HAND-GRENADE SUICIDES
SINGAPORE, Scot. 11| A new Singapore edition of the South-east Asia Command's daily newspaper for Empire troops has reported from "friendly Japanese sources" that 300 Japanese officers committed suicide with hand-grenades after a saki party to mourn Japan's surrender. General Itagaki is reported to have^suppressed the wave of suicides after three days. It is learned that two Japanese soldiers, in committing suicide with hand-gi-enades near oil-storage tanks at Port Dickson, began fires which British naval units sighted last week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 7
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81HAND-GRENADE SUICIDES Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 7
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