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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\n744\nDepr. of Seate lesper, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy NLT- HC , NARS Date 6.2675\n-10-\nthe agreements made in January and February have not been\nimplemented, and the various Chinese groupe have not since\nthat time been able to achieve the degree of agreement\nreached at the Political Consultative Conference.\nThere nas been encouraging progress in other fields,\nparticularly the elimination of Japanese from China. The\nChinese Government was responsible under an Allisd agree-\nment for the disarmant of all Japenese military person-\nnel and for the repatriation of all Japanese civiliane and\nmilitary personnel from China, Formosa and French Indo-\nChina north of the sixteenth degree of latitude. Our Gov-\nernment agreed to assist the Chinese in this task. The\nacope of the Job was tremendous. There were about\n3,000,000 Japanese, nearly one-half of them Army or Navy\ntobe causanted.\npersonnel in Water and reil trensportation had\nbeen destroyed or was immcbilized. Port facilities were\nbadly danaged and overcrowded with relief and other sup-\nplies. The Japanese had to be disarmed, concentrated and\nthen transported to the nearest available port. In some\ninstances this involved long distances. At the ports\nthey had to be individually searched and put through a\nheelth inspection. All had to be inceulated. Segrega-\ntion camps had to be established at the ports to cope\nwith the insidence of epidemic dieeases such as Asiatie\ncholere. Finally, 3,000,000 persona had to be moved by\nship to Japan.\nAmerican\nRecpaos\n6\nSERVICE'<"
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