VENGEANCE KILLING
AUSTRALIANS KILL GUARDS WITH SWORDS Recd. 6 p.m. Brisbane, Sept. 23. Prisoners in Changi camp, Singapore, seized .Japanese swords and slew lour of tl;e most brutal guards as soon as they heard Japan had surrendered. The story of the vengeance killing was told when the first liberated 71. h Division men, captured in .Java in March, 1942, arrived by air yesterday. They said that when Admiral Mountbatten’s broadcast announcing peace was picked up on secret radios, some of the Changi prisoners found they were no longer guarded. These prisoners promptly decided to execute lour Japanese guards who had been particularly cruel. Armed with Japanese swords, they attacked :h-?b’ captors al. mess. To kill the four guards they had to cut down 40 others.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 226, 24 September 1945, Page 5
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125VENGEANCE KILLING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 226, 24 September 1945, Page 5
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