WAR PRISONER CASUALTIES IN RAIDS
Kec. 11 a.m. NEW YORK, August 31. Fifteen British and eight American prisoners, in a small, unmarked camp •within a few hundred yards of the Nippon Steel Works, which was high on the list of Super-Fortress targets, ■were killed in recent raids, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press in Yokohama. Many more in the Kawasaki camp died of malnutrition. Some 200 were freed almost simultaneously with the airborne landings qt Atsugi yesterday. A Domei news agency broadcast announced that 17 persons, including five prisoners of war, were killed and 35
injured by bundles of supplies dropped on prisoners' and internees' camps. The Allied Command has t>?en asked to take more care in dropping supplies.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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