Charges Homma Ordered Filipino Jurist Killed News Article
Charges Homma Ordered Filipino Jurist Killed News Article
| Date | |
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| Language | English |
| Collection | C.W.J. Phelps Collection |
| Box | Box 1 |
| Folder | First Phelps Scrap Book |
| Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
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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.