THREE MILLION JAPS.
DEPLOYED OUTSIDE HOMELAND • . _ NEW YORK, August 16. Military experts estimate that 3.000,000 Japanese deployed outside Japan proper will have to* be repatriated, mainly by the Allies, because Japan has not enough ships left for the task, says the. Washington correspondent of the Associated Press. The forces are disposed as follows:—Burma 60.000, Thailand, 55,000, Indo-China 110.000. Malaya, 95,000, Java 45,000, Borneo 35,000, Celebes 55,000, New Guinea 42.000, Timor area 70,000, Solomons-Bismarck area 75,000 to 80.000, Philippines 45,000, Manchuria 650,000 to 700,000, Korea over 300,000. Formosa over 300,000, China northward of the Lunchai railway 310,000, East China between the Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers 200,000. South China 485,000, former Japanese mandates 120,000, Karafu to the Kuriles 115,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 8
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