JAPANESE OFFICERS ACQUITTED
WAR CRIMES AGAINST CHINESE (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) NANKING, July 18. A Chinese dispatch from Tsinan, the Capital of Shantung Province, stated to-day that the Chinese military tribunal acquitted 14 Japanese officers charged, with war crimes and later gave them a sumptuous banquet, during which the guests were lectured on the magnanimity of the Chinese. The Japanese officers included Colonel Yamaoka, commander of the Japanese gendarmerie at Tsinan during the war.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 237, 19 July 1947, Page 5
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