ILLEGAL ENTRY
JAPANESE IN KOREA
(Rec. 10.25 a.m.) SEOUL, June 12. Eighteen thousand Japanese, mostly civilians, who slipped into _ South Korea illegally from Manchuria and Russian-occupied North Korea, will be shipped to Japan within a week. They are held in refugee camps at Seoul, and at several seaport towns, awaiting transportation, in Japanesemanned Liberty ships and landing The Japanese movement into South Korea began early in March, and by the end. of May was estimated at 200 U a day. The Chief of Plans and Training for the 24th Corps, Colonel J. B. Coolidge, said the United States Army protested to the Russians against the beamy migration, adding that the indications were that the Russians were taking action to stop it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 206, 13 June 1946, Page 5
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