JAPANESE ATROCITIES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 16, 14 October 1943, Page 6

JAPANESE ATROCITIES

Bishop’s Terrible Ordeal NEW YORK, October 12. Appalling atrocities and indignities which he experienced and witnessed during his imprisonment in Hong Kong were refuted bv Bishop Ogara, Vicar Apostolic of Hunan, China. Bishop Ogara. who was arrested by the Japanese on Christmas Eve, 1941, has now returned to New York. , He told the ‘‘Herald-Tribune’ : On Christmas morning, 1941, I and 32 other priests were stripped by the Japanese at the bayonet point and had our hands bound behind our backs. Then we were marched to the firing line, where we saw six British officers and men bayoneted to death. , , , “We thought our turn had come, but at the last moment the executioners received a message by radio, whereupon we were marched oil to a garage, where we were held for four days without clothes or food, and then taken to a dark, filthy, vermin-ridden Chinese hotel, in which men, women, and children were thrown indiscriminately and given revolting f°od. , , “We remained there for three weeks, and then were taken to what the Japanese call a ‘recreation camp.’ They have a nice name for everything.” Bishop Ogara believes he was finally released by the intercession of the Vatican. His journey home took four months, because he was forced to interrupt the trip for four surgical operations, “the direct result of my internment.”