FILIPINOS KILLED AND EATEN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 7

FILIPINOS KILLED AND EATEN

31 JAPANESE CHARGED (Rec. 10 p.m.) MANILA, June. 8. A grisly story of man-eating Japanese soldiers who stalked Filipinos on cannibalistic forays came out of the jungles of northern Mindanao to-day. Thirty-one of the Japanese who surrendered only last February are being held in Delmonte, northern Mindanao, where they face more than 20 murder counts in which cannibalism is involved. Their confessions were styled by a representative of the legal section of the United States Army as “a chronicle of cumulative horror with few parallels in brutality.” A Filipino identified the defendants as those who in November, 1945, broke into his home while his father, mother, two sisters, younger brother, and sis-ter-in-law were eating their noon meal. The Japanese bayoneted the father, mother, a sister, and the brother, and cut flesh from their bodies. _ . . . “They cooked the flesh before us, and after eating all they wanted placed the human meat before us and ordered us to eat,” he said. “We refused. Then one of the Japanese held a rifle at my back. I then tasted the meat. The two girls were forced to do likewise. The Japanese laughed and made fun of us. The girls were carried off and were not seen again.”