FORCES OUTSIDE JAPAN

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 5

FORCES OUTSIDE JAPAN

Estimated At 3,000,000 NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Military experts estimate that 3,000,000 Japanese are deployed outside Japan proper, and they will have to be repatriated, mainly by the Allies, because Japan has not enough ships left for the task, says the Washington correspondent of the Associated Press.

The forces are disposed as follows: Burma 60.000, Thailand 55,000, IndoChina 110,000, Malaya 95,000, Java 45,000, Borneo 35,000, Celebes 55,000, New Guinea 42,000, Timor area 70,000. Solomons-Blsmarck area 75,000 to 80,000. Philippines 55.000, Manchuria 650,000 to 700,000. Korea more than 300,000, Formosa more than 300.000, China, north of the Lunghai railway 31,000, East China, between the Yangtse and Yellow Rivers 200,000 South China 485,000, former Japanese mandates 120,000, Karafuto and Kuriles 115,000. One of General MacArthur's first demands from the Japanese undoubtedly will be the speedy return of Lieu-tenant-General E. Wainwright and other Americans captured in the Philippines. An Army spokesman said that 18 generals and 113 colonels and a number of enlisted men were with Lieu-tenant-General Wainwright, who was last reported in Hoten prison camp, m the Mukden area. The Japanese are estimated to hold more than 20.000 American prisoners, including about 3300 civilians.