WAR CRIMINALS
JAPANESE SUSPECTS
Leaders Sent To Island In
Tokyo Bay
Rec. 11.30 a.m. TOKYO, Oct. 5. Twenty-one suspected Japanese war criminals, including seven members of the Pearl Harbour Cabinet, have been transferred from Yokohama-gaol to a deloused prison
camp on Omori Island, in Tokyo Bay, where they will eat food served from large wooden buckets and sleep on mats on the floor. They have been quartered according to their rank, General Masaharu Homma and Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, the former Navy Minister, and some others getting private compartments.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 5
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