CRUELTY CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 118, 14 February 1944, Page 6

CRUELTY CHARGES

Japanese Treatment 03 U.S. Prisoners MANY BURIED ALIVE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received February 13, 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 12. Eighteen categorical charges of cruelty’ by the Japanese to American prisoners have evoked no reply the Japanese Government, says the State Department. The charges were contained in a Note transmitted on January 27. . . The Note specifying incidents or cruelty charges says that war prisoners from Corregidor were forced to match 1W miles barefoot from Bataan to San F ernando. Many were buried alive along the madside. and according to persistent ienorts. men who tried to rise fr °™ the graves were beaten down with shovels. Illustrating the extent ot Japanese looting, the Note recounts that Japanese soldiers at Corregidor were , seen with their arms covered from elbows to wrists with watches taken from Ametican P Bonerg. The Note revealed that ,?“’ 00 . 0 ninos and 2000 Americans died at Lamp O’Donnell, mostly in the first few months of detention. The United Press of America says that the complete deatn-roll in the Philippines is not known, but on the basis of the State Department and Army and Navy Department repoits, .well oyer Americans and Filipinos perished.