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e v i d e n t ] } c c u : x a t jtc.-5047b. Ii^Srj.LJTIOXAL feUTiJTY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FaH KuST NOr 1 T T u： UITJTZD CT-i-TES OF /J;.IER.TC;A, J、]D OB5 • - a ^ a i n c t - ^JiJ'i, .̂ iD ons. • I, GUORGS rOLx.II 7 , : xikc octl, and say as follous：- i 1. I rrしs Cl-ai lain Goor. G polain, m.70175• of 2/26 Battalion. I ！ becar.e a prisoner of wlj? at sir^.apore on 15 February 1942. I , ‘ ！ 2.- only Cliincce エ sm? oxecutcd rcre 43 bodies f sonetin after ！ the capitulation of sixio^pore # Ti〕.eir hands :.ere ^lecl Del.ind their backs j -nd ro^s \:ere still around tl-eir Leads. of then had boon shot through tho head, ^hey xcotq tied toしetlier in fours• ^.at uould be just after Easter 1942, so;.ev;horo about ^ r i l。 Tlie natives in the canp nearby said the Japanese had executed the:... All I sat; uas the bodies - the “skeletons, ！ 3* Tl: only ctlier people エ saw like that r;ac a section of our o^n I E^-ttalion at \7hat locked to be a Japanese nq f near Eulciti.xili•. | The Sl^* v/as sc^* rat O'F^ill, Jtijor Tracy will knor; the nanes of ！ the other His body, together v:ith five others t was lyinこ’there, ：his hands t了ere tied behind his back and he had been shotthrou^h the j head jthat v. r ould be about June or July 1942 • It looked to as thou^l: they had been uakinし their v;ay back when captured by tlie Japanese t token ! to this Ccrjpany ^nd there the whole of then were _shot • i | 4- They had been sLot sor.je consiaeruble t b e f o r e the capitulatic j Their hands vere tied r;itl: rope and cloth# There were still pieces cf | r a ^ c d clotli around their eyes. They had tLoir id en t if i cat i on discs ；じnd soi..e of tlicu also had pay books and marks of identif icati on• They i were lyinし alon^j a trench； it riしht have been said to have been an oxen ！しrave• ^hey uere probably lined up beside the trencli and killed there t j probably with the idea of putting the bodies in the trcnch, but they nero I not buried• ！ I . ！ (Sicrxd) GEORGE TOL-IM. Sworn before ne at Sidney on the ) ITinth day of s^pteiiber 1抑 6 , ) (Signed) V^SFIZLD. jud^ e of suprene Court of Queensland, D O C F ^ N T 5242 ぐ0ン汗 I，7T390广6 "aior John "evin LLOYD of iririy Headquarters make oath and say 1。 I aî an officer of the •mstiali-n 5"ilitiiy Forces 2, \nne-'ecl hereto and ma? ked "广:t tド’ •？. true copy of an aiffiea-rit sworn by I.esl\3" 'illiam on 27 a：.-, 1?4S ^jhich I h.”e in ？y cvstoこy in the cor.-"se of duties, ，’• The orijin-.l. if-JWiY^.t cannot be made available i^reeiateT^ as it is reqvirec for trlalr： oi rrinor crimxnr.ls. -vo- n before re at 一丁「尸0广 I'"S ) this 27 む " o f ”マ194-6. ) /s/ J. TAoyd aior D._ Crqj-^ton .....Ca P t \n officer of tae Australian m i t e r y forces DOCT.r柳T NO, 524-2 P\GE 2 IN THS TIA.TTER of War Crimes and IF TJIS II/VTT^R of ..ぺ17837 Private Leslie '""illiam FcC\NN of 2/4 rT achine Gun Battalion (^IF). I, Leslie 'nili\m ”cCann of 159 Onslow Road, SHSFTON PA.RK, in the State of 'estern Australia, civilian, formerly Private Leslie William 礎 of 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion (1IF), being duly sworn make oath and say-- 1 . O n Wednesday 4 February 194-2 during action SOUTH 莉ST of BUI'IT TSMAii Village I was wounded by ？,ortar fragments in the right leg,and regained with other wounded in a native house. The party inclvded British officers whose names I now know to be Capt THOMAS and LIEUT A.LDBICH, both of Leister Kagt. During the next day the others moved out but I remained. ！ ' 2 . On Friday the 13 February 42 I was joined by ？ X I 6 6 7 ヲ j Private R。J。viLLHTHISH； of my own imit who had. received four I machine gun bullets in the right leg. moved out in the evening towards the : 7EST Coast Boad and received medical treatment at a Mohammedan Institution. I was still armed and had fired on two enemy soldiers on the way。 3. We were informed on Sunday the 15 February by the "Mohammdenas in the evening that the battle of Singapore was over and we could proceed to Signapore itself. In the morn- ing we moved towards Singapore along the West Coast Road and about 1100 hrs met three other Australian soldiers near PA.SIR PANJ:\NG Village. The names of these "mstralian soldiers I cannot recall with certainty. r 'e had^previously disposed of ov.r arrr-s and when we informed these Tren that fighting hac" finished they disposed of theirs. Carrying t ttllHOUSE we moved on to VkSTB ?.\NJ.\NG. Here Japanese sentries usj at the entrance to a hoiise, later known to be a Japanese HQ. I presumed this to be a Japanese HQ in view of the fact that guards were posted around it. I cannot say what HQs this would be but from the situation on Gingaっore Island, at that time it appeared to be the HQs of that Japanese force which landed on the West Coast of the Island, We were ordered inside, our jack-knives were taken from us and we were led to the Asiatic quarters at the rear of the house and locked in a sn:all room with two barred windows, about 1300 hours. ' ;ir e were fed b y ^ n English-sneaking Japan&aa. Later, about 1800 hrs, we were taken out and(put on to a motor truck and informed we were to be taken to where Australian troops were being concentrated.^ A.t the gate 'we met another party of ten ".-ustralians ton of 001 under one guard. These inolvded 冗13977 WO I ” G. F, .'.TREY and WX7336 Pte H。B。 OCKSEBY both of my own unit. The remainder were all 2/18 Bn.j This party had been taken by the Japanese to drive carriers that morning. The driver apparently did not know his destination, he drove to a place behind the FordJHiQiojLj^orks, then North along BUXIT TEKAH Roa<?, where he remained" rntil dark, then returned to the house from whence we had come. During this tine none of us had been taken off the t r u c k . 