JAPANESE OUSTED.
RUSSIANS REACH PRISON CAMP (Rec. 12.30) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The humanitarian team in Mukden quoted the Russians as saying that a Liberator is on the way to fetch MajorGeneral Wainwright, says the correspondent of the Associated Press in Chungking. The Russian mission reached the prison camp and immediately ousted the Japanese guards and placed an American, Major-General George Parker, who was captured at Bataan, in full charge. Reports from the team at Peiping stated that all internees there were moved to hotels. A message from Manila reports that an injured American pilot, Captain Dan Shaw, was released by the Japanese iri the Philippines with a personal note from General Yamashita. Shaw said he parachuted from a burning fighter behind the Japanese lines, was held prisoner for nine days and threatened with torture if he refused to yield information, but the treatment improved the day after the Emperor’s capitulation was announced.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 268, 23 August 1945, Page 5
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