Japs Planned To Conceal War Crimes
Received Monday, 8.20 p.m. TOKIO, May 17. Australian war crimes investigators revealed today tliat tkey had uncovered "extensive ' evidence proving a planned poliey by major Japanese Army and Navy Gommands, to conceal war crimes from tke Allied investigators. ' ' A statement covering investigations carried out over 30 months, was releaked by General MacAxthur's Headquarters. Lieut.-Colonei D. B. Goslett, of fciydney, said the conspiracy stretched from the South Pacific to Japan's home islands. The Japanese had taken steps as soon as the war ended, to destroy all Allied war prisoners' reeords. Tn ::n . ".n -.'a.;. * prisoners had been murdered, a JaxJ^nese naval conference decided to turn ovei- tlie ashes of cremated Japanese soldiers to the oecupation authorities and claim they were the remains of Atistralian and American prisoners who died from pneumonia. . The Australian war crimes authorities in Tokio now have sworn statements, including aiiidavits from former Japanese staff ollicers, detailing the establishment of "a committee for the concealment of war crimes," in New Guinea. Within hours of Japan's surrendel", the area Divisional Army and Navy Commands sent out an order ' to withhold and conceal war eriines information.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 May 1948, Page 3
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