Jap. Criminals To Die Today?
TOKIO, Fri.—lndications are that Tojo and the six other major war criminals sentenced to death with him will be hanged early tomorrow. A Buddhist priest who will administer the last rites to Tojo was called to the Sugamo prison today. Execution between midnight tonight and dawn tomorrow would follow normal Sugamo prison routine, under which all condemned war criminals have been hanged early on Saturday morning.
Thousands of people gathered in centrol Tokio to sign a petition to General MacArthur asking that the ashes of the condemned men should be returned to their families TOJO’S WIFE WANTS ASHES
The petition said punishment should end with execution and that it would be a crime to punish the families by withholding the ashes. At the request of Tojo’s wife, his attorney met General MacArthur to ask that Tojo’s ashes be returned tc her.
■ Lieutenant-General W. Walker, commanding the Eighth Army said that he agreed with General MacArthur’s decision to bar all but military witnesses from the executions, because he did not like the “gruesome publicity" given to the Nuremberg executions.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19481127.2.64
Bibliographic details
Northern Advocate, 27 November 1948, Page 5
Word Count
183Jap. Criminals To Die Today? Northern Advocate, 27 November 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Northern Advocate. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in