1を had、 tie en sub.iecte.d _to hostile demonstrations and an attempt had been made to deprive W T 1 TTKET"o'f "KTs haversack. /fO I illPSY DOCr^ITT NO, 5242 The interpreter was tall and slim., 6' in height Crjarticularly dark. He wore glasses. He appeared to quite good-natured and even-tempered for a Jap. • • ‘ •"'0 <\ lREY resisted this attempt, explaining his rank. On our return r-rere locked in the same room and given a meal, by the same Snglish-spsaking Jaoanese. He said "j^on 1 1 be afraid, you are _quite safe.—* T e are now vour friends." ~ tTter the meal a Japanese "CnTTcer" came in and another Ja panese crowded round the windows inquisitively。河e were warned to answer truthfully and the senior man called for 河0 I A.IRSY who stood uo and declared his rank. He was questioned regarding military movements in Australia and overseas, the number of .l-ustralian troops in ''"alaj/a, and American troops in Australia。 He evaded the questions and メhe officer said he thought the replies were not trutlifv-l, then iricuired. If we world like to go home to \ustralia \ arrl Ta^yliRr' trynieally when v7e~re-jliea "Yes 1 ""! lie then \asked ov.r Units ano マ0 I iTHEY said we were machine Gunners, the eleven soldiers not of iny Unit then sooka up and said they were drivers. A.fter an animated* discussion the officer anc" interpreter left the room. A little later we were told we v/ov.ld stay the night and that he would en- deavour to arrange for bedring. 4. The officer who subjected vs to interrogation per medium of an interpreter a m e a r e d to me to be of high rank。 He wore coloured tabs and a distinctive braid on his left shoulder which hung lkie a lanyard. He was abcat 5'2" in height, portly and inclined to be chubby in the face, I don 1 1 knovj whether he hacl a roonstache or wore glasses. His hair was nruch lighter than the average Japanese, cut short but not close-croアeo. "'e did not see this officer again and I think there is a distinct っossibility that I might be able to recognise him again if I saw him in person. I would say definitely that this officer was senior in rank to arjy other officer contacted by us at the time these events took つ l a c e . 5. :e received adequate food and water and smokes, were not rcolssted and were permitted latrine facil'ties on 17 February. No bedding was supplied but some clothes, bandages and dressings were given us for wounded men。 r- • —• ^ 6. On 18 rebruary we again received adequate food etc. 7. From cavm the Japane appeared very unfriendly, except one lan who pushed food quickly through the window and then ran away. It appeared to me that overnight there had been a complete change in Japanese personnel, in the form of another unit taking over. I could not identify the incoming vnit nor can I give any informa- tion that might assist in establishing its identity. The change in atmosphere was most marked, and our requests or water were ignored qj^answered with jeers,.1 noted all the names of our party in my paybook which I later lost after my attempted execution. This being so, the onlv names of our part:?" which I can furnish with cer- tainty are iIREY ? OCICERBY, IIILLHOFSS and one 2/18 driver ! named SHEEIDaN and known as "Musclas". :)t about 173〇 hrs we were taken out singly and ou.r hands tied behind our backs with strips torn frotri a bag;*. WO I A.IHSY still wore ' h i s haversack. ana be /We DOCUMENT NO。究42 P:\GE 4 ‘V7e were marched doivn the road in file, led by a Japanese', ̂ hon I thought at the time to be an officer but now realise that he 1マas probably a senior sergeant. reason for this is that I noticed at the time that he was wearing leggings as opposed to the officers equipment of high topped boo七s。 He was about 5"' 2" in height and • wore glasses, had a moustache and v/as thickset in build. He was probably in his thirties。..’マe had a Jipanese soldier as a jr.ard at the rear. Hostile demonstrations were_^ade Try .Tnn^ripq^ 1 ining the roa<? a n r T T o n k -、 Jjor, winrlnwg-. -9 turned NORTH into P 1 !：!0R̂ -T.\T0RY Rd, and m r c h e d aiboiit fou.r hunc'red yards。 I was in the leading file and Pte 7 ^ILLH0T.TSE in the rear v/hen I called out to hiro to find out whether the pace was too fast, I was shotted at absuively by the Japanese in charge。 ::7e ; ' turneci off to the left of the road and continned for about one hundred yards, haltec 1 ,and. were formed into single rank with our backs to a creak. I was the right hand man, tTILLIlハTTSS. tna left hand m n , with A.IEBY and OCISRBY near hira。 Seven Japanese soldiers then appeared a:, med with British rilles with bayonets flxgd, and lined up fn single rantc lacing ns. at about thirty feet distance. The Japanese in conmand then addressed his troo'os from my flank, then ordered us to turn .round and face the creek. He then 究ave__ aji order and I heard tne sound of rifle baits being worked. I then considered, they might shoot us but was not convinced that this would happen. I leant forward to say to my neighbours something like "This doesn't look too good" and as I was straightening up the Japanese in commanc gave another order anc" the 一 f i r i n g s a u a d ^ X i r ^ l . I was struck by a bullet ”hich entered below my left shoulder blade, anci emerged~"between my third and 0ourth ribs, smashing "them。一I was "quite conscious and could have remained standing, but fell do、《n the fairly steep bank into the creek facing the opposite bank. Another man fell with his head against r^ wounded right leg, he was not killed^ ^and kept talkinミ。