Men Tortured To Death

Chronicle (Levin), 17 September 1946, Page 5

Men Tortured To Death

Press Assn.-

EVIDENCE AT TRIAL

By Telegraph

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Reeeived Monday, 7.55 p.m. TOKXO, Sept. 15. An offieial Jap.aaps.O report introduce^. in evidpnee at 'the W ar Crini,es Trial, blamed the time Umit placed on the construction pf the S^am-Burma railway for the deaths o.f 10,000 Allied war priso.ners wrho were pushed to thp utmost to keep the work up to sphedule. If anyo.np was to bp called to account for the d.readful dcatb rate, the responsibility o.ught to. be plaeed pn the then Ohief pf the General Stafif, Gpneral Sugiyama, whp pjdprpd thp construction, the War Minister Tojo who sanctioped the employmeut of prispners, and General Terauehi who was ip charge of the cpnstruction. Aa fonner British prisoner, Colo.nef Cyril Wild, tpld'the epurt: "We continually protested that the Japanese had no right to hald us in the Siam jungle where they could not f eed and ■ supply us. ' ' Colonel Wild produeed a document revealing that more than 150,000 Chinese troops and eivilians wrnre massacred at Singapore. They were jmnished or tortured to death by the Japanese secret police. Spy suspects were specially inistreated. Oue European was tortured for 55 hours. Another was liit 144 times. The Japanese poured water into oue suspects ; mouth and nostrils and theu jumped on his swollen stomach.