JAPANESE HORROR
MASSACRE OF PRIESTS
NEW YORK, February 25. A broadcaster over the Blue Network says that before the capture of Intramuros the Japanese ordered 130 priests into a church air raid shelter and then tossed hand grenades through a single opening, killing and wounding many of them.
The Japanese then ordered those priests who were still standing to open their mouths, and stuck pistols in their mouths and shot them, after which they blocked the shelter, leaving the wounded to die.
This tragedy was told by the sole survivor, Father Palomino, who though wounded, clawed his way out.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 5
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