JAP. ARMY OF 40,000 REPORTED HIDING IN GREAT MOUNTAIN RANGE
TOKIO, July 14. Forty thousand Japanese soldiers and 10,000 civilians are still hiding in the great Chang-pai-shan mountain range, which separates Manchuria from Korea, according to repatriates who have just arrived from Manchuria. The president of the Japanese Residents’ Association in Southern Manchuria, Eukujiro Kuki, one of the latest repatriates to arrive in Japan, said the soldiers were part of the Kwantung army. When the war ended they were preparing a large-scale counter-attack against the Russians. They were determined not to surrender either to the Chinese Communists or to the Russians, and moved into the mountain range before troops could disarm them. According to Kuki, there were still more than 40.000 soldiers in the army under the direction of fanatical officers. Their food supply was expected to last two years. Kuki said: “ Their army is well organised and thoroughly disciplined. Not one soldier has so far escaped from the mountain range.” [Chang-pai-shan is known as the “ ever-wnite mountain.” When it is not white with snow, it is white with pumice. 1
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Evening Star, Issue 26153, 15 July 1947, Page 5
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