I have no idea in what order the men were shot", "but v/hen all had fallen into the. crefilc. _th§ ^ Jaoanese approachsr 5 , anc 1 . fired nany more shots into the _ bodies shovtin：'： all the time they were firing. The nan resting on my leg continued shouting at the Japanese and about a dozen shots were fired into him, one shot just missing ray head。 From the other enc' of the line another voice kept shouting at the Japs,, Firing r-on tinned imtil all was ！ quiet, After abort five minutes T looked around. Move- ment was a w kwarc?. as I was bouncl and encumbered by the next man, I finally sat up and spoke but received no answer nor did anyone move, I was now feeling dazed and brought up blood when I spoke. I managed, to free my hands j quite easily and removed my boots and then moved マesterly j down the Creek towards the WEST Coast Rd : but collapsed ' a f t e r a short distance, -̂ t this time it was still light, proba"bly about 1830 hrs. 8。 Before dawn I recovered consciousness bf.t fainted again recovering at first light. I washed my wound and removed the bandage from rry leg to my chest. I was unable to dress my back. I moved back towards the place of shoot- in? bv.t coliIcI only see that a rubber tree hac， been felled across the bodies.レthen一took shelter.in a native build- ing two Chinese, a man and a woman came in an5" asxed if I was one of the men shot the day before. I admitted I 双as and they said that they had seen the shooting. They /pointed DOCUI-.ISNT NO。ヲ242 pointed out their house bnt said they could saying th;it they were leaving on acrcmnt of but ？;ould return when the Japs had gone. I two days ? seeing no-one. •D not help me, the Japanese, stayed there' 9. From this tims on I am uncertain of times and days and dates. [ f o r _ a b a u i — a i g h t . . . d a y _ s — 宅 d towards Singaporej_and finally came to what appeared to be tha~t __ part~ of Singa^ora knov;n as 1 Chlnaiovm' and eventually collapsed. A young Sihk Taolioeman brought me coffee—and hailed a rick- sha\7 and at my reo^est sent me to the_5ingapore C-eneraI~ Hosxtitai-.- ^ gprrhry fラ行 t^ PT'SYftnf rne entering the build- ing, but I got in through a hole in the blasts{？ wall and lay down in a passage, k dsntal assistant found me and hid me in a rloset and brought a man named Professor TPATI'IAN 竹ho was carrying on as a dentist under Japanese ordsrs. 、 I met him again later interned in CHAJGI, He took me to his surgery and dressed my wounds. I did not divulge their caiiss. He and his assistant sheltered we in their rooms。 Their position was vary difficult ant? later a Jap Dr had me moved to the main ward uncl'sr the clock tower and I came under Jap medical people. The Professor came with ms and gave me ten collars, he said he knew I •^as an ‘Vustralian soldiar and if I had any reason to fear Japanese enquiry regarding my wound to feign mental shock. I was attendad by a Eurasian orderly for about a week and not questioned by the Japs, my treatment was good. By 15 '"ay 1942 I was able to walk and was taken out to a motor car and ヮas asked by a Jap civilian what I did in Singapore. I replied that I was a driver in the AJF, I was then driven to Changi Gaol and handed over to the British G a o l。 " a Administration. I have them my full particulars and they told the Japs that I should be taken to スelarang Barracks whejre the ^-ustralian soldiers were interned. Kevsrthe- less the Japanese sale 1 that this Dr had ordered that I regain at Changi Gaol unti1 fit. T remained there tmtil 12 Oct 1942 when I was moved to Selarang Barracks and rejoined py unit. 10. ^hile I was in the Singapore General H o s p i t a l , I ascsrtainec' the name of a wounded Japanese soldier in the bed next to mine as T&T30U ^DA.CHI, whosa address was 1102 I mention this fact as assistance in the' identification of both responsible for these atrocities. it may be of persons and units .デ.70EI、 T ̂ Y • 11 } r 3 SklD Leslie William McCiNN) at PERTH in the State of " T estern ) Australia on this 2?th clay of M a r c h , ) 194-6. ) (sgd) L . W . M c C 驅 . Before roe George 1 マ，Gwynne. .1 Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Western Australia lor taking affidavits. Exhibit "C" - This is the document marked Exhibit "C" re- ferred to in the affidavit of Major J. K. Lloyd sworn be- fore me this twenty-seventh day of ！lay 194-6 as being pro- duced and sho?m to him at the time of his swearing his said affidavit。 /s/ R . D. Crorapton, Capt. A.n officer of the A^ustfaiian Military Forces. Evidentiary Document Svidence token before justice Mu^SFIEID in S y ^ e y on Friday, l6th JTovember '1945» I 11X33386 Gpl. CROFT ’ G^orgo .aexemier, “OC, attached 2/30 Bn, being duly sworn gi^es tno fo〕lowing avide.uco• I am IH33886 Cplo CROrr. George Alexander, AAOC, attached 2/30 Br“ On 23 January 」9訌2 ニ Tias in S i Patrick • s Hospita3. with tinea P I v;as boarded for home; hc^ever.IS 1 -：)or IJjdu cane in for voj.unteers to relieve the sick men and I voIunt^oT^d to g o ,… e .i.n The skin section at St. Patrick' and v/e were taken to the n a m hosuil r — *.7e v/ere put into tv/o trucks uhich had ca^ ^ed C.rco:..；:ヒレ、••、'.mンマ。first truck ueni out and \ias iimediat^ly fo Llor/ecl し“7 vh^ aeoond in i^hicii t v/as tra-.'olling：, Je had not gone very fa;：4 when tho fi'rsz i;r*ac'.c puilac up T «p*m round, and trent hack Diist us, \'e atteinpted to turn ? got hair-Tray round cn the ro しd 5 and a machine gun opened fire 011 us。 The truck v;as hit and it stepped aciross the roade ム fer; of those in the back of the truck got cat and ran and got away. ;7e, Loxvever f v/ere surrouudod and taken by the J*apaneae f j uho made us sit down so we could net escape 0 ĵ a Australian officer from tho Con Depot casie up, arguing the point with the Japanese and asking that ue be taken brick as we uore sick men。 