STATE OF CONFUSION

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7

STATE OF CONFUSION

WAR PRISON CAMPS

NEW YORK, August 28,

Tokio radio states that Allied prisoners of war and internees in Japan are refusing to obey the camp authorities. The Japanese Government has informed General Mac Arthur of this, urging him to instruct the troops to maintain order. The Government asserted that untoward incidents might happen if they obtained arms and ammunition. The Japanese say that prisoners at a camp at Kobe have refused since August 19 to listen to the orders of the camp authorities. They ran away in small groups, broke - into storehouses and stole canned foods and beer, and entered civilian homes and annoyed women and girls. The camp at Osaka has also fallen into a state of confusion. ', _~ , ■ The Japanese declared that their views are shared by representatives of the protecting Powers. The Japanese are reported to be preparing 6125 Allied prisoners of war and 94 civilians near Atsugi airfield for aerial evacuation on Thursday. Four hundred are hospital cases. A Swiss representative of the International Red Cross has informed Rear-Admiral Badger than 5000 out of 34,000 American prisoners in Japan are sick. Dysentery is prevalent. A Swiss representative who has . traversed Manchuria has declared that the Japanese are un-coperative and the transportation is bad.