VILE ATROCITIES
COMMITTED BY JAPANESE TORTURE AND EXECUTION. OF PRISONERS CAUGHT TRYING TO ESCAPE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) NEW DELHI, June 2. Japanese atrocities in a prison camp at Tengyueh, in China, are related by a Punjabi who escaped from the camp. He said prisoners caught attempting to escape had been publicly tortured and executed. The Punjabi escaped with two others after throttling a Japanese sentry, and reached an Allied camp in the Hackin Hills area of North-East Burma. One man who tried to escape was caught and then, before the prisoners in camp, he was used by the garrison for bayonet practice. The Punjabi said he saw three other men ordered to kneel while a Japanese swordsman lopped off their heads. One man. refusing to kneel, was cut to nieces where he stood.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 4
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