Actually, vo uere supposed to be g' ing to the Con Depot in ；Singapore• The Japanese would not listen^ One chap who ；;as hit through the knee v;ith a machine gun bullet v/as allowed to go but not the resfc。 They marched us along the road level uith the machine gun post and turned right Quay from i:atcng u • ;*e ;:ero taken about three miles by road and placed in native huts. Ihere r/ero liino A u s t r a l i a n s I n the room there were civilians 一 Europeans and T^ilSr ,e v;ere made to sit on the floor ；vhere we could get in and vere not questioned at all # こ'Jg v;cre there so long and bhe Japanese guard came in and took out three men with their hands tied together• thought they were being taken out for questionings it uqg not long before three shots rang out and left 110 doubt as to what had happened e They kept coming in and going out, talcing tliree each tiii^ and then there youlcl be .nore shots, I was in the last "three to go« ;e uere tokgn to the front room and zaadc to sit dこ,im and then blindfolded« .;e were then led outside, still I tied together, and made to -sit dcnvn not far from the house, it T;a<5 not long before something crashed into Lie and I v-c,s knocked b a c k .エ ucis caught by the heel and t h r o m into a drain. I knev. 7 v;hat vrould happen if I moved so I just lay there, L^ter I slipped the blindfold and had a lock» I couldn f t see anyone about しnd it uas getting right on dark then and so エ untied itself; slipped off niy boots and crav/led out of the d r a i n ,エ got tlirough a double barbed v;ire fcnce. my idea being to ^c back to E^-tcng Hospital^ エ vixs T/cunded a bullet havirg entered the loft side of my head about the cheekbone and out )011 the right side of the, back of my nsck.^ エ ^vas spitting blood, arid there uas blood ever^T;hcre t I set dorm under a troc tc rest* It x:as dark and ェ Evidentiary Document 焚.5045* 2. was in a rubber plant at .ion» エ wen 七 to sleep and never woke till dawn, I started off and started to get weaker and weaker and I was getting bushed. I did not know then that capitulation had taken place the iiight before and natives I met would not have anything to do ~;ith me. Then /I discovered エ could not speak. I エ wandered round and round and finally came to a place where Portugese people t a man and his uifo and a fev; children, lived. The ；voiaan wanted to nash me as soon as sho saw me«, They spoke English, but this chap told her not to interfere with me ar- it might do me more harm than good. They gave me a cup o.f coffee and it ran cut tha side of my neck. He took me down tho road and puニ me on the track through the bush leading to the hospitals a little ci^ineso girl ran ahead to the hospital and two orderlies came out and met me0 They v/ero Australian orderlies from the A-G.H. and they took me into the hospital from there., I was six months in hospital. X coule not identify the men who fired on the ambulance and later did the shooting, but most of them wore big bushy beards; they v/ere in uniform. I have difficulty in speaking. I get a cold easily and cannot swallow food correctly # if I ^-et anything hot I slobber and I also get bad cramps from the side of ivy face down to the throat • The bullet cut the back of my tongue • ； I never spoke from February to NovemberJ and I had to be fed through a t u b e .エ speirfc the rest of the period in Changi as a prisoner of \ . I was in charge of the bootxaaking branch and had 3 2 bootmakers under me« I v/as servicing everyone 1 s boots - Italian, Dutch, British, Australian, Japanese and Koreans, マ hen the Japanese sent their boots to be mended in most cases they sent material with then, v/e had a Korean quartornaster at the store all the time and they had their ov;n material locked up in a locker. 了;hen ire ivunted to mend Australian cmd English boots ;to used motor tyre and also had some stuff manufactured out of raw latex. Tliey also supplied us with a bit of yakla which v?as not much good. Old kit bags v/ere cut up for uppers. did 70, 8 0 , 1 0 0 repairs a day and had tuo shifts running for a long while. :，e used to v;ork from 8 or 9 in the morning to 5 P •瓜•邸d then the other shift v;ould come on and v;ork to 10.30 night • I wore wooden clogs which I made for myself or any old pair of boots at all. I had no trouble vith the Japanese as regards bashings. Quite a few Japanese officers carue in and also Japanese and Korean soldiers. I spent quite a lot of time making sword belts for them also. Tlie Korean quarteriaaster was Oycuna Debushi, yho uas a good type as they g o . '.7c had no boot repairing equipment., in tiie latex stages v after ve had struggled along for about two years, they brought out from town about a dozen pairs of pinchers, which vero useless. Evidentiary Document 3。45 The Japanese had their o m army boot shop at Singapore but エ never sau it« tIî Y i iハ .ユ i n c r y ihcre, T^-^ reason they took their boots to us instead of âicing them :>izo:re 170̂ that they xioto getting a better job from us than from their own poop.lc； The Chinese did an excellent job but they uere also got ting an price at that time and they were getting it done from us for no•ブa— ).s。 