DISPUTED QUESTION
Missing Filipino Prisoners (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) TOKIO. Oct. 2. The Japanese Government, replying to General MacArthur's demand for information of what happened to 1000 Fllininos missing from their reconquered homes, and of whom no trace had been discovered. said there had been no wholesale transfers of Filipino prisoner- north. w«-re released in the Philippines themselves. The Tokio correspondent of the “New York Times” says the Japanese statement reopens the entire subject of the enemv 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 aboard merchantmen, at 'east a few of which were sunk by Allied bombers, because the Japanese failed to mark evacuation ships with listinauishinc symbols. Meanwhile there are dozens of Filipinos in Yokohama gaol who obviously were taken from the Philippines to Japan in the last davs of the war.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23321, 3 October 1945, Page 5
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155DISPUTED QUESTION Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23321, 3 October 1945, Page 5
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