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MONDAY /Disloyal Japs Guarded As Camp Probe Opens,Tuie Lake Investigators Seek Cause of Troubles At Big Centerl':VwMrufs'rLAKE, Calif.. Nov. 7—Heavily armed troops.me of them veterans of Pacific battle fronts, kept watch-fieveson 16,000 Japanese internees at the Tule Lake seg-lUtion center today, while the first of several investigations got under way to determine the cause and possible „ire of repeated uprisings thereThe- army retained full ccn-;i hut administrative work atlee has said that the Buoku-Km once had branches in about 50 Lr°L wai carried on west coast cities and had aead-ivar relocation authority i quarters in Los Angeles.)^.12 Thursday night called in! Japanese Surroundedfh^roOP^ when a Caucasian: Concentration of Buoku-KaiW'J naZ beaten and around 500 members here, occasioned when f^fimadcd the admin is-: Tule Lake was made the center J«eaof the project. Twen-; for Japanese and .lapansse-Amer-Taeanesc armed with clubs j leans considered disloyal to busLknives were taken into cus-1 country. apparently wa* a major handsome of them were in*; factor in the latest, scries 01 in-,^IV and some ; cidents. which culminated withtody and ju:c .in investigator lor the Con-mpssional Dies Committee met fijjy ,-tt the center wjlli Lt.Col. Zne Austin, commander of the troops, and representatives or the it* p A.-•• Senators Also There Tc the meantime, members of ■Unseat* Senate Committee on •aMnese resettlement arrived for Sines to start tomorrow, and Sen. Claire Engle. Democratic congressman represent ng the district, was en route by plane from Washington.A8 the-investigators began.the re was increasing evidence fyCy would center to some extent, around activities of theBuoku-Kai, the so-called Japanese military society described in official.records as an arm ot ■^Japanese military intelligence. \\ report of the Dies commit*the army taking full control with tanks, machlneguns and armored cars Thursday night.The soldiers in the main apparently did not move in the internees' barracks center itself, but kept that area surrounded. Administrative offices are occupied by troops, and soldiers are living in barracks and in tents in the administration area.High area ot'ficials of the American Legion also are gathering at Tule Lake, apparently to attend the Investigations.Harvesting of nearby crops by loyal Japanese-Americans is continuing. Several hundred of these , loyal people were brought to the ; center from other relocation camps about, two weeks ago, when the disloyal Japanese at Tule Lake refused to do the, work.
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Mon, Nov 08, 1943
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