WAR PRIZES
TAKEN IN MANILLA BATTLE JAPANESE CLAIMS. GOVERNOR OF GUAM INTERNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) TOKIO, January 15. An official radio from the Imperial headquarters today claimed that the war prizes taken as the result of the battle of Manila up to January 12, include 13,000 rifles, four artillery pieces, fifty machine-guns, 675,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 motor-cars, 70 railway carriages 91 ships and a large quantity of gasoline, food, clothing and other supplies. Part of the Japanese forces occupying Olongapo cdptured Grande .Island on January 12.
The radio also said that the Intelligence Bureau had announced that 442 persons, including 301 marines and naval men, five nurses and civilians captured at Guam, including Governor McMillin, arrived at Shikoku and were later interned in barracks at Zentsizi.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1942, Page 4
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