CHEATED THE ROPE
JAP. OFFICER'S SUICIDE SYDNEY, April 15. Three times sentenced to hang for war crimes, a Japanese officer, Firstlieutenant Hisaneo Mitsuba, cheated the rope by committing suicide in the prisoner-of-war, compound at Rabaul. One end of the strap from a water bottle was tied, around his neck and the other end attached to a beam. In addition to the death sentence, ho had been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment The sentences were for the murder of eight Indian prisoners of war. Mitsuba was to have faced trial to-day on charges of murdering two other Indians.
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Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 5
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97CHEATED THE ROPE Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 5
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