DEATH SENTENCES
JAPANESE ACCUSED OF CANNIBALISM (Rec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 16. . Three Japanese soldiers and seven Formosan civilians who were attached to a Japanese army unit were sentenced to be hanged by two war crimes courts at Rabaul to-day. Captain Taikashi Takashaki was found guilty oi cannibalism and was sentenced to be hanged. Three others were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on a similar charge. It was.claimed that the Japanese had given sidk Indians injections, and after they died cooked parts of their bodies for consumption.
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Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 7
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