KILLINGS BY JAPANESE
Received '1 hursdav, 11.55 p.tn. TOKIO, Dee. 11. Tlte Philippines' prosecutor, Pedro Lopez, iit the war crimes' tribunal, asked tui Americ.an witness, the fornier •Sergeant Donald Ingle, how iminv lcillings by the .Tapanese he had witnesseu on the 9-day 120 kilonietre Bataan death mareh. Ingle replied: " I don 't know. It became so conimonplace after the iirst. few hundred that 1 did not try to keep track. The detul were rolled to the roadside or lei't lying where killed. " Mr. Lopez said 1200 Ainerican soldiers and 1(5,000 Pilipino troops were brutally killed or died of tortures. Mr. Lopez put in as eviilence a Jap--aneso Armv order instructing that Filipinos be assetnbled together before boing killed to save ammunition.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1946, Page 5
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