Press - Post-War

Reports on the execution of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita by hanging in Manila, along with two other Japanese. Gives Yamashita's background, the atrocities he was found guilty of being responsible for, and his actions during the war.

Reports on the testimony of Hisashi Terada who maintained that Captain Hiroji Honda, an accused war criminal on trail at Yokohama, had lodged "protests against mistreatment of Allied prisoners of war by civilian employees of Joban Mining Company." Recounts the progress of Honda's trial and the courtroom events. Another news wire piece reports on the main points made by Homma's defense team at his trial in Manila.

Photograph with caption "Maj. Achille Tisdell (left), Chicago, reads to newsman at Manila trial of Gen. Homma diary he kept while prisoner of Japs. It was printed in The Tribune recently.

Reports on the testimony of Salvador Abad Santos to a military commission in Manila regarding the signing of a death warrant for former Philippines Supreme court chief justice Jose Abad Santos by Gen. Masaharu Homma. Other topics reported on include: testimony at the Tokyo war crimes trial on orders to Japanese guards to kill Allied POWs "in event of allied amphibious or skyborne landings in Japan," affidavits presented in court relating atrocities, and witness testimony regarding the beatings meted out by Japanese military men in prison camps.

Reports on how Soochow, China was quickly becoming the center of treason trials because the Kiangsu High Court was located there. Gives an overview of the locale, the lead up to the beginning of the trials at Soochow, and individuals implicated in treason.