MASS SUICIDE
Japanese Fanatics (7.30 P.m.) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13. Ten thousand Japanese civilians killed themselves on Saipan, said Captain Milton Sperling, Marine Corps, addressing 20,000 shipbuilding employees. He added that husbands cut the throats of their wives, mothers stabbed their own children, men shot, stabbed and bludgeoned their parents, some committed suicide with handgrenades and others jumped from cliffs. It was inconceivable to the American mind, yet it was typical of Japanese psychology. The Japanese are fanatics who refuse to surrender even when the situation is entirely hopeless.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22998, 15 September 1944, Page 5
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89MASS SUICIDE Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22998, 15 September 1944, Page 5
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