looking after Russian interests]
Manchuria, recently paid a visit to this camp and is said to have remarked that it is far worse than were prison camps during the Great War at their worst. Men, women and children are herded.together worse than cattle and with Tess elbow room; food was palatable and under-nourishing; there was no hot water available and not enough water to wash properly; while as for sanitary. conditions—"there simply aren't
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