JAPANESE MASSACRE
BALIKPAPAN OUTRAGE OIL LOSS RETALIATION TOKYO, 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 Balikpapan including three Catholic priests. Those who were not drowned were shot. Approximately 100 persons were killed. Van Amstel escaped by disguising himself as an islander. He saw one of the priests wading to his death, blessing floating bodies around him. The Japanese carried out the massacre because the Dutch authorities had not delivered the Borneo oil refining works intact. Islanders were forced to watch the massacre or be beaten.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 7 December 1946, Page 7
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