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PERTH SURVIVORS.
NO. OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION.
MELBOURNE. April 26.
The Pnme Minister (Mr. J. Curtin)
said that he was unable to confirm the
Domci (Japanese) news agency statement
that 250 members of the crew of H.MA.S.
Perth had succeeded in swimming ashore
after the cruiser foundered off Java on
February 28.
Mr. Curtin emphasised that until the
Japanese authorities were prepared to
modify their present attitude towards
prisoners of war little could be done to
relieve the anxiety of relatives of Aus-
tralian servicemen taken prisoner by the
Japanese.
Mr. Curtin said that although .'the
Japanese Government had undertaken to
observe the Geneva Prisoners of War
Convention very little information had
been received from them about prisoners
of Var.
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