MORE BESTALITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 235, 3 September 1945, Page 2

MORE BESTALITY

3.45 P.M. EDITION

PERVERTED JAPANESE. (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (llee. 2.5 p.m.) '1.0.110. Sept. 2. The Japanese until recently looted lied Cross supplies of iood at the Shinagava prison camp, said l)rs. Gottlieb and Keschner after their release. They described Sliina-gaw-a as the worst plague spot of al‘l. Yet it was a show place, sometimes inspected by Generals. The Japanese previously told prisoners there were no lied Cross supplies of food, though there were 20,000 boxes in the camp. 11l prisoners were sent to do manual labour for private firms, including the Mitsui concern. Some were given the “mochsnn” treatment, in which burning dried grass was placed on the lower portions of the body. Two prisoners uied from inlection after such burns and others were scarred for life. A Japanese army doctor admitted that this was done at the order of Colomu Suzuki, commander of all war-prisoner camps in the Tokio area. Dr. Gottlieb said the Japanese practised tortures traceable to strange perversions. One 'Super-Fortress airman was dragged behind a motor-cycle through the city’s streets, and then stripped and tied to a flagpole in a square and subjected to peculiar torments by a semi-nude Japanese woman. The Associated Dress correspondent in Tokio reports that the Japanese, before or immediately after the surrender, apparently moved thousands of Allied war prisoners of war and internees from the Tokio area to the interior of Honshu. Despite malnutrition, morale is high among the war prisoners and internees in Hong Kong, says a message from Kandy. A British naval officer who has been there said the Japanese, prevented from taking iood and other stocks from the city, were being handled rather roughly by the Chinese section of the population. An army observer said there were 200,000 displaced persons in SouthEast Asia, many of whom required medical treatment.