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THIRD-DEGREE METHODS

F( )REIGN COHRESPONDEN I tortpred “After the Pearl Harbour attack police went to outright third-degree methods to make me confess I was a S pv. The ringleader and chief torturer was Okacla. a pronounced sadist. who. like many Americaneducated Japanese, hated America with a hatred born of an inferiority complex. The police dashed my head against a wall, kicked me. tried to break my fingers over a fountain pen, and tried to strangle me. Okada shouted: ‘All foreign correspondents are spies.’ When their methods proved unavailing Okada stripped the last* mask from his Japanese soul and spat in my face, hissing; I am going to get even with somebody.’ During the torture, when the inquisitors threatened me-with death. I found myself saying: ‘I am not afraid to die.’ I found to my surprise that at that moment I meant it. O. Tolischns, American correspondent in Tokio.

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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 6

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THIRD-DEGREE METHODS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 6

THIRD-DEGREE METHODS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 6