JAPANESE TRIALS
AMERICANS RELUCTANT TO TESTIFY FIVE CRIMINALS FREED (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 8. A War Department official _ asserted that Japanese war criminals are being acquitted or are escaping with light sentences because American servicemen are reluctant to cross the Pacific to testify at the trials. For this reason five major criminals were freed recently in Tokio. Of 92 witnesses requested by General MacArthur in April only 15 agreed to testify. American officers on the trial commissions are reluctant to impose the death penalty or long prison, sentences 'solely upon information contained in affidavits.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 5
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