Liberate Jap. Camp With 1670 Prisoners
(Rec. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 24. The Red Army in the Mukden area liberated an Allied war prisoners’ camp containing 1670 officers and men, including 28 generals, reports a Russian communique.
Russian airborne troops occupied Seoul, capital of Korea. Troops of the 2nd Far Eastern Front captured the town and fort of Honto, on Karafuto Island. Fourteen thousand Japanese surrendered yesterday.
Reuter says the liberated camp is one probably 100 miles north-west of Mukden. American medical and signal corps men who parachuted into the camp earlier, reported that the Russian mission had replaced the Japanese commander by an American, Major-General Parker.
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Northern Advocate, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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