TOKIO RADIO SCOOPS
PACIFIC WAR FINALE ALLIED PRESSMEN TIED MANILA, Aug. 24. The Japanese, whose radio Tokio has consistently scooped war correspondents at American Pacific Headquarters, offered to-day to extend the fullest facilities to the Allied press after the occupation. Thus develops one of the strangest situations of the dizzy finale of a war by which correspondents found the enemy radio always their most potent competitor in reporting major events, says the Associated Press’ correspondent. The outlines of General MacArthur’s landing plans, dates of occupation, etc., were announced here only because the Tokio radio has been broadcasting the plans while the American correspondents at Manila sat helplessly, unable to cable the stories.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 27 August 1945, Page 4
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112TOKIO RADIO SCOOPS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 27 August 1945, Page 4
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