MASSACRE PLAN
GUARDS IN BORNEO 1500 INTENDED VICTIMS BID TO AVOID CAPTURE SYDNEY, Sept. 27. Tne Japanese guards in Kuching camp, Borneo, planned to massacre 1500 military and civilian prisoners of war on September 15.
Dr. Marcus Clarke, Government medical officer in British North Borneo, revealed this on his arrival in Sydney. He said the Japanese had planned to escape the advancing Australian troops and march into the mountains, using only 500 of the fittest prisoners as carriers.
Dr. Clarke discovered the details of the massacre plan in the baggage of a Japanese officer at Kuching camp after the enemy’s capitulation. .
He sa.d that when he found the details of the plan he realised the significance of the inspection of prisoners which was made about six weeks before the Japanese surrendered. The Japanese decided then who would be butchered Their plan meant that 30 women and 15 children m the civilian camp would have been among the remaining 1500 victims. After the march into t.he mountains, the 500 selected as carriers' would no doubt have been murdered, added Dr. Clarke.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21830, 28 September 1945, Page 3
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180MASSACRE PLAN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21830, 28 September 1945, Page 3
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