THOUSANDS DIED ON BATAAN DEATH MARCH
TOKIO, Dec. 12. The Philippines Prosecutor, Pedro Lopez, at the War Crimes Tribunal asked an American witness, a former Sergeant, Donald Ingle, how many killifigs by the Japanese he actually witnessed on the nine-day Bataan death march. Sergeant Jngle replied: "I do not knoW. It became so commonplace' after the first few hundred that I did not try to keep track. The dead were rolled to the roadside or left lying where they had heen killed.55 ^ Pedro Lopez said that 1260 Aineyican soldiers ahd 16,000 Filipino troops were brutally killed or died of tortures. He put in as evidence a Japanese Army Order instructing that Filipinos be assembled , together before being seriously killed to saVe aftimunitibn. killed to save ammunition.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 13 December 1946, Page 5
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