BELATED SURRENDER
GROUP OF JAPANESE CORREGIDOR ISLAND (Rec. 0.5 a.m.) MANILA, Jan 2. Twenty Japanese soldiers and sailors who have been hiding in caves on Corregidor Island, in Manila Bay, sime its recapture, surrendered to the amazed American Graves Registration Detail. Waving surrender flags and carrying a surrender document, the group marched into the Graves Registration Company area, and made the startled Americans think they were having a New Year’s heebie jeebies.” The Japanese said they were forced underground in February by the American bombardment, and did not learn of the surrender until several weeks ago, when they found an old newspaper. The group led a mole-like existence in the deeo recesses of a cave, amply provisioned with rice and dehydrated vegetables. The Japanese went out at night to obtain water.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26041, 3 January 1946, Page 5
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