JAPANESE BUTCHERY
MASS SLAUGHTER IN MANILA. NEW YORK, Mar. 8. Documentary evidence discloses that 2500 civilians were bayoneted or burned alive in Intramuros (Manila) between February 7 and February 13 in the worst wholesale massacre of the Pacific war, says the New York HeraldTribune correspondent in Manila. Most of the butchery occurred in the dank dungeons of Fort SaiYciago, where all the males were arbitrarily classed as guerrillas and executed. When American troops opened tlio almost inaccessible dungeon they found 300 corpses packed tighter than sardines. They had starved to death. The bodies bore no marks of violence and many had fallen in attitudes of supplication as if clutching the bare stone for a morsel of food or a cup of water.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 85, 9 March 1945, Page 5
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122JAPANESE BUTCHERY Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 85, 9 March 1945, Page 5
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