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Vol. I, No. 7.
CHINA MAIL
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER 100 YEARS
Tuesday, September 18th, 1945.
JAPANESE TREACHERY IN CANTON SECTOR
BUTCHER OF BELSEN ON TRIAL
Lunsberg, Sept. 17. Josef Kramer, comman- dant of the infamous Bel acn prison and concentra- tion camp, and 47 membera of his staf awaited in their celle o-day while a
military British
court completed preparation of their trial,
All are accused of "treat- ment causing death" of five specific individuals in addition to "evil treatment rauszug physical suffering" to allied nationala in the camp. Associated Press.
Homma Reveals His Joss
IN
Sabotage After Capitulation
THAT THERE HAS BEEN MUCH TREACHERY AND TRUCULENCE BY THE JAPANESE FORCES IN THE CANTON AREA, IS REVEALED IN A MESSSAGE FROM CHUNGKING.
AND THE HUNAN HIGHWAYS BETWEEN CANTON
SABO- DEEN DELIBERATELY BORDER HAVE TAGED, MANY BRIDGES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, AND VILLAGERS IN THE PATH OF JAPANESE FORCES HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND PILLAGED.
Оде report suggested that the position in Canton may de- velop critically, with the Japa nese arrogant and showing no disposition to submit straight-
the forwardly to
surronder order.
Japan's Election Orders
Elsewhere in China, the sur- render arrangemente
ceeding more smoothly, and a
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, G.C.B., K.B.E., thoroughly on- joying, with members of his crew in H.M.S. Duke of York, a moment of relaxation. (Official Navy Photograph.)
NINE AMERICAN PILOTS BUTCHERED IN HAINAN
relatively good altostion pre-FAMERICAN===PARATEQOR DEFICERS NOW IN HONG
HEADQUAR-offered
ότι
JAPANESE
TOKYO, SEPT. 17. vatla at Tientsin and Shanghai.
KONG, WHO LANDED AMID ARMED JAPANESE AT GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC- NAVY AT SHANGHAI
A HAINAN ISLAND PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP, DES- SUMMONED ARTHUR
The first American naval
CRIBED IN AN INTERVIEW YESTERDAY, HOW A PLUCKY YOUNG CALIFORNIAN TOOK COMMAND JAPAN'S PREMIER,unite, including a hospital ship PRINCE HIGASHI are to enter Shanghai up the BY SHEER BLUFF, TO RELIEF THE PRISONERS. KUNI, TO THEIR FIRST Whangpoo River on Wednes-THEY ALSO TOLD A GRIM TALE OF ATROCITY, OF
NINE
AIRMEN AT
AMERICAN LEAST the US Navy has MEETING IN MACARTHUR'S day, and
HOW
RAIDS LAUNCHED DOWN DU RING .BROUGHT repatriation Accom- YOKOHAMA
WERE TOR TERS TO-DAY
FROM BASES IN THE PHILIPPINES AND IN-modation to internees of overy STRUCTED HIM TO SET UP nationality,
the under- TURED AND PUT TO DEATH. ELECTORAL
that PROCE-Jatanding AN
they will be
Major John K. Singlaub, of taken to TOKYO, SEPT. 17 (A.P.) --
DURE.
poinf the nearcat the Sherman Oak, California, was PORTLY, BAGGY-SUITED LT-
He ordered that the Japan-where they can receive GEN, MASAHARU HOMMA, COMMANDER OF JAPANESE ese people, including women care of their own governments. ln charge of the party, wind be should be giving voting rights. Few have yet shown willing-asserted that positive evidence INVASION FORCES IN
1941-42
MacArthur kept
being the prince ness to avail themselves of the had been obtained of threw JAPANE
beheadeć TO-DAY THAT HE waiting for 32 minutes, opportunity as the majority of Americans
THE "MARCH OF He also ordered the Japan- the 6,000 internees appear in att they had been tortdreil DECEIT ALLEGED
wires piercing OF AMERICAN AND use government to make a full clined to stay put in Shanghai.bound with
__and their arms,.
paradec FILIPINOS FROM BATAAN-A accounting of all allied proper Wireless.
through the streets with sigas MARCH IN WHICH HUNDREDS
ty destroyed during the war.
thi are "These DAILY PATROLS
reading OR WERE KILLED.
