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Home of Japanese manager of Mine at Hsian, Manchuria

2009-677
Accession Number
2009-677
7.5x4 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348550386
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Dwellings
Mines and mineral resources
Reparations
HST Keywords
China - Manchuria; Kitano, S.
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Description
Outside view of home of S. Kitano in Hsian, Manchuria. This house and furnishings had been left intact by Soviets and Chinese Communists. It was the only Japanese house seen by members of the Pauley Mission which had not been looted. The house was owned and occupied by the Japanese manager who was still in charge of the coal mine. The reason given for his not being molested was that he provided Soviet officers and soldiers with comfortable billets (the homes of former Japanese officials) and a Japanese girl for every Soviet. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).
Date(s)
ca.
June 1946