RELIEF TEAMS FROM AIR
(IJO p.lll ) NEW YORK, Aug. 20The Federal*Communications Commission picked up a broadcast from the Japanese General Staff to General MacArthur declaring that the dropping of parachutists at prison camps “without giving previous notice” was endangering the smooth cessation of hostilities. Ihe broadcast requested General MacArthur to prevent a recurrence of such incidents and added: “We have made those who came to Mukden and Hong lvong return to their bases.” Leaflets were dropped from planes telling the Japanese that the parachutists were coming for humanitarian reasons, says the Associated Press correspondent in Chungking. The teams were dropped at nine places which are the centres of over <lO camps in Mukden, Peiping, Wcihsien, Korea, Shanghai, Hainan, Formosa, Indo-China and in the Canton-Hong-Kong area. In Chungking, United States headquarters said that large numbers of prisoners and internees held in Japanesc camps could be released only after Allied forces occupied the camps, to which they will be moved by sea and air.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 August 1945, Page 5
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