FATE OF FILIPINOS
ONE THOUSAND MISSING JAPANESE QUESTIONED (Rec. 7 p.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 2. The Japanese Government, replying to General MacArthur’s demand for information about what had happened to 1000 Filipinos missing from their reconquered homes, and of whom no trace could be discovered, said there were no wholesale transfers of Filipino prisoners to the north. All were released in the Philippines themselves. The Tokio correspondent of the New York Times says the Japanese statement reopens the entire subject of the enemy treatment of prisoners captured in the early stages of the Philippines campaign, which is one of the most disputed questions of the Pacific war. The Japanese loaded thousands of prisoners on board merchantmen, at least a few of which were sunk by Allied bombers because the Japanese failed to mark evacuation ships with distinguishing symbols. In the meantime there are dozens of Filipinos in Yokohama gaol who were ooviously taken from the Philippines to Japan in the last days of the war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25964, 3 October 1945, Page 5
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