JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS
EXECUTIONS FOR ATROCITIES
OKIO, Feb. 12. Eight Japanese war criminals were hanged to-day for atrocities resulting in the deaths of numerous American war prisoners. Among them were Major-General Yoshitaka Kawane and Colonel Kuratnro Hirano, who were convicted of association with .the Bataan death inarch.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 106, 14 February 1949, Page 3
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