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portant war crimes suspects who
was seized today, retired from active
naval service in 1884. He served as
chief of staff of Japan's I'd, 1st and
Combined Fleets, later commanding
the naval training squadron and be-
coming president of the Uraga
dockyards.
Besides Terashima in the Yoko-
hama jail are such other war-crime
suspects as 1t Gen. Masaharu
Homma, conqueror of Bataan: 1t.
Gen. Shigenori Kuroda, Gen. HON.
mas successor as Philippines COM
mander, and former Navy Minister
Shigetaro Shimada.
Nobuske Kishi, commerce and in
dustry minister in the Pearl Harbor
cabinet, also was taken into custody
today. He came to Tokyo from
Yamaguichi prefecture, where he
had been i'll.
Warlord TOTO himself, who tried
suicide with a pistol last week. "is
getting along fine" in the United
States 98th Evacuation Hospital in
Yokohama and is expected to be
completely recovered in a month,
1t. Col. James M. Peery said.
Togo Says He Stood for Peace.
Ill at his home from a heart at
tack. Shigenori Togo also on the
Allied wanted" list, and Foreign
Minister in two japanese war cab
inets, told the Associated Press in
written statement that he'd stood
firmly for peace in the August s
cabinet fight and finally won. He
had opposed any conditions beyond
retention of the Emperor, in accept
ing Allied terms, he said.
The list of those in custody in
cluded one reported leader of the
Infamous Black Dragon Society
Col. Kingoro Hashimoto. Another,
Yosihisa KuZuu, who claimed he
had been president of the terrorist
society since 1898, repeatedly had
been found and was expected to be
picked up soon. Mutual Broadcast
ing System Correspondent Jack
Mahon said he had talked with
Kuzuu and was convinced the Black
Dragon still was functioning in
secret.
The Nippon Times yesterday
printed detailed accounts of the
japanese mistreatment of American
prisoners, and said today that the
Japanese who have just been in
formed of the mistreatment must
shiver with shame. 1t urged stern
punishment. The newspaper also
predicted that japanese women
would soon participate in politics
and that if they were to be allowed
to take government posts they would
inject purity, loftiness and beauty
into politics which is now lacking.
Assets Ordered Impounded.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters,
controlling economic as well as po-
litical affairs, ordered the japanese
to impound the assets Of former
enemy nations and to preserve in
good condition those of the United
States.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
were transferred today from the
Customs Office at Yokohama to the
Daiichi Sogo (First Mutual Life In
suarnce) Building in the Hibiya
District of Tokyo. Trucks and jeeps
shuttled all day long between, the
cities, transferring personnel and
tons of records and equipment.
The new location, fronting the
imperial palace grounds, will be
headquarters for the duration of
the occupation.
Six hundred officers and 400 en-
listed men formed the advance
echelon of the headquarters in the
20-mile move.
Gen. Macarthur and his aides,
with other high headquarters OFF,
cials, are quartered in the United
States Embassy building.
Other headquarters personnel will
be located in the NYK steamship
co.. Building, the Imperial and
Daiichi Hotels, the Navy Club and
the Finance Building.
The move was preceded by a
reconnaissance party headed by
Capt. F. F. McGuiness of Butte.
Mont. The actual transfer was
supervised by Col. v. D. Whatley of
Raleigh. N. c., headquarters COM
mandant.
The buildings vacated in Yoko-
hama will be taken over by the 9th
Army,