SAMURAI OFFICER MURDERERS
Rec x p m NI^V YORK, September 12. 'Japanese officer candidates were specially instructed how to behead prisoners without nicking- their Samurai swords, accordingto a Japanese sergeant who admitted that, he was an instructor in "cutting- of necks." , '
The sergeant told an American. Japanese soldier who lias just returned to New York that the Japanese mostly beheaded Chinese, but occasionally Allied airmen "just to .see how it felt to cut an Allied neck." •
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 7
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