ENFORCED HOMAGE
JAPANESE BRUTALITY
Rec. 1 p.m. SYDNEY, June 15. Missionaries, men and women, captured by the Japanese in New Guinea, were forced to bow to the rising sun every morning, according to a group comprising eight Catholic nuns, three brothers, and a Lutheran lay preacher now in hospital at an Australian base. They were rescued after the American landing at Hollandia. Sister Mathilda, who had been in New Guinea for thirteen years, .said that Japanese soldiers hit her with sticks because they were dissatisfied with.the way she saluted ■ them. The missionaries were forced to bow to any Japanese soldier before addressing him. Sister Nicola, a missionary in New) Guinea since 1913; said that she and other nuns were forced to work-on | roads with picks and shovels while guards stood over them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1944, Page 6
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132ENFORCED HOMAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1944, Page 6
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