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DIEHARD JAPANESE
ON LONELY ISLET
SURRENDER AT EAST.
TOKIO. June 26 (A.AJ.-Reu
ter's).-A group of Japanese soldiers
on Anatahan Island, who for nearly
six years had refused to believe
that the war had ended, flew a sur-
render flag to-day. The Hag Waa
sighted on the island 61 miles north
of Saipan by navy . fliers who
dropped leaflets telling *hem that
a Japanese Navy ship would reach
Anatahan on June 30 to take them
off.
The navy's civil administration
officer on Saipan said that he be-
lieved the Japanese had read the
letters from their wives and faml
Ilies which the navy had left at
Anatahan on June 9 when a Japan- I
ese petty officer on the Island sur-
rendered, j
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