CAMP NEAR STEEL WORKS
23 PRISONERS KILLED BY BOMBS (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 31. Held in a small unmarked camp within a few hundred yards from the Nippon steel works, which were high on the list. of Super-Fortress targets, 15 British and eight American prisoners were killed in recent raids, reports the Associated Press correspondent in Yokohama. Many more from Kawasaki camp, lb as it was labelled, died from malnutrition. Some 200 were freed almost simultaneously with the air-borne landings at Atsugi yesterday. A Domei Agency broadcast anr nounced that 17, including -five war prisoners, were killed and 35 injured by bundles of supplies dropped on prisoners' and internees' camps. The Allied Command was. asked to take more care in dropping supplies.
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Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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124CAMP NEAR STEEL WORKS Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 7
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