MASSACRE IN 1942
JAPANESE ACCUSED BY SAILOR (Rec. 10 a.m.) TOKIO, Dec. 5. A Dutch sailor, Joseph van Amstel, told the War Crimes Tribunal that the Japanese in 1942 mutilated, drove into the sea, and killed all the Europeans in Balik Papan, including threeCatholic priests. Those who were not drowned were shot, until all of approximately 100 Europeans were dead. Van Amstel said he escaped by disguising himself as an islander. He isaw one of the priests wading to his death blessing, the floating bodies around him. The Japanese carried out the massacre because the Dutch authorities had not delivered the Borneo oil refining works intact. The islanders were forced to watch-the massacre or be beaten.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1946, Page 7
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