WILL NOT ESCAPE JUSTICE
CANBERRA, September 24. There need be no fear that the Japanese war criminals would escape justice because of lack of machinery for their detection and arrest, stated the Minister of the Army, Mr. Forde. "General Blarney assures me," he said, "that all the commanding officers in the islands are carrying out his instructions to apprehend all Japanese responsible for atrocities."
Mr. Forde revealed that the Australian Army is holding more than 250,000 Japanese in the South-west Pacific. "It is wrong to assume that the Australan Army in the islands is handling the Japanese with kid gloves," he said. "It can be taken for granted that the men whose business has been to kill them and who since the end of the war have seen the plight of their comrades who fell into Japanese hands are not going to handle them with kid .gloves now."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 74, 25 September 1945, Page 7
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