MISSION TO JAPAN
“ATMOSPHERE OF WARTIME SECRECY” \ (Rec. 11.15) SYDNEY, This Day. Three Chaplaine-General to the Australian armed forces and Major-Gene-ral C. E. M. Lloyd left Sydney by air for Japan last night in what the “Sydney Morning Herald” describes as an “atmosphere of wartime secrecy.” The chaplains were the Reverends A. H. Stuart, A. Brooke and Father T. McCarthy. All four officers denied that their visit to Japan was concerned in any way Avith the investigation into recent allegations of black-marketing and immorality made against memoers of the occupation forces by the President of the Legion of Ex-servicemen, Mr B. J. McDonald.
General Lloyd, avlio was in civilian sports clothes, and avlio filled in a civilian flight document, denied his identity to a “Herald” reporter, and said his name Avas Brown. He refused to be photographed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 144, 31 March 1948, Page 3
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