It was believed the Supreme Bome survivore of the tortuous!
Chungking, Sept. 17 (AP).- American devils who bombed.' sharper dictated
These three victims of Japa From Pelping in the north march first told after their escape Commander
до P-16's prisoners being bayonet orders for the Japanese Gov- French Indo-China,
had been cap to couse its double P-38's (fighters) of the Americat nese savagery. ed or shot when they dropped of ernment
Japan. after coming down..in sheer exhaustion or thirst.
talk and deceit.
14th airforce are maintainintured
and reaching and by General Homme said, however. As soon as MacArthur moves daily patrols to report on militar the sea in an interview that he is ready his headquarters to Tokyo, it is activities of any kind along Chia life-rafts,
ONE ESCAPES "to take responsibility for any
expected Emperor Hirohito will ese railroads, rivers and roads.
STAFF - SERGEANT. acts of my subordinates."
official call. He surrendered to Kanagaw
All Japanese Tivilians and RIGHARD-GAUDET, WHO prefectural police for allled ques- man who is giving his govern-'
troops ore evacuating Canton WAS IN THE SAME PLANE, tioning. He was accompanied by ment its orders.-A.P.
Troops are being disarmed and ESCAPED THEIR FATE. LL-Gea. Shigenori Kuroda, who
concentrated outside the city.
He was swimming for eight
in
1948
aucceeded him as Japanese com.
make
an
mander in the Philippines. The JAP NAVY
spont their first night in Yoko-
hama priso MISTAKE"
Homma expressed surprise his
DIDN'T
on the
name was on General MacArthur' WANT WARTM
EVACUATING CANTON
+
Formal capitulation of Japan hours and reached a part of
London, Sept. 17 (AP.)~~A Moscow radio commentator, Yermashov, anid the Japanese Black Dragon society, whic General MacArthur has order- ed dissolved, is continuing under the name of the Poll tical Association of Greater
Will Never Recover
WILL
Price 10 cts.
Rush to Get Rid Of Yen
.
THE PROGRESSIVELY RAPID DEPRECIATION OF THE JAPANESE MILITARY YEN TELLS ITS OWN STORY
THOUGH THE PROGRESS THUS FAR ACHIEVED IN
WESENG THE A.K. DOLLAR.
TION
INTO FREE CIRCULA
BATI EMASS, FAR FROM
THE WORST STAGE OF DISRUPTION PRO. VOKED BY THE CURRENCY PROCLAMATION MAT DE RE- GARDED AS OVER.
tentativa
Yesterday, after a period, the unofficial yen-dollar rate became stabilised, át, roughly 450 to 1.
In the late afternoon, avel this figure was purely nominal, mory-changera had hurriedly closed their doors on account of a sudder rash of persons trying to change yen into legal tender.
don of
the more pretentious shopping establishments are refusing to accept military yen in payment for goods, and smaller traders are rapidly falling into Hne.
PRICES ELSISTANT
TKOW
The more important task-now that the dollar has established a foothold -stubbornly ethntial
resists solution. Prico levels terms of the now currency remain fantastically high.
Variations are too extreme for an average to be struck, but few times prices are less than ten greater than pre-war and many are a hundredfold. In ordinary economic terms, scarcity in hardly the primary explanation, as money
scarce
Ferny is list of murkot quotations yesterday:
Mutton Pork
Chicken
Thuck Egg
Duck Egg Olt: (Pennut) Flour
Bugar (White)
(Brown)
HKS M.Y.
0.00-2,700
7:00 3:370
8.00. 3.680
10.00 4.600
7,00 0,200
200
16.00 0,280 4.00 1,800 3.50 1,670
3.00 1,870
M
(Cakes) (Crystal)
8.00 1,370
8.80 1,700
Fish:
Wong
Fa
1.20
540.
