GRUESOME STORY
JAPANESE CRUELTY
CHINESE BUTCHERED AT SINGAPORE
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 2. A gruesome account of Japanese cruelty is contained in a document which has reached British headquarters at New Delhi, says a news agency message. For reasons of security, the source cannot be disclosed. After the fall of Singapore, it is stated, Chinese were rounded up and forced to dig their own graves. They were then made to stand in lines and a Japanese officer beheaded the first Chinese in the front line. Then a subaltern beheaded the others, and those in the second line were forced to bury their dead.
The second line was ihon forced to dig its own graves. This butchery of innocent men went on for ten days without interruption.
Nine thousand girls were seized for immoral purposes, officers were stripped, and one of the Viceroy's commissioned officers was shot dead because he asked for water.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 5
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