PUNISHED BY JAPS
32 ALLIED PRISONERS
(Rec. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 2. i Tokio official radio said that appropriate punishment had been imposed ion 25 members of the American army and navy, including officers, and seven British sailors who are alleged to have posed as civilians when interned. in the Philippines. The broadcast asserted that they discarded their uniforms after the fall of the ! Philippines, but confessed their mili- | tary identity when one of them, an American private, gave the names of all the 31 others because he feared the disclosure of a "love affair which caused a scandal among the internees." The radio added that the seven Britons were survivors of the transport Tantalus, which was sunk in Manila Bay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 103, 3 May 1943, Page 5
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122PUNISHED BY JAPS Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 103, 3 May 1943, Page 5
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