RUSSIANS SENDING JAPS TO SIBERIA
Received Monday, 8.40 p.m. MUKDEN, March L j The Soviet commandant, MajorGeneral Stankevitch, told American correspondents that the Russians were sending Japanese war prisoners from the Mukden area to Siherian camps, instead of repatriating them. When the correspondents asked whether the Russians were using J apanese as slave labour, General Stankevitch replied that such- a question; should be asked. He added that he did . not know what was happening to the prisoners. A semi-official report from Chang- . chun says a Russian officer, belisved to : have recently arrived from Moscow, I has taken over control of the Man- 1 churia Electric Power Corporation, j which controls all the Manchurian elec- j tric power supply. ^
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1946, Page 5
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