FORMER JAPANESE ARMY OFFICERS GUILTY OF MURDER
LOS NEGROS, Nov. 20 (Recd. Bpm) —An Australian War Crimes Court today found three former Japanese army officers guilty of murder. It sentenced Major Hiroshi Itsui and Captain Tadushi Yasuda each to life imprisonment, and Captain Masuzumi Iguchi io live years. They had been charged, with having executed Australian prisoners of war, who escaped from Victoria Point Camp, Burma, on July 12, 1942. The prosecutor, Major A. D. MacKay, alleged the prisoners had been murdered without a trial as an ex-
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 November 1950, Page 5
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