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ONLY THE WILL TO LIVE KEPTMEN AUVE IN JAP PRISONStSAY SIX FLORIDA-ALABAMA MEN1Finney, General Hospital’s first patients from prisoner of war camps in, t/*e Jap home islands have arrived with stories of life inside Japan during: the waryears.The liberated prisoners evacuated from the Japanese homeland are:Daniel Hall, Chip ley, Fla. Keller Denmark, Jr., Lutz,Cpl,SgtFla.Cpl.River,Sgt.can prisoners to arrive in Japan. This trio ‘'worked and waited”in Japan from late 1942 until the liberation.- They saw B-29 raids grow froir rare events to “everyday occur* ances, and watched the Jap civilian’s confidence drop from sure victory to ‘‘a hundred-year war”, and finally “it can”t last mucl' longer.” Toward the end, theJap civilian “wouldn't talk about Woodrow Stanland, Crystal ] the war”, Denmark said Fia, j Incidentally,all of the sixRobert Simmons, Birmingham, Ala.Sgt. Albert Ennis, Mobile, Ala.learned enough Japanese to read a little, and to talk quite a bit. In fact., each of the men admit-r i tfSgt, Glenn D .Frazier, Ft. De- ted that he frequently talked with posit, Ala. , Jap workers who were assignedAll are gaining weight rapidly, to work projects with them. Mostfouappear to be. in good physical condition, and—in the words of their war dofflcer, Lt. Erwin Rice, of New Orleans are “getting along splendidly.”With the exception of Hall and j Ennis, all of the ex-prisoners were ** ‘ taken at the time of Bataan's fall. Hall and Ennis, however, were among the who held out on rock”, until the sistance in the Philippines.Ennu5, Denmark and Frazierwere amongr the earliest .Ameri-eahtli*handful of men\ Corregidor, “the total end of redefense of thewo:trhmilbegthean;.'he•pcv/athedvcoiinthlt;beiit,-iri-id►0jrPl-REVOHffiGNBREAKS OUTiIof these working Japs talked freely, unless he was being watched by a supervisor.Opinion among the six liberated soldiers was varied as to the severity of treatment in the Philippines compared-with that in the Jap home land. Some said it wiu. tougher in Japan than the Philippines, but the majority agreed that the treatment progressively improved with changing tide of the war. It was at its worst after the fall of Bataan in the “death march” day.?, most agreed.“The first winter in Japan was very bad”, Frazier said • “The Japs had enough that they could have kept us WSfmr'Tn^ thoge days, and they could have fed us better, but they didn’t. They were at their high tide, and the worm hadn't turned yet, We had no stoves in our barracks, and not en-mianse:dein1ar2:Aigasafutowlt;561-ojer-10ida-idu-11-ryaeftu,n-n-nslelioinasinnss,zele-e-» Washington, Oct. 19 i/Pt — United States embassy officer at Caracas was fired on last night in the course of spreading revolution in Venezuela.The conflict is between rebel military and government forces.The incident involving the embassy official was disclosed by the state department today in making public dispatches from Ambassador Frank P. Corrigan on the revolt.The upheaval, according to these official reports, began at 4 p. m., yesterday at San Carlos barracks near Caracas and by 9 p. m„ last night the rebels had control of the president’s residence at Miraflores and the nearby military academy.They had set up headquarters in the academy.Meanwhile, government forces under leadership of President General Isiah Medina Y. Angarita, who has taken personal command,. ough clothes on our backs. And wo didn’t have nearly enough food.I Later ..nnlt;v-it was_eaaier_tn junder-stand not being properly fed, because as her lines of communication were cut by MacArthur, the Jap home islands’ food supply suffered. But in those early days, they could have, treated us right and they just wouldn’t do it. Later on, we couldn’t expect much in the way of food, but they at least improved in other respects, for we got stoves in our barrack?* the next two winters, and with the coal which was issued us plus that which we stole, we were able to keep warm all right.”All of the prisoners experience? followed this line. After the fall of the Philippines, they were assembled, then assigned to camps. Most of the men were at Cabana-tuan, then old Billibid prison before finally being shipped to Japan proper for work in the home islands. In Japan, they were kept at work in the sugar mills, on the farms, on dry docks, etc. Most o£ the men worked at about three different locations’ in Japan dur-HattliNwthq*piHAiLteHS:StleErtFIiV i it**♦♦(Continued on page 7—column
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Fri, Oct 19, 1945
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