SKELETON'S IN SHIP'S COAL BUNKERS
MORE JAP HORRORS REVEALED Received Sunday, 7 p.m. BATAVIA, April 13. I'ollowing the discovery of more tnan a thousand skeletons in the coal hunter s of a Dutch freighter at Macassar, a Korean doctor told military oihcials that the Japanese, hefore they sur^ena ered. tlirew 400 prisoners of war and Indian civilians, including women, into a pit shaft at Loakoelde, 16 miles from Samarinda, and forced other prisoners to seal tne pit. When the mine was rejpened, the bodies were recovered for burial, bait many bones were included m Ihe coal loaded on to the Dutch lrc-ightsr. One hundred and twenty Japanese were identified as rpsponsible for the nassacre, by the doctor, who woiv.ed in the prison camp. Lieut.-General S. H. Vanspoor, Neth ulands East Indies conrmander, saxd 100 persons had been murdered at Sandoeng by extreinists since August.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1946, Page 5
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