NEW GUINEA ATROCITY
BEHEADING OF ALLIED AIRMAN DENIED BY TOKIO RADIO (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Daty, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. In a broadcast to Latin America, the Tokio official radio denied that Japanese soldiers beheaded an Allied airman in New Guinea. The radio declared that the story was a fabrication “revealing an utter ignorance of the Japanese character and the desperate position of United States leaders, who are frantically trying to boost public morale.” Japanese local broadcasts made no mention of the beheading report.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1943, Page 4
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87NEW GUINEA ATROCITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1943, Page 4
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