AMERICANS AMOK IN JAPANESE TOWN
Five Civilians Killed And 20 Injured TOKIO, Feb. 16. Five Japanese were killed and about 20 injured when a group of American soldiers ran amok and "shot np the town" of Hachioji, west of Tokio. According to jn announcement by United States Fifth Air Force, five soldiers attached to Tachikawa. Army Air Base were arrested after a tenday search and were charged with murder. The Hachioji police said American soldiers in a jeep pulled up on the Tachikawa-Hachioji mad on the night of January 31. They halted a.t nasser-by and struck him with a three-foot piece of firewood. The soldiers then went to Hachioji, entered restaurants, broke glass and wrecked furniture.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19470217.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 17 February 1947, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116AMERICANS AMOK IN JAPANESE TOWN Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 17 February 1947, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in