ATROCITIES ON GUAM
NATIVES OUTRAGED BY ?APS Rec. 2.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 38. A nurse who remained on Guam after the Japanese occupation, said that the residents shortly before the Americans' arrival found 13 beheaded and two badly mutilated native children partially buried in a common grave, reports the Associated Press Guam correspondent. The two injured girls, both aged 16, told the nurse that the Japanese accused them of being spies because they were not living, in the, compound, struck them repeatedly with their swords and threw them-into the grave, where they were found a week later.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 305, 26 December 1944, Page 6
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