JAPANESE ON TRIAL
CHARGED WITH MURDER OF AMERICANS PALAWAN MASSACRE SEQUEL > TOKIO, Aug 2. Sixteen Japanese, including two former generals, went on trial to-day before the United States Military Commission at Yokohama charged with murdering 138 Americans in the “Palawan massacre," described by the chief of General MacArthur's legal section as “ one of the most dastardly deeds ever conceived in the minds of so-called civilised men.”
The Japanese brought 150 American soldiers, sailors and marines captured on Corregidor and Bataan to Palawan to build an airfield. When the American landing became imminent the Japanese herded the prisoners ir.to air raid shelters, threw petrol into the entrances and then flaming torches and hand grenades. All but 12 were burned to death or bayoneted .as they tried to escape.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26841, 4 August 1948, Page 5
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