JAP WAR CRIMINALS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 8

JAP WAR CRIMINALS

INDICTMENT BEING PREPARED

(By Telegraph—Press' Association—Copyright.) Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, September 6. "All Japanese who committed atrocities against Allied prisoners of war and internees will be tried," says Singapore radio. "An indictment is now being prepared. The civilised world will be aghast when the complete document is published. There are stories of Chinese who. were forced to drink petrol, and of Japanese throwing lighted matches into their mouths, of mass slaughter of Chinese troops, of civilians being mown down by machine-guns, and of torture of our own people." Dr. C. J. Pedler, former consultant to the Sultan of Johore, believes that more than 150,000 Asiatic civilians in Singapore were executed or tortured to death by Japanese secret police. The Exchange Telegraph agency correspondent at Singapore says that the Japanese treated civil servants better than prisoners of war. The mentality of the Japanese was such that they thought war prisoners had no right to live. The former Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, has arrived in London by air. He is compiling a full report on his internment, but at present is not commenting publicly on the treatment he received from the Japanese. '