SEVEN JAPANESE WAR LEADERS EXECUTED IN TOKIO

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14860, 23 December 1948, Page 3

S EVEN JAPANESE WAR LEADERS EXECUTED IN TOKIO

Waging Aggressive War And Atrocities In Far East

rrtlE PRIME MINISTER TOJO AMONG THOSE HANGED

London. December 22. • s vrar-time Prime Minister General Tojo and six Japanese 'leaders, have been hanged in Tokio for their ?ftad e:n convicted by an allied tribunal of

plotting and waging aggressive war cr of atrocities in the Far East.

In consequence of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court to intervene General MacArthur nostponed the execution. On Monday, the Supreme Court said it could net intervene. It had no jurisdiction as the sentences had been passed by an international tribunal, and net purely an American one. In addition to Tojo. the executed men were Gen- ' eral Matsui. responsible for the rape of Nanking in 1937; Doihara. secret service chief in Manchuria in 1930 and commander ci an army in Singapore: Eircta. the only civiian of

L n o'uiltv of conspiracy to wage aggressive war and hagainst peace and responsible for atrocities; General I commander of the army in Singapore in 1945; General [Chief of Staff in the Philippines ; and General Kimura. Lj er i n chief of the Japanese army in Burma in 1944. Pjhe executions took place in secrecy. 35 minutes after Lfet (Tokio time).