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    "ocrText": "WAR DEPARTMENT\nCLA-SIFIED MESSAGE CENTER\nINCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGE\n(E)\n3(E) and 1972 5(D) or\nTOT\nE.O. letter, May 3,\nBYNECH OSD NARS\nOPERATIONAL PRIORITY\nPage 4.\nFrom: Commender in Chief, Army Forces, Pacific, Advance,\nTokyo, Japan\nNr:\nCA 52414\n28 September 1945\nThey usually looted at night and acted belligerently\nif anyone tried to interfere.\nMany hundreds of Korean and Japenese women in the\nvicinity helped feed the prisoners ofter the Japs were\nthrown out. At first they bartered with the prisoners in a\nheslthy way, the latter paying in Korean yen for eggs, tome -\ntoes, potatoes, and so forth food they had not tasted in\nthree and a half years. As time went on, however, the\nwomen would bring food to the prisoners without seeking\nanything in return. They said the prisoners were their\nfriends, and the Russians their enemies.\nMany prisoners, who spoke Japanese well, 2 were asked\nto visit Japanese and Korean homes, but more particularly\nJapanese. If Russiens saw them entering they (the Russians)\nwould demand entrance, too, and a woman. The position be-\ncame so electric one night while I was at the camp that the\nCamp Commandent (Captsin George Kinloch, of Glasgow, Scot-\nland) henceforth denied the men leave at night. His scion,\nin my opinion, was a wise one, because the prisoners to a\nman would stend up to defend any woman, regardless of her\nnationality. And this may have led to bloodshed.\nOn another occesion I saw Russiens deliberately knock\na Koreen or a Jap from his cart, remove the OX from the\nshafts and take it away, presumably to be killed for food.\nTerrorism seems to be the order of the dey with the\nRussiens. They go around in Jap commendeered trucks, armed\nwith tommy guns dash into a populous district and fire off\nCM-IN-23404 (28 Sept 45)\nSECREM\nBERVICE\"\n30\nCOPY No.\nTHE MAKING OF AN EXACT COPY OF THIS MESSAGE IS FORBIDDEN"
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