JAPANESE CRIMINALS SLEEK AND ASSURED

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1946, Page 5

JAPANESE CRIMINALS SLEEK AND ASSURED

Received Tuoday, 7 p.ni. TOKIO, July 120. While bloody cvidenee mounts against tliciu, Japan's major war crimes di'i'ciidanls, who two monlhs ugo faced the liilenuitional Tribtniul sliaJiby aud scuwling, have beeome sleck and assuri*d, with clean, pressed civi'inn suits and unilorms and trinnucd beards and fiowiug mousluches, says the correspon (tent oi' the As.sociatcd I'res*. Tlicir srowl and stiibboni sileiice liavc given way to philosophical dctuchinent, even cheeiTuluess, as they (diat with their attorneys and join in Ihe laugh ter w iiicli i n I'requoiit ly lipples through the t'ourtrooni. it is inipossiljle to read their thoughts. The J'oiiner general, fuate Matsui, who is charged with Ihe ma.ior roKponsibil itv l'or ihe rape oi: Nanking, appears unperturlied as* horrible details are rolat ed The J'oriner Foreign Miriister, iShigenfitsu," wiio is acc-used oi' muny ■diploniatic manoeiivres prec.eding the atUiek on ('hina, stares at Jiis 1'ecL lilte a rnan coiitemplating a great gamblirig loss, while To.jo, who.se egg shaped, Itald head (iominates the dock, i'ollows ihe testimony closcly. Japanese guns and bayonets in Cliina wero Ihe advance agenls oi hypodermie needles and opinm pipes, said the history professor at Nanking rniversity. Or. M. S. Iiates, of Ohio, giving evidenee liei'ore the tribunal. Nanking 's drtig trailic was iormerly negligible, but le.ss tlian a year ai'ter the, Japanese invasion fiOOt) ounees of opinni wero selling daily and the d.rug nierchants wero netting the equivalcnt of 3,000,000 dollars a nnmth from the saies of horoin. The Japanese depeiuled on revenue from the sale of drugs to finance the pnppet Governments.