I was in the 济1は助ら’ Gouare incident. I knov? a chap who has photos of it arid I て/ill try to gox .soos for the C〇inmissioii 0 ェ certify that this c^iaencs is true dtA. ccrrccfc 0 before mo crl. c-^cLnoy 011 Friday l6za November 1944 (Signed) G.A, CEOFT e (Signed) A , J , 腳 S F I H Coiarnissioner • 14272C6 - Gunner HUKTEH, D. f 872575 一 Gunner 狐，了” and 1427395 - Gunner JEFFRIES. ucro 'iAsQinc frcn cur lines • on 19 W'Tch 丄ヲ斗2 ェ rcccived ci ncssc^e to atterxd c.t General pEBCr/.X 1 s Head quarters as three ijon of ny regiment had been r.pprchondcd by the japcxicse out side the canp cmd that the jr pane so proposed tc shoot thcz. % 1 v;cnt tc Hしこ-こQu Ttcrs, t:-ikin£thc Rcrnn catholic Cii..plcin f by r̂ u/.o ::ムTSOiT, v;ith :x, uhcrc エ tt. .s tcld by Brigadier IIEVBIGGIIW that the japmQso xjoto determined tc carry out the she、tir毛 despite the fact that GcnorCcl PUJCIWJL hc.d ledgeこ a strong pretest agr.inst it zs being absolutely i l l e g a l . " s a result cf another ixsscge frcn the Japcjiosc I sent fcr the ixn 1 s E-ttory Cco^ander, Captr.in B . GRIFFITH v;ho arrived shortlj aftGrv;crds. # Brifiudior JE..BIGGIITG tock the throe of as in his cct tc the headqucrtors cf tlia japc.rxsc prisoners of ..ar i^iinistr^tion. shcrtly after cur arrival there the tliroc gunners v;ho had been Liissii^ arrivod in c；lcrry frcn tho dirccticn cf SIT了G^POHE, ĵf'tcr scno ccn- vorsi-itiori botuccn Bricr.dicr KS/BIGGIFG cjid the Japanese he tcld no thut the latter had refused G o n e r p l ^ C I V ^ i ' s request fcr lonicncy and were going tc shcot the three prisoners • gvidfentiary Docuucnt 5081, EJ Tin li.TTEH OF JJi CRIMES •JT CILJTGI PRISONER OF .j』C.Jff. F F I D „ V I T. /J, Lieutcncait-Ccloncl CI-LJJISS PHILLIP HEJTH, D.S.O., Hcyal ^jrtillcry, with pcrziivn&nt ho^c r.ddross、-1 “HDIDEE GOTT-GE, ĴJDI/IDRE RO^J), PiJJKSTOKl, DORSET, liJTE a.TH fmd say as follcT.s； 1. I was captured in a U T G ^ O R Z oil15 February 1942 and v;as thercrjTtcf confined ii:the fcllcuing prisoner of vex cr.ups during the periods statodj- 啦 孤 1 I-L172L0CI： E0』功<1) u r n m Vijir/ CLJ/DPS) n KB^iKJI HCSPITユ Frcn 18 rcbruary 1942 16 m y 1942 25 D c c d r 13k2 4 Jtino 1945 till Until 16 m y 1942J 24 Decenber 1942 3 Juno 1943 the cessation of hostilities. 2. ;,'icn I originally arrived at G l i U C‘..up tlie Senior Eritish Officer wc.s Li^utcnant-General p^lRCIVii caid tho jap:aiGsc Supervising Officer itしs Lit-utor:rait OK̂ S/J'I- î i'sclf xic.s Officer Coriiianclin̂ 9"th Cc-ast Rcgiuciit, ncy-l i'jrtillory, cf uhcL. tlicre v;crc about seven huiidrod all rarJcs in tlac 3. In ivprch. 1942 three rx-xi of ny regiment, nanely: • • • 依 s Svidcnticxy Docunent -jf 508l # 2. 5 . Fe fclicked the lorry in Brigadier NETBIGGING's ccjr tc the ccast nocr BETING IDJS.. rdiero he reaained with the cclt while GRIFFITH,ャニTSON cjid ryself vjalkecT 5° c r yr.rds dc\7n tc the boach. The three Gunners v;ere ordered cut cf tho lorry and ェ ncv: sc.w that their hands v/ero tied behind their backs and attached tc a length cf cord held by their guards. A Japanese interpreter ccmc tc us and said the nen ucre gcing tc be shot c.nd sliov/ec 1 . us T;hero vc v;ero to witness it fron # 6 # ；jfter T7e three officers had spokon to the Gunners, they uere led to the sito of tho czccuticn where a single grave had been dug. They ycrc blindfolded and ixtde tc kneoi clcxTn beside the grave at intervals of about one and a hしIf yards. The Japanese firing party of three stood about thirty yards av/ay liA fired a volloy on an order frcn the Japanese V̂ irrant officer or F.C.O, in charge of then # All three raen fell alnost siuultaneously but, obviously, not all of then were dead. The firing party and the i-,t # c .0* then ucllcocl up to tho grave and f under the latter f s direction, finished eff the prisoners still alive by firing at least 3 rx>rc shots. 7. ムftcr the grave hc.d bean filled in the Japcjicse cerencniously saluted tho grし ve and d^ccrated it with shrubs from the undergrowth• The jcparxGse interpreter told r.:e I had seen prisoners shct because they had atterptcd tc esccvpe end ho had been instructed that エ v;as tc T7arn all others thcit their fこte v;cald be the soliq if any cf then wero caught trying tc escapeり/ 8. Tcucrde the end cf February 1942 it boccme ccrxion knoulodge in the cal̂ ) tlict c. nur.iber cf Chinese uenbers of the Straits settlement Volunteer force h?-d boen convoyed by the Japanese tc tho beach east cf CI-L'JNTGI follcT/ing their capture, and there mrdered by mchino-gur fire、 This uas imdorstood to have taken place こ、‘ fev; days after the capitulaticn. ム burial party provided by British infentry frcn the southern area of the cc:;ip # 9. During ny stay in the coup ccnditicns generally ccnporod favour- ably uith these in cthor Japanese prisoner of wax canps with the nctable oxcepticn cf the feed. Tiiis \jlis inferior in bcth quantity and quality• 丄(）• As in ether Japanese coups riany priscncrs v;ero 丄oyed on constructing military r/crks; in CH^NGI on building an dr-field near the ccnp 書 11. エ have re:id tho affidavit of Li^utenant-Cclcnel G.E.C. ROSS^LL, sv;crn at ;;i;STl'IINSTSH on 13 Deceubor 1945 邸なェ consider it represents a true general picture of tho ration pesitien しt the cai.ip # S\;om： by the aforesaid CHARLES PHILLIP : U H ) こ"t 6 spring Gardens in the city cf *;esti.dnster) this Eighth day of J.Ĵ JJJY 194^, ) (Sgd.) C.P. HEATH. Bofcro i.:c f (SGこ•) R.D.L. ICELLY, Captain Legal Staffs military Departncnt, Office of iho judge ^dvccr.te General,London. jyidentiary Docunent # _508l. 3. I certify that this is a true copy of theoriginal affidavit. (Signed) A.M. Sch MXDONiiD, Mijor. Legal Staff. Office of the judge Advocate General. lyidentiory Document ； • UOTHTIO^-Jj KLLIZJTI TRIETJUL TOR TI3T Fi.B MST K0-. I THE UKITUD SLATES OF AM2PJCA, and ors. -^GAUiST - ぶ皿， S A D』 9 and ors. I, JOHN M T i l A U ••."FIGHT, of Sydney in the State of New South -valos mairie oath and say as fol.'