WAR CRIMINALS
DR. EVATT PROMISES PUNISHMENT (Rec. 9.30) CANBERRA, Nov. 30 Australia is determined that Japanese tvar,criminals will shoulder the responsibility for their crimes. Giving this assurance in the House of Representatives to-day the Minister of External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) said: “The Australian Government is determined that nothing that can be done to punish those responsible for ■brutality and cruelty will b e left undone. Suffering and idignities imposed on our soldiers cannot be condoned.” Dr. Evatt was presenting a report by Sir William Webb, Chier Justice of Queensland, who was appointed a special commissioner to inquire into Japanese atrocities in New Guinea and elsewhere. The Minister said that there was evidence that the Japanese had massacred, tortured and maltreated Australian* military and civilian personnel as well as natives in New Guinea.
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Grey River Argus, 1 December 1944, Page 3
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