SENTENCED TO DEATH
CONQUEROR OF HONGKONG (Rec. 7 p.m.) NANKING, Aug. 27. A Chinese military tribunal sentenced to death Lieutenant-general Takashi Sakai, tne Japanese conqueror of Hongkong. Sakai was convicted of mass atrocities in Hongkong, conspiring to effect early Japanese encroachments in North China, torture and massacre of wounded war prisoners, and looting and plundering civilians.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26243, 29 August 1946, Page 8
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