.'oris,- エ； l W - 2 2 3 3 L t C o lone 2 John '•"il.lioin '^.ight, 2/15 Field pegi- nient when エ beeこme a prisoner of I'ar cf the Japanese at Singapore on February 1942 3 2« prior to that date , about 24th or 25th of January 1942 I saw an ambulcjico convoy bombed from a low ho.lght near Aycritam in johoro« It was a British conマoy of approxlrnaiely ten vahicles and it was attacked by three Japanese bomberso r;as exじel丄errt and the attack was deliberate. Four or five of tlie vehicles v/liich contained v/ounded men v/ere hit, and three of them, were lef-i; burning。 some of the occupants uere irounded^ 3« Tho vchiclas were plainly marked with the Red Cross on the sides and rocf cind there v;as no mill亡a.ry target nearby» 4* in the MJia:r River fighting a par~y of prisoners, including Lieutenant ; x 0 E ^ a r d s and Gnr。B•でaddon T/erc roped together with about 10 or 12 other prisoners and were marchcd for soinじ days. One cf the party £gt• Keillor, had been ill and could not wajk,,エo ras officially reported to me by the su.rvivors that he was taken off the string of prisoners, taken aside into the jungle and -shortly after that a couple of shots were heardo The Japanese guard returned grinning and the inarch was resumed. The guard later told the survivors that the sick man hod been shot beccuse ho could net keep up x;ith them, (Signed) J0H1 T ：；. ."RIGHT e S^crn before me at Sydney on the fourth day of September 19紅 (Signed) A.Jo MiKSFIELD e judge of the supreme Court of ouecnslandc Evidentiary Docuuent No. fぐ0ら仔 The international military Tribunal for the far East • The UQ.itecl states of x j : x r i a n d others “PL. r 丁 sadao an 5. ^others. A ^ Y I 1 A 7 I m . lit FRZDZBICF CllPiLIS STXLJST； cf 2a U u p o o l Street, North Fitzroy in tho state of yictcrl^： ouko oav h rmd say a - Oil 26th January 1942 エ u s Senior Hcprcscutativc of the Australian Red Cross Society and r;as a'itachcd to t-Iie British Ease Hospi- tal 1 ' at “lexandrci, s^^^porc« On s^tui day, February lij.ti 1942 じt approximteiy P “二 the hospital \:as storr.:cd by japancso troops«, Eitcrin^ the r.:ain ground floor ,corridor fron the south eatjt end and over the back balcony, these troops racod through tlx building ? bayonetxing and shoot ixx^ all rho cai.x in their path f leaving behind tiic-i...a puth cf death and dcctruction. There could not be any ristal-zin^ tho nature of the buildings All the r."edicul staff were iTOcirin^ Red C'-oss Brじssaris, the bods had j?cd Cross comitorpenes and tlieconvcntiohl.1；..larlrin^s 'vcrc o:. tl^c cutGido and the inside of the building.厶liu^e pod Cross upproxii.£itcly i|.0 feet square was on the ground iiiUGdiately in front cf the buildin t { j t There was no hostile act whatc-ver fron the hospital to provolx tais attack<> '/itlil6 patients and tuo ;.;cdical officers エ rcrbircd tc 2 Operating Tiieatro 01: the ground floor curing the raid ft I sax: tv/c Britich boyc bayonettud^ They vvorc ize .hers of the I./anchestcr Refinert, ^Stor tho rしid I Qav quite a nuuber dead ”to had oecn bayoncttcd or shot, I assisted brin^in^ into the wards several r/ho had bし ch T:oimdcd, aid l\o 6しad bodies ::ero 1ンinし in the corridor^ Tlicse bodies \Jcre collected and buried on Lpnaay 16th • The raid lc-.sted about 30 ninntcs. These troops entered Fo , 1 Opしrcitinら Theatre on the opposite siae of tl:e Liaii corridor to i/lv.ere I was lccutcdo ょji operation was in progress cn a lad f'roi-： the f { し l i e x;as under the aiiaeathutic^ Two doctors and tuc i.:odicai orderlies were in attendance• One of the jap^'iese thrust his bayonet through the body of the patient, without any provoca- tion or T;arniri{ b the other Japanese turiied upon the i ̂ dical staff and killed one doctor and cue orderly しJid vouudinし tiic other ti..cu I satr tニis scenc after the raid had ended,,エ assisted in bringing the vounded doctor cind orderly into the sur^iculて,arc,'エ obtained the above details fron tliei.：. Dozens of deud bodies ucre pickcd up in tlio hospital pounds しt nightfall and ucrc placed in slit trcnciios for burial fl j • I do net knov: r;Lat unit of the Japanese vus responsible for this � jiyidentiary Docunent No. 3 Q 5 2 B . 2. trci^edy other tli. n infer, icn し iv し n by a j：.panose officer who visited tLe Lospit̂ .l oil j/ondayj j?el:ru, ry .パ:‘.clu l"e i as a Lie 1 —レンru xiし I:し caid it VTU3 tLe inpei^ial Guards T:i-.o cixtcrc.d the Hospital f i r s t l i t spci.o voi-y ^ood snglish^ The30 troops xiere dressed in tropical yrfcen unil orus, stoel heliiet 3 and usualljj litary equipnent, Their unif oni3 v;ere caiiionflaged T:ith branches of trees and tuigs。 I.にny of thei^ were like walking shrubs• These rxn rore all about 6 feet tall e I5ost of the jupoiiese seen later \7erc short in stature, about tho 5 foot m r k e The Couuaiidiiig Officer of tlie hospital,8 ctlier officers and nyeclf cscapcd death and injury。 The Ct0o Colonel Jノ了ヵ C r a vじ c o n t a c tccl t.hレ on::i}y of ber the raid but could not ^et any satisfaction frcn tiicr.. t: T-jc pcinn^d to the Rod Cross brassuro.£3 and i.:arkings but てこs brushed uvay ai-d no notice talien cf hii... There did not appear to be cizy officcr in cliar^o of the Japanese ? L. Touards eveninし the japuiiosc i.jastercd all patients i7]io verc on the ground floors し]so q feu sn.ff âid ri^clicd then off to the rear of the hospital w They naubGreな133® Hiny of the patients in pyjaiias 5 i“any v/itlicut footwear ? soにc on crutches, otLcrs^./ith liiibs in plaster, heads bandaged, etc ft only tv/o of these i::on uerQ seen again e They cscc^pod froi._ custody during an artillery bor.ibardi.xnt ? and returned to the -hospital. reportt.--d the terrible ccroai.,c cf the uon« Tl-cy were evidently bayonet ted on su.ncic.y, February l̂ tl.v One Japanese xms seen uipiii^； the blood, off his bay one 1 3 Later on ? onquirics uere iiL.de as to the welfare of th^ uon 7 but tho Japanese replied that tLcy did not have cuiy prisoners of \jl.t. “ iov dしys la:er し jc.p.ne3c officer to.lci the C。