10,000 NOW IN JAPAN
BRITISH AND INDIAN UNITS EXTENDED ZONE LIKELY (10 n.m.) KURE, March 5. Wjjth .the arrival of 2000 British and Indian troops from Bombay yesterday, the number of British occupation troops in the I-Ijroshima prefecture of Japan reached about 10,000, reports Reuter's correspondent. Thirty-thousand more are Scheduled to arrive. The latest arrivals include contingents of the Cameron Highlanders, Dorsetshire Regiment and Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Authoritative British sources said if was expected that the eventual British occupation area would include all Honshu, south and west of Okayama, and also the entire island of Shikoku.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 5
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