Show I. I ir I d S.- S. Jap p Held H eld Yanks ahks f Face ac Malnutrition Deaths W WASHINGTON ON Feb 16 16 Several P Seve Several l thousand housand United St Stat States t s citizens still held by the Jap Japanese nese in n the orient congress wa was informed Wednesday are facing death through malnutrition The disclosure was made by Breckinridge Long assistant secretary sec ec- ec of state during hearings on the state stat department appropriation I t tion n bill bi reported to th the house by bythe bythe bythe the appropriations committee Discussing plans to bring the Americans back home Long told the committee some of them have lost Jost from 50 to to to 60 60 pounds in weight not through illness but through gh malnutrition They do not get the elements element in the food th that t are sufficient to toco co constitute the basis of life according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to our standards he hc ex cx- We have people over there that are given a Japanese diet That Japanese di diet t consists of a certain amount of ot rie rice a littie little lit lit- lt- lt tie tle fish frequently spoiled and te a little meat maybe a apiece apiece apiece piece of of fruit once a week or once a month and sometimes vege vege- tables s. s It I is adequate probably for the te Japanese to live lve on because because because be be- cause they have been raised that way but but our people cannot live lve on it i. i Some Som of ot the Americans are arc In Interned Interned In In- in the Philippines some in Shanghai some in Korea Korea some in lii ir Japan and some in Manchuria Ng Negotiations for the return of about bout 1000 1500 of th thOrn them m Long said had been started at the time disturbances disturbances dis dis- dis br ke out at the Tle Tule TuleLake TuleLake Lake Cal J Japanese anese detention center center cen cen- ter and t the Japanese promptly halted haled the thc n negotiations until they could investigate the treatment a of f the nationals in n the United States An Investigation was made by bythe the Spanish embassy on behalf by of Japan L Long ng said and on the presumption pro pre the Spanish report would be be satisfactory sa to T Tokyo kyo the Unit United ed States renewed its is offer to negotiate negotiate ne nc ne- ne for tor the return of more of our nationals Their reply was no that they would prefer to wait and to do this In their own ow way Long said So w we arc h hung ng up for tor the time being on on that Long t told ld the committee the transfer was to have been made on the thelner liner under charter char char- ter to the state depart department ent The which already has made ade two to trips tips to exchange prisoner prisoners prisoners pris pris- oner with wit Japan sailed saied from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York for or or Lisbon Tuesday to carry carryout carryout carryout out an exchange with wit Germ Germany ny state depar department ment Nathaniel P. P Davis foreign for for- eign service te committee heard how United States SUites foreign foreign's s 's service officers captured in ManUa ManUa Ma Ma- nUa were treated On the whole we were treated treat treat- cd ed correctly by the Japanese Davis Davis Da Da- Da- Da vis said They did not push us s around There were som men that ve we name oame in contact with wih that tat you might might call cal roughnecks but but on the whole we were treated fairly fairly fair fair- tIc ly well wel They bothered J. J us very lit lit- lt |