NO MORE TORTURE
Japanese Modernising Police Methods * (Received 17, 8.45 a,m.) • ' TOKIO, Feb. 16. There was a sensation in the House of Peers when Prince Kishichi Kokubo, a septuagenarian, who has twice been imprisoned for political activity, direoted attention to police torture of prisoners and suspeets, ineludingi the forcing of water through the nostrils, suspension by the feet, and branding on the forearm witb hot irons. The Hotne Minister replied that police and Government officials concerned had already beeil punisbed and the Government intended to eliminate torture.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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