JAPANESE BRUTALITY
PUNISHMENT OF ALLIED PRISONERS. (P.v Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) (F,y leieg p new york May 2 The Tokio official radio says that appropriate punishment has been imposed on 25 members of the American Army and Navy, including officers, and seven British sailors, who are alleged to have posed as civilians when interned in the Philippines. The broadcast asserted that they discarded their uniforms after the fall of the Philippines, but confessed their military identity when one of them, an American private, gave the names of all the 31 others because he feared the disclosure of a “love affair which caused a scandal among the internees.” The radio added that the seven Britons were survivors of the transport Tantalus, which was sunk in Manila Bay. . .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1943, Page 4
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