DEFEAT NOT REALISED
NOR GUILT JAPAN RECALCITRANT (Rec. 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 31. ' "It is evident from what we have been told that a struggle is occurring among the Japanese people as the? try to face the fact of defeat, before"their powerful armies were sent into' action, said the ' New York Times ' correspondent. " Many are reported to be committing suicide because they feel they cannot live, with hunger, and the country occupied by American soldiers. Others told interviewers that they feared the Americans would exact a terrible vengeance for Pearl Harbour and the subsequent bloody battles. " However, it is clear that the Japanese generally do not realise the completeness of their defeat, nor their guilt in the series of war crimes from the outbreak. To-night, August 29, when guards' were still beating Allied prisoners, Japanese officers insisted that the surrender was not yet formally signed, and the present was a 'truce ' during which they were not obliged to do more than a minimum.
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Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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164DEFEAT NOT REALISED Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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