Atrocities

Reported on the sentencing of six Japanese soldiers to death by hanging after they were convicted of "slaughter[ing] 23 Filipinos, rap[ing] seven and tortur[ing] five at Barili on Cebu island on February 1944."

Reports on the sentencing of seventeen Japanese military men in Shanghai, China "for the strangulation and cremation of three American B-29 flyers at Hankow in December, 1944." Another news wire item reports on the sentencing of Lt. Gen. Fukuei Shimpei to death by shooting in Singapore.