FOUL MURDERS
COMMITTED BY JAPANESE IN NEW BRITAIN PRISONERS BUTCHERED IN COLD BLOOD. EVIDENCE OF SOLDIERS WHO ESCAPED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 8. How the Japanese slaughtered their prisoners after the surrender of Gasmata, in New Britain, was told by three Australian soldiers who escaped,. They were the only survivors of a party of 10 officers and 50 men captured in a plantation. The prisoners were tied together with their hands behind their backs. Each officer was given a ! revolver and a bullet and told to [commit suicide. The men were taken into the jungle and led away one at a time by Japanese soldiers with fixed bayonets. Two of the survivors escaped into the bush before they were roped to the rest. The third shammed dead when he was shot and wounded by the Japanese.
Comment here, while expressing horror at such methods of warfare, emphasises the need continually to re-
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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