DEATHS FROM FAMINE IN JAPAN
Press Assn.-
By Telegraph
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Reccived AFondav. 11.30 p.m. TOKIO, June 3. Tntelligence reports indicate an increasing' miinber of deaths in tlie Tokio area from nialinitritiou and starvation. In April 207 bodies were found in tlie streets. Japanese poliee- rejiort 1291 ' malnutrition deaths since November. General AiacAi'tliur has ordered the freezing of 500,000,000 yon in yiersonai j assets of ten more of Japan 's leading | 'inaucial families. all of wliom holo J some interest in the four Zaibatsu eon •enis wliose assets are aireadv frozea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1946, Page 5
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