Pak Chong
2.00
DOO
2.40 1,100
2.00. 900
Yue
Lap Vegetable:
Potato
Onilons ---Tomato -
go fortes in the Kiukiang Nan the coast from which he suc- CHUNGKING SEPT. 17
Sweet Potato Friday. was effected ng Area
Toro led by ceeded in making contact with (AP) MANY AMERICANS Eight Japanese were
When he NEVER guerillas. handed his Chinese
RECOVER H.K.S (Per 100). Gen. Kasahara who
Yan. was found by the paratroop FROM THE sword to General Lu Tao
ILLNESS AND C.N. (Per 100)
THEY SUZ disarmed as squad, he was found to be "STARVATION Japanese are to be
reorganisation is com- excellent health.
FERED IN JAPANESE PRI- Three other American air SON CAMPS, MAJ. EUGENE AMERICAN AID
men found and rescued BY JACOBS, A SURGEON CAP Chungking, Sept. 17.
aquad were
obviously TURED IN THE PHILIP- Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer,
lucky to have escaped with PINES, SAID ON HIS - AR-
list of war criminals. He said he
Tokyo, didn't think the Bataan march was
Sept, 17 (A.P.). BOON D5
☐pleted.-A.P. such a tough one and continued: Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, "We lost the
war-there must member of the Japanese suprome! the Associated war council, told have been some mistake."
Ho denied knowledge of atroci. Press in an interview to-day that'
the Japanese navy was opposed United States army commander
tics.
1942
the
their lives.
RIVAL HERE. with the United States, in the Chinese theatre to-day
of his
They were Lieutenant James Most men he McGuire, of Grant's Pass,
Texas.
tried to care |
2.50 1,120
.25
120
Soong And Attlee Talk
.85
80
160 140 45,000
Minister
Of his Philippines conquest into war
The Chinese Primo he said he was about to con- knowing it would be doomed from described the mission clade his assault on Corregidor at the start because of Manila bay's extrunce
net forces in Ching at the present Oregon, Captain Merritt Law for, he said, with almost (Mr. T. V. Scong), Chinese For WAS a tremendous industrial capacity. time failure. when the defenders under
as being only to help is, of Indianapolis, and Staff medicine or equipment, died eign Minister and Chinese Am- Ho said: "Once the decision
Chinese Government troops Lt. Gen. Jonathan
Wainwright for war was made, all naval of- surrendered. He said he believed ficers naturally were obliged by disarm, repatriate and demo Sergeant Muller, of El Paso. either from dysentery or starbassador (Dx. Wellington. Koo)
bilize Japanese units.-AFG. theHe said the Japanese never ja ciated Press.
Itended to invade Hawall because Homma said he had under- they lacked a large enough fleet estimated the Corregidor garrison to maintain supply lines. Aoso strength and admitted American ciated Press. shelling swamped 28 of 50 Japan.
if the sick, crippled, weary garri duty to continue to fight." -son-had-been-able-to- tako
offensive "they would have won."
ose landing bonta in the assault,
Halsey's Horse
JOSE LAUREL
UNDER ARREST
JAPAN'S LAST DITCH DEFENCE
vation. He reported, however were the guests at lancheon of the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, nt Both Lawls and Muller were one Japanese doctor named Chequers a few hours after the Juro Ok in':a Mukden prison arrival of Mr. Soong by air from camp disregarded Instructions Paris.
of the Japanese army and gave The Italian Foreign Minister the best attention possible, even has been called in by the Council buying medicine from his own pocket.
handcuffed
paraded and through the streets.
ILANDCUFFED TO CELL Later, they were placed in cells two feet by three feet and handcuffed to the cell walls for a month.
