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Wainwright And Percival
To Attend Surrender
MANILA, Wednesday.— General
Wainwright, hero of the US defence
of Corregidor and Bataan, and Gen-
eral Percival, who surrendered the
British forces at Singapore, have ar-
rived at Chungking after having been
released from their prison camp in
Manchuria.
They have both accepted the invita-
tion of General MacArthur to attend the
surrender ceremony in Tokio on Sunday.
The generals told correspondents that
after D-Day in Europe, their camp was
cut off from all knowledge of what was
going on in the outside world. General
Wainwright complained that conditions
in the prison camps were bad. Only Red
Cross parcels saved them.
It was only in the last few days that
they learned of the German capitulation,
the Japanese decision to surrender, the
death of President Roosevelt and the
British general elections.
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