JAPANESE TOWN “SHOT UP”
Tokio, Feb. j.<s. Five Japanese were killed and about 20 injured when a group of American soldiers ran amuck and “shot up” the town of Hachioji, west of Tokio. This was reported in an announcement by the United States Fifth Air Force. Five soldiers attached to the TachiKawa army air base were arrested after a ten-day search and were charged with murder. Hachioji police said that the American soldiers in a jeep pulled up on the Tachikawa-Hachioji road on the night of January 31, halted passers-by and slugged them with a three foot length of firewood. The soldiefs then went to Hachioji, entered restaurants, and broke glass and wrecked the furniture.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 February 1947, Page 5
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