GRIM DOCUMENT
JUDGE'S REPORT ON
JAPANESE
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
CANBERRA, September 10. Details of atrocities so revolting as to be almost unbelievable are Contained in the report by Mr. Justice Webb, which was submitted to the Commonwealth Government and was released today.
The report was compiled from evidence supplied by actual witnesses of these atrocities, including many responsible officers, both military and civil, and five Australian soldiers who were left for dead but recovered and escaped. This grim document has been submitted to the War Crimes Commission in London:•
The report tells of soldiers being brutally murdered and mutilated for the entertainment of grinning' Japanese, of missionaries slaughtered, nuns raped and' bayoneted, and of surgical operations on live soldiers for the entertainment of their captors. Sir William Webb says that at the time these atrocities were committed the Japanese forces were still advancing towards Australia. \ "The Japanese armies were still winning victories
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 62, 11 September 1945, Page 7
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152GRIM DOCUMENT Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 62, 11 September 1945, Page 7
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