Labels:text | paper | font | publication | letter | book | document OCR: 2. wearing. The food supplied, normally rice, occasionally vegetables, and weak teu with no milk nor sugar, was less than half that supplied by our own Prisons Dept. as punishment diet for Asiutics. It was insufficient to sup- port life over a long period and led to serious deficiency diseases in all cases of long detention. Medical facilities afforded, whether visits or medical personnel or the supply of medicines or drugs, were for all practical purposes non- existent. In many cases our own doctors sharing the cell with the sick nade urgent requests for prompt medical attention on their behalf, particularly in cases where the victim was on the point of death, but these requests were invariably ignored. In one case a Japanese doctor, who was called to see an Internee surfering From a fractured pelvis and possibly ruptured kidney, remarked that the man was not sick enough, The three women taken from Changi Prison were detained in exactly the same conditions &s the men and shared cells with mule prisoners of all races. They were afforded no privacy, even for their most intimate require- ments, and any attempt on the part of European men to screen them wes broken down by the guards. They were subjected to insults and obscene gestures by Japanese prisoners in the same cell and the Japanese prisoners, with the assent of the guards, tried to compel them to perform the most sordid tasks in the cell. The buildings occupied by the Japanese Military Police resounded all day and all night with blows, the bellowing of the inquisitors, and the shrieks of the tortured. From time to time victims from the tortures chambe ers would stag er back or, if unconscious, would be drag ed back to their cells with marks of their illtreatment on their bodies. In one such case an Inconscious victim so returned died during the night, without receiving any medical attention, and his body was not removed until the afternoon. In these conditions, and this atmosphere of terror, these men and women waited, some- times for months, their summons to interrogation, which might come at any hour of the day or night. Usually interrogation started quietly and would so continue as long as the inquisitors got the expected answers. If, for any reason, such answers were not forthcoming physical violence was immediately employed .. The methods used vere: - (1) Bouting with iron bars, bruss rods, sticks, bomboos, wet knotted ropes, belts with buckles, or revolver butts all over the body. While these beatings were being inflicted the victims were sometimes suspended by the wrists from a rope passed over a beam. Sometimes their hands were tied behind their backs and they were forced to knowl on sharp pieces of wood or iron, while sharp-edged pieces of wood or metal were placed behind their knees so as to cut into the flesh as they knelt. While they were so kneeling the Japanese would jump on their thighs or on the projecting ends of the bar of wood behind their knees; sometimes, to increase the pressure on the bar or wood behind their knees, a Japa- nose would perch himself on the shoulders of the victim, or the victim,
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