WAR CRIMES !
PUNISHMENT OF JAPS
LISTS BEING PREPARED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, September 8.
A special committee of the United Nations War Crimes Commission has submitted to the member Governments a set of comprehensive recommendations for the punishment of Japanese war criminals. The main Commission and the Far Eastern and Pacific Subcommission has examined the case of Japanese war crimes, and lists are bein? prepared. It is certain that with the liberation of the territories occupied by the Japanese a vast amount of. new evidence will be forthcoming. According to sources close to the Japanese Government. intellectuals who opposed the war lords' schemes are preparing their own list of war criminals, says a message from New York. An Associated Press correspondent was told that the Allies should soon announce their list, so that the Japanese people could perhaps add names. *
Meanwhile, the sources suggested the following:—General Tojo. Marquis Koichi Kido. a member of the Imperial household and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. Prince Konoye, who was Premier when the Japanese invaded China in 1937, and who condoned that aggression and thereby promoted the imperialistic dream. Sotaro Ishiwatari. the former Minister of Finance, who. with Marquis Kido, prevented truthful reports from reaching the throne. Shigemitsu. who was the mouthpiece for the militarists and worked behind the scenes to prevent a peaceful solution of the China war, thereby contributing to Japan's clash with Britain and America; Lieut.General Yoshijiro Umezu. an influential member of the Kwantung Army clique; and also various bureaucrats, militarists, industrialists, gendarmerie leaders, and leaders of the terrorist patriotic societies which solidified the militarists' domination.
The sources added that Prince Hi-gashi-Kuni appointed Prince Konoye and Shigemitsu to the present Cabinet only because he lacked time to find more suitable men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 5
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