We reported the investigation Japanese army plundered Chinese labor to Japan on 13 th and 16 th in December. Yesterday the investigation got an astonishing clue: an old man living in Shanghai told experts and reporters that 1700 Chinese labor were forced to south Pacific island to be coolie.
  Mr Lizongyuan, director of Chinese people Sino-Japanese war memorial hall edit and research bureau, told reporter that according to present research, it is an important discovery in the labor history, for it has not been recorded by either Japanese or Chinese.
  Miss Guan, the daughter- in- law of the 87-year-old survivor Shi fangzhou, told reporter in Shenzhen:
  In 1939, when Shi fangzhou visited his wife in Shengsu of Wuhsien in Jiangsu province during the summer vacation, he was grasped by the Japanese army, then he was escorted to Nanjing. He was detained with thousands of Chinese labor by the Japanese army to the freighter at Woosung port. During the navigation lasting for one month, for lacking in the food and fresh water, some laborers died.
  Shifangzhou recollected :
  Some laborers who asked the soldier for fresh water were thrown into the sea , the other laborers being in the spot. Some labor had to drink his urine. The freight arrived at Papua, Neoguinea, which was occupied by the Japanese army. The living 1700 Chinese laborers started their grieving experience. They built the cave, trench and suffered the Japanese army and the tropic mosquitoes. Some laborers whose skins  got rotten were forced to dig the pit to bury themselves alive.
  When the allied army gradually seized each island. The Japanese had ordered the laborers dig the cave, planned to bury the laborers alive. But the hurried withdraw frustrated the plan. The Australian army took over them. One year and half later, the international red-across delivered them to China. There were only 800 men alive then.
  Shi fangzhou said that the Japanese army seized 110 men in the Shengze town of Wushien county of Jiangsu province. Only he came back  alive!
  Miss Guan told reporter that she had wrote down what the old man said on 30 pieces paper. It is surprised that the old man kept the photos of that time. It is said that at that time there were maneating tribes on the island.
  Oi zongyuan told reporter: there were no data on the Chinese labor scattered outside the Japan. If the news is true, the Chinese labor were used not only in Japan , but also in other place seized by Japanese.