JAPANESE BRUTALITY
P RIS ONE R S TOR TU RED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received February 17, 8 a.in.) TOK 10. February Hi. There was a sensation in the House of Peers, when Kishichi Kokubo, a septuagenarian, who has twice been imprisoned for political activity, directed attention to police torture of prisoners and suspects. including forcing water through their nostrils, suspension by the feet, and branding of the forehead with hot irons. The Homo Minister replied that the police and Government officials concerned had already been punished. 'l'he. Government intended to eliminate torture. SNOWSTORM VICTIMS. TOKIO, February 16. A great snowstorm in the Iwate prefecture resulted in 5!) deaths, by the collapse of two schools and twenty houses. A train ran into thirty labourers clearing snow from the line at Hokkaido, killing five.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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