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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In Tokyo, eleven Japanese war leaders, including generals, accused of responsibility for the Rape of Nanking, Mukden incident, and bombing of USS Panay, are ordered arrested. US Headquarters reports 57 more minor war criminals in custody for prisoner brutalities. General MacArthur directs the eleven to Sugamo prison.
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TOKYO, Nov. 19-(AP)-Eleven Jap war leaders, including generals are accused of the responsibility for the rape of Nanking and Mukden, also the incident of the bombing of the U. S. Gunboat Panay, were ordered arrested. U. S. Headquarters said fifty-seven more Jap war criminals, mostly minor characters charged with brutalities against war prisoners are in custody. General MacArthur directed that eleven of them be delivered to Sugamo prison camp in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
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Nov. 19
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eleven leaders ordered arrested and to be delivered to sugamo prison; fifty-seven more war criminals in custody.
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Eleven Japanese war leaders, including generals, accused of responsibility for the rape of Nanking and Mukden, and the bombing of the U.S. Gunboat Panay, were ordered arrested. U.S. Headquarters reported fifty-seven more Japanese war criminals, mostly minor figures charged with brutalities against war prisoners, in custody. General MacArthur directed that the eleven be delivered to Sugamo prison camp in Tokyo.