TRIAL OF JAPANESE VICE-WAR MINISTER ON WAR CRIME
LOS NEGROS, Oct. 16 (Reed 7pm). —General Masataka Yamawaki, former Chinese Vice-Minister of War, was charged before the War Crime Court today with the murder of Australian prisoners of war in Borneo in 1944. As General Officer Commanding the 37th Japanese Army, he had convened the court which unlawfully sentenced soldiers of an Australian reconnaissance patrol to death as spies after a “mere mockery of a trial,” said the prosecuting officer. Yamawaki issued the execution order. Though on active service at the time, Yamawaki was still Vice-Minister under the War Minister Tojo. Yamawaki and members of the court that tried the Australians pleaded not guilty to the murder of three Australian war prisoners at Jesselton, in Borneo. The other accused are former Lieut. - Colonel Toshimitsu Maeda, Captain Tomeyoshi Matsumoto, and Lieut. Kisou Kanazawa, all previously of the 37th Army headquarters. The three Australian prisoners were hanged in Jesselton gaol.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 October 1950, Page 5
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