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WAR DEPARTMENT
CLNSSIFIED MESSAGE CENTEN
INCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGE
DECLISSIFIED
E
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 1972 5(D) or
TOT
NETALA OSD NARS Date 2.11.75
letter, May 3.
OPERATIONAL PRIORITY
By
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From: Commander in Chief, Army Forces, Pacific, Advance,
Tokyo, Japan
Nr:
CA 52414
28 September 1945
5. Russians, by indiscriminate robbery, obtain all
the food they require. I actuelly accompanied a Russien
patrol one day when it hephezerdly moved around the city
of Kanko. Suddenly the truck turned towerds a form, the
Russians jumped out pell mell, and started shooting. They
brought beck five pigs that had received the combined maga
zines of several tommy guns.
The truck continued on its way. A fowl yard was
visited and several fowls collected. The owner was not
consulted. It was plein robbery.
I have seen Russiens go into a field of vegetables
and remove the lot, despite the farmers entreaties that he
and his family will starve unless they pay for them but the
Russiens don't pay for the food they collect. At least I
have never seen them pay, and Koreans have told me they
have received nothing for the animals and vegetables the
Russiens have teken.
One day I lunched with the Russians at their Kanko
headquarters. The place was indescribably filthy. The
food consisted of rice and cabbage soup and some sort of
flepjecks. They told me, through an interpreter, of course,
that the chickens and pork teken from the Koreans, had been
consumed the previous night at a big feast. They also told
me that most OF their food came from the Koreans: they
brought very little with them, only xice and a little meal
and a very few vegetables.
CM-IN-23404 (28 Sept 45)
as RECORDS
SERVICE'^
se
30
COPY No.
THE MAKING OF AN EXACT COPY OF THIS MESSAGE IS FORBIDDEN
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