JAPANESE DEMOBILISATION
CHECKING UP ON PROPERTY (Rec. 7 p.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 29. The Jaoanese War Department has Informed General MacArthur that 1,833,634, or 81 per cent., of the soldiers in the home islands were demobilised by September 24, leaving 419,366 for discharge. Colonel Kramer, chief of General MacArthur’s economic and scientific section, said that the imperial assets would be subject to increasingly close Allied scrutiny. All property owners would be treated exactly alike. He said it was known that the Emperor possessed holdings in banks in Korea and Formosa.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25962, 1 October 1945, Page 5
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