LABUAN MASSACRE
20 DEATH SENTENCES Rec. 12.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 10. An Australian military' court at Labuan sentenced to death 20 Japanese and Formosan guards who were found guilty of having massacred 46 Allied prisoners of war. The sentence, which may have set a precedent for similar cases in the Borneo area, has to be confirmed by the GovernorGeneral of Australia.
The "Allied prisoners were killed at Miri (Sarawak) on June 10 this year. This is the end of the third trial in the Miri massacre series, in which seven of nine Japanese were found guilty. The 13 Formosan guards who had been previously convicted and the seven Japanese were sentenced together.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 139, 10 December 1945, Page 7
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