JAP HEADS FOR TRIAL

Chronicle (Levin), 30 April 1946, Page 5

JAP HEADS FOR TRIAL

AGGRESSION PLANNED MANY YEARS AGO Iiccci\ cd .Mondav, n.50 p.m. TOKlt), April 28. United Xutiuns have nirmally eharged T'ljo and 27 "tlier.s with eounts in the ■wir eriincs iini'n 1 ments. Those against .h.pnn's t » j i i.iilitarists and eiviiian -u|>|ii)rti'rs ineluded sjxa-ilie eharges of -i ari ing ihe war against all 11 aerusing nutions. The dri t'lnlants are alsn eharged with mtemptiiig a world eonspiraey and ih s]ie-iiir nets against prisoners and iiileniee-; -mt lary . to ihe inlernatioiiaiiy aeerjited eodes. S]ii'.-ili.-nlly ineludcd was a eharge of I'ianning uar against Kussia and the ■ Miinnissi.in of a;*ts of aggression a-ainst the Soviet dnring the yeafS j'le.'eding ihe l'aeilie war. The indietr.' i-nt added that Jajian would have atT ta*ked 10'ssia if the Soviet forees had • • • t juuved so strong in ihe war against iej lunny. The list of defendants eharged lias -learly indieated that the trial will m.oIvo agaifs-ion ante-dating even ihe Manehurian itieident of 1901. The indiet iju'iit.s also allege the use oi' (Milson gas in ('hina, and the proi.auiiui of ojiium saies to weaken the ■ I! i)l the Vii'mese people to resist :• a gi'i'ssioii. Tiie list of defendants ineluded M.arcpiis ivid-;, i'ornier Eord Keeper of •;ie Privv Seal and once the most infuential eiviiian in Japan, Matsuoka, '•cnerals Doihara, Oshiniit and Shirai oi. the former Amliassador to Italy, Tojn, Iliranuma, Hirota, Koiso, Shigen.iisu and I'lne/.u. Topranking navy • ::reers' names ineluded Xagano, Shige•;iro and Shimada, former Xavy Minisotliers eharged ineluded the former Field Marshal Shunroku Ilata, the F-rmer ("hief of Staff of the Kwantung Armv Itagaki, the former Finance Min-:-t«-r Okinori Kaya, and the former Pireetnr of the Xavy Bureau, Taka--nmi oka.