MANILA HORROR
3000 Filipinos Rounded Up And
Many Bayoneted
VEILED TRAITOR HELPS JAPS
Rec. 2 p.m. NEW. YORK, Feb. 14. A Filipino who escaped from a Japanese concentration camp in Manila told the United Press correspondent that the Japanese ordered Filipinos on Monday of last week to report to the Cathedral or St. Atigustin Church, where about 3000 men, women and children were assembled. The Japanese marched the men to Fort Santiago, where a veiled traitor pointed out alleged guerillas, 100 of whom were bayoneted and the remainder locked in a building to which the Japanese set fire. Those who attempted to escape were shot down, but 20 _got away seriously burned. The Japanese also bayoneted four Chinese women, five boys and a baby girl. Many mutilated bodies were found. The Filipinos said the Japanese threatened that none of them would be left alive when the Americans reached Manila. It was thought that the Japanese, maddened by the speed of the Americans' drive on Manila, slaughtered helpless civilians for spite.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1945, Page 5
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