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two million jap homes Recd. 7 p.m. New York, Sept. 5. Jigashikuni told the Diet that Allied air raids resulted in 2,200,000 homos being burned, hundreds ot thousands of Japanese being killed or wounded, and also 10,000,000 war sufferers. Eighth Army- Headquarters announced that some members of the disbanded Kimpeitai, Japan’s notorious Gestapo, will be used to augment civilian police in Yokohama and Tokio. They will have no authority beyond minor guard duty but will be empowered to arrest Japanese civilians. Headquarters also announced that Iva Toguri, known to the troops as “Tokio Rose,” was detained for questioning. Toguri is under arrest as an American citizen. Toguri, interviewed before her arrest, denied that , she called Americans in the South Pacific forgotten men or stated that the Americans’ wives were unfaithful while the troops were away.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 5
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