JAPS’ SUICIDE
CRIME CONFESSED BRITONS DECAPITATED WOULD NOT FACE TRIAL SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. Headquarters of the Australian land forces in South-east Asia revealed that behind the recent suicide of five Japanese Army officers lay the story of the decapitation of 12 British officers captured during the Allied air raids. The five Japanese, when they learned that the Allies were determined to bring the Japanese to account for every prisoner of war killed or ill-treated feared that their commander, Lieutenant-General Kinoshita. would Ido held responsible. They made out confessions and then committed suicide. Tlie confessions revealed that the executions were carried out privately without the permission of the superior officers. The five Japanese on March 9, 1945, took 12 British officers in a lorry to a beach where they decapitated them with swords. The bodies were then taken in a boat and dropped into the sea with a weight attached.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21922, 17 January 1946, Page 3
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