0, thc-.t our r.en hcid been burial in sLell holes, m fch Japanese deed, about hc.ll a i.dlc to tLe roar of the h o s p i t a l .访ら tc^cl killed and believed dec.cl us こ result cf the raid is 323.- of t;Lol. 2j0 て.ere patients. The t C . l o s t 47窝 of the ixdical pcraouncl and S5% o f the officers or: "t -J.C S Cdfl• Late on Sunday 9 February 15tl：,and on 1'crAu.y 5 F e b r u ^ y l6th 1 . a different type of japuicsc entered the liocpit.lc Tlii^ croud fcr'ibly t looted everybody of ariythin{_ of value, euch as ratchos^ fountain pens 7 j ；riii^s f cigarexte casus, trirJ-c^vS, i.:oncy- ctc. These articles T-cre never [^returned, ^bo store rcous i.erしi7rccl:ed and food carried off by the case, flie pacl: store i.hcre patients' personal belongs are stored, ras entered 一 Lclotliin^, footv/ear, etc« i,£is carricd off, T-^y even used this store r \7hicli was in tlie ccntre of the hospital, as a latrine; completely fouling ふ:/ エて：し-s c prisonor of wしr for three and a half yしar& in four caiips 011 siiiftporc island, I sau plenty of fucc slapping and hitting rritli sticks, picces of \700d end iron, but no uctual killings during the 7:liole period, 1エlost four storxc over tho three and a half years•；1-to recognition T/hat- | ever was accorded ne as representative of the Red Cross society。 Evidentiary Docai.:ent no. 3- ^plicution uas L..ade repeatedly for soi.e considGration to Red Cross personnel, but this, ras refused on each occasion.JJ STORN at I/Blbournc in the ) State of victoria this the ) (Siむned) F.C. STQ.J?T. 27tli day of September 1946 ) Before ;.:e (Signed) FLORETCS B. SUHR, J.P. Central B^ili^ick. EvidciitiLiry Docu:..cnt 5373- Aucl:l Laid, FT: z i m 12 th June 1‘A6* 厂 、 j Joseph *7ili'rud C ^ J I H scleiニ丄ly iXxd sinccrely declares as follorsj / I au ncdicLil superintundent cf the “uckl.ょd rublic Hospital, “uckland, Nev: zcalcxnd. I rccidc at Medical supcrintcnucnt «s residence cvt the : ospitul, ^.uclcl^dc Lj 01:tlx Reserves of officers Territorial ^jri.^/ IJoy-1 ĵrijy I..’:しdieじ1 corps on the ovtbi^ iz of rorld W-r II» I s posted by the Oificc to the “lemcLr。 Hospital,Singapore T cmd appointed Officer coi.itiaiidiî s r:•ここ：r-hui r..as lieutenant Colonel und エ xras holding thL.t position \Thon sinしし:pore foil to tho ；rcipanc^c, on the ISth F c b r u u y 1942. ムbout 4 ニ、:…，on the 14th February 1$42 the Japanese overran the Hospital yhicL c i c e l y Liarkしd. T/ith し̂fi crocs . ム nuiicr of patients and staff v;cru killed and wounded by explosives and bayonet “bout 200 ncrc patients ぃlid stuff vera rcrjovod under cscort by the Japanese. Tli^y vxro k ^ t in three very si•ニ 11 roo::.c v/ithcut food or v:ctcr or ..ny attention till.idelay cn the 15th I'cbruexy 1942, ^'hen tiiey rcre tcicen out in a:iall groups und bayoneted to death• During L]Ly 1942?at the request of the British li^luyc； coniand, I co;..pilcd c. full unc. detailed report cf the incidents surrounding the overrunnir也 of the “ler-andra military Hospital by the J a p a n e s e •エ iianded tLis report to Briめ..dicr stringer, , Deputy Director j/cdical services inlay a cor;i:..and • I retained a copy of this report and on •jy rclcu^e as a prisoucr of war about the 14th scptu..bcr 1945» エ h乙udedl copy of tuic report to an officer attacliod tc the ':J(ir Crii.:es investレ 5こtion ccixdsr>ion, at Ouaii^i Gaolj Singapore. Cfi\ tLe 12th juiic 1946 エ wしs BhoTJii by Dctcctive Jones un extract of ay report referred to above. Thi^ cxtrcct reads as follows j 一 ”IU6S.17 Feb, 1942o The jupu nose called ct the hospital at 3 p.i. A< , Ilipponcsc tiue. j, Tlirou^h an interpreter Lc expressed regret for the hard tine the hospital / had had r and assured i“e that tho japancso \.ero h^rd fighters but kindly ai:d thしt vre had r.otl.in^ to fc^r, T^o Japanese proverb about 、nursing the ；rounded bird tc the hunter ̂ s breast v;as quoted to us as un as^urunoej This is ；;hut I ^--ctliGred• Before lc^vin^ I.c visited purts of tlie hospital and finclly 1 was tcld that I t;l;e to rcレ-rd his visit us boiji^ tl.at of a dircct rcprcocntativc of tho japuiecc ；jjperor, cud that no higher honour could b.c puid ！ - 一 為 I idoixtify thiG c^ctrcct しs beixi£,じ true extract fro: .the report v:liich ェ Li^dc in ?/tiy 1942. LVidontiury docui丄nt ro • 5373* 2. I have been shorn a photograph by Dctective Jones and I identify it as beiiie Lieut • General Rcnya lOT^GUCHIt v:ho vms the jape nesc General Officer Coix:andiii^ referred to in the extract above. ；jid I i^ke this s o l c m declaration conscientiously believing the aiu o to be true and by virtue of the justices of the ムct 1927- Dcclcxcd at Auckland this 12th d^y ) of juiie 19461 before y.c ) (sifined) CR^VLF* (Signed) GLJDYS FOWLZR, J<r. Justice cf the peace in ai,d for the Doivdnion of ]\Teu Zealand. State: cnt tしken ljicL witnessed bj (Signed) D ふ JOW.S. petectivc ^272 ^yidentiary Document No. • INTEHNATIOFAL LOLITAHY TRIHJiMAL FOR TIC FAK IIAST. NO..1. urrrED status OF A I ^ I C A Aim OTHERS -against- ARaKI, SADAO AM) OTHERS. 工費 DHRRICE： RANALD m i M of 15 STAFFOHD STREET, EARDON, BRISBANE, in the STATU OF QJJEZNSLAM), inake oath and say as follows j- I was 12878 a m . DHW.ICK HANALD m m of the 2/10 F U J D REGIMENT, when ェ v/as taken prisoner by the Japanese at Singapore on the 15th February, 1942.