AMERICAN AIRMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 4

AMERICAN AIRMEN

“PUNISHED” BY JAPANESE

FOR ATTACK ON TOKiO

ACCORDING TO ENEMY RADIO

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright! (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 19. “American airmen captured on April 18 in the United States bombing raid on Tokio have been punished,” says the Tokio radio. “The punishment has been imposed in accordance with military law for their failure to observe the principles of humanity.” The radio added that Japan will execute or severely punish airmen taken prisoner who are found to have committed cruel or inhuman acts in attacks on Japanese or Japanese-held territory. “During the investigation, American airmen who had been captured said that it was proper for them deliberately to bomb Japanese hospitals, schools and civilian homes,” declared the Tokio radio.' “The Army, therefore, has severely dealt with these Americans.”

Official Washington reports of the raid on April 18 stated that all the raiding planes returned and that only military objectives were hit. Tokio claimed that nine of the raiders were shot down and that bombs landed on a school and hospital.