SENTENCED TO DEATH BUT HANGED HIMSELF
. ■ Eeceived Alondav,- 30,20 p.m. SYDNEY, April 15, Three tirnes sentenced to ltang fur war erimes, a .Tapanese officer, First Lieutenaiit Hisaneo Mitsuba, cheatOd tlie rope by comniitting suicide iii the prisoner of war eompouiid. at llabaul. One end of a strap from a water bottbwks tied arouffil Itis neck and ihe other end was attached to a beatn. In addition to the death sentence, he had been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, The seiitences were for the mttrder (J f elght Indian prisoners of war. jlitsuba was to haVe faced'trial today on charges of mutdcrlfig two other fndians.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5
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