JAPANESE CRUELTIES TOLD TO TRIBUNAL
Received Thursday, 7.10 p.m. LONDON, March 21. | Mr. R. H. Scott, who was director c-f 1 the Far Eastern branch of the Ministry i of Inf ormation at the outbreak of tue | Pacific War, toid the War Crimes Tri1 bunal that he was strung up by two j hngers, beaten, kicked and cracked on tne head by the Japanese, says Reu ter's Singapore correspondent. Mr. Scott, who is now counsellor to Lord Killearn, said he was not allowed to re } lax for seven days and six nights. Sworn testimonies were taken fronj Bishop Wilson, of Singapore, and- Dr Cicely Williams, a former lecturer at the Singapore Coliege of Medicine, who j stated that she was kept in the same cell a£ a Japanese soldier, a Chineso soidier and Chmese labourers. The principal accused is Lieut.-Colm-el Sumida Harizo, cominander of the Japanese Gestapo in Singapore.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1946, Page 5
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