Because his back had been
(Continued on Page 4)
Jacobs, said that thanks to Oki the Mukden death rate was
TOKYO, SEPT. 17 (A.P.)~~~~| THE FINAL REPORT OF THE burned. Captain Lawlis had to the lowest of any war prison. DISBANDED IMPERIAL GEN- TOKYO SEPT 17 (AP) ERAL HEADQUARTERS BE HAD JAPAN JOSE LAUREL, PHILIPPINES VEALED THAT
ADMIRAL HALSEY, HERO JAPANESE OCCUPATION AROUND THE
WAS AMONG SEVERAL PER RESIST ANY INVASION.
The
PUPPET PRESIDENT DURING 1976-GUICIEMAMASSED
OF THE SECOND BATTLE SONS TAKEN INTO MILITARY OF THE PHILIPPINES, WHO CUSTODY YESTERDAY.
ΤΟ
craft included 278. midget submarines, of the type that struck
"the"
tho Pearl harbour attack,
CABLE SERVICE
COAL DRIVE IN BRITAIN
THE DRIVE IN BRITAIN FOR 8 MILLION EXTRA TONS OF COAL WILL BE IN FULL
The National Coal Production
EXPRESSED “A WISH RE- Others included Lt. Generalt 203 human torpedoes, with Telegraphic communication SWING THIS WEEK, CENTLY TO RIDE EMPEROR Homma and Kuroda, Col. Kingord which fanatieal Japanese were to
·HIROHITO'S FAMOUS Hashimoto, the officer blamed for go to their deaths: 1,499. small with the outside world has WHITE HORSE, WAS RID- the Panay gunboat sinking on the suleide bonte, used for rimming been re-established now for Council will meet the Fuel Minis ING A HORSE IN TOKYO Yangtze before the war: Yoshitaks ships with powerful explosive some days, messages being actor, Mr. Shinwell, for two days
Ueda, Japancas geo-political ex charges."
YESTERDAY..
Foreign Ministera who have pont much time dealing with the future of Italian colonies. The American Amasandor to Italy: has: left Rome by air for London. Reuter,
JAPANESE TO ADMIT THE TRUTH
in all areas that were under their
General Douglas MacArthur has issued an order to Japanese news- men, tolling them to state that he dictating to their Emperor and not, as they had previously report ed, "consulting" with him. ~The Japanese pross were also ordered to tell the people of Japan of the atrocities of the Japanese forces cepted between the hours of this week.
An official of the coal mining occupation. Wirelona, a.m. and 6 p.m. by Cable and
every miner Wireless, Ltd., in their offices Industry said that
would have to produce an exis NAZIS STILL TRYING of Gloucester Building,
The charge per word to any ton a week if the target was to the 1st US-Cavalry Division ARMADA NOW AT BATAWA Soviet administrative bodies part of the British Empire is he realised, Reuter
have been set up for industry and $1 for ordinary teograma, the in Tokyo on a tour of inspec
General MacArthur has orde An Allled occupation armed agriculture in Russian-controlled rate of exchange being is. 3. the Japanese to submit si det tion.
It was quite a short ride, a where the Japanese garrison naked!
bas dropped anchor off. Batavia parts of Germany.
and 11 deferred messages the In Berlin certain- companies and
abroad especially in Germany Halsoy confoased nfterwards they could retain their arms, industrial, frms have been started charge is '60 conta: per word, uport of their assets at homes his suicide attempt that he
NLT (Night letter elegrams of other Axis countries. The Jap that it was the first time in his fearing that there may be upris without permission, with leading 25 words) Nro also accepted at sko have boon van 16 days fon tal in 10 days or two weeke Ufo that he had been "aboard" ings against them. Their request Nasis connected, with the organi
horse-Wireless.
wan disallowed.-Witeless.
But it was not the Emperor's port; Binigno Aquino, president of and it was not white.
the pappot Philippines. nationa The horse was provided. All-Inasembly, miral Halsey when he visited
sukons.— Reutor,
the flat rate of 12.50 each.
the purpose-Houter.
"TOJO'S RECOVERY
Former
Yokohama, Sept. 17..
Japanese Premier Tojo is maiding such rapid pro- gress from wounds suffered in
may be able to leave the hospi-
Associated Press.