ェ放as sent to Changi on the 17th February, 1942, where I reiaained for three weeks and was then sent to ihe Great v. r orld Gamp in Singapore, 2* Conditions at Changi were not good and food was fairly short• The Japanese did not interfere with us during these three weeks a I went to Great v/orld camp on the 22nd I/^rch., 1942 s I was working on the docks and in warehouses loading general ordnance stores including ammunition^ 3® A number of bashings occurred each day, some were severe and some were slight • One concerned Gnr # FERGUSON» a member of an Anti-Tank Hegiicent • ]'je were working amongst stores and he had taken some tins of butter• '7e were searched by guards, he was the only one on whom anything was found• He was taken to the guard house, and v/e were able to see througl the VTindows the bashing he received. They knocked him down and kicked him, and hit hira with rifles; this lasted for half an hour. He was bleeding from the eyes and mouth when he came back, but he did not suffer any peraanent injury. ( no preliminary investigation or trial was held》 4* On another occasion Gnr„ FERRAR of the 2/10 Field Regiment was caught eating a tin of milk and a Japanese najned "SE^UESTA M tied him to a tree with his hands behind him and set about him with a shovel. He was then taken to Japanese Headquarters. He had blood on his arms and legs and yas laid up for three or four days after he came back from Headquarters^ I did not actually see the bashings he received at Headquarters., (but he inforiDBd me and I verily believe that he was thrashed with a riding crop ハ and a golf stick at intervals during the night^ 5® ェ uent back to Changi on the 23rd December, 1942 f and x/as there u n t i l 1 4 Iy^rch, 19431 conditions then uere bad. Food was short and we v/ere reduced to eat hedge, grass and potato tops and anything we could get, some of the men resorted tc eating dogs and cats, (and I have actually eaten cat myself in mrch, 1943. I 碰 t to THAILAND.. (Signed) DERIK R ,嵐 I N . S-lOm HSFORE TC AT BRISBAHE, ON TIE 28th DAY OF AUGUST, 1946. (Signed) A.J. IMJSFIUD. JUDGE OF THE SUPREII： COURT OF ‘iUEITSL^ID • lyidentiary Dccuoent # 5〇6l # MX59561 Liout, Frank RALSBOTH/JJ, 2/20 Australian Uif• Battalion, beiiî : duly sworn, ^jives the following evidence a I becaLie a prisoner cf war at Singapore on 15 February \ and T7ent with working parties iiito Singapore early in i.̂ rcli 1942 with j C^pt• Gaydcn, fron the same Battalion. i On one occasion I3y party T/as caught with Tobacco in their haversacks and in their pockets and we v;ere told to report to the Japanese ho at 0UTRAI-.1 ROAD school next r^rnin^ • I took the nen doun xjq Tierc brought before Lieut • Choisawa, who asked us for evidence» V/e told him v;e liad no evidence and that the nen had sinply taken the tobacco^ H^ sentenced the whole party to receive 23 lashes each^ xvhich ?;ere to be adriinistered at once # エ was tc丄d to take the party outside the roon and エ was then called in ard told I nust watch the proceedings0 The nen V7ere brought in one at a tine and thrashed across tho back, fron tho neck down to the buttocks with ridin^ whips. When the 23 lashes had been adrdnistored the nen were しrabbed by tv/c Japanese privates, their hands T7ere_tv;itchcd 七。しで七lier vfith telephone ynr e ^liTch w^s so tir;lit that it cut into their wrists、They v/ere then taken out and tied to a fence oufside the RCi 111 tlae sun T/ith 11c hcits. During this tine a Japanese nedical officer, whose none 1 do not laiow f and Fuji cane into the roon and tossed to see ivho would do the next belting* -̂ Tlie Japanese medical officer _lost Licst of the tosses so took a iflup and went ouxside and.丄 a sued the nen across ̂ the v/M^le they were tied ud to the f ence^_, ̂ hree riding iiips had already v/iien li carae to rsy turn エ was c;±ven 2_5 strokes around the kidneys with the butt end of the whip handle^ As a result 1 suffered bruised kidneys and was confined in hospital for a couple of days, After the punishLBnt had been administered the nen were all taken away and put into/refriteration van which was entirely without ventilation, still with their hands tied behind their backs© They were very crowded inside, and x was told tc stand to attention outside and keep yiard on penalty that if any m n ^ct cut エ would be held responsible I remined there for about half an hour and then decided that if soije- tliin^ was net done the men would eventually die from suffocation, so I went and saw the interpreter about the m t t e r # エ订as given a slap in the face and was told that he would try and do sonetliinc when the officer went out for lunch• Tho officer went out in about one hour's tine, and the interpreter came down and told ne I could open the door a foot. By this tine four men had fainted and the floor of the car was just a sea of sweat• All the nen were in fairly bad condition. Later in the afternoon, l^jcr schnider carae down and the door was kept open fron then on. ko went down and saw the Japanese officer and v/e nere then sent back tc canip # Next day ne v:ero all forced to work irrespective of what injuries v/o were suffering fron。 On the fcllowin^day we were able to しet a spell for nest of the troops # Evidentiary Dccunent jl 5061. 2. •‘ On one occasicn ェ saw a nan standing outside the Japanese IIQ after having been very badly a s s a u l t e d .形 had been put into a bath cf bciliニ‘. v;c.tcr, brcu^jht out ai.d tlirashcd, then ぶut into the bath a^ain, ana so on. ho badly burnt and subsequently lost a lot of skin. H。 was an Australian and a neonber of 2/10 pd. but I do net know his none, ^ 。n another cccafiion a your^j Chinese boy about 13 or 14 years of 0{：0 cane to し;ivc us some _brea3T i'ren a oasicox ae was carryin/^^ He came over tc no where I was standing a little apart from the other nen, and offered ine the breads Hov;ever, as we had been told that if we accepted anything frcn the Chinese, thoy would be thrashed, j Tpvod hin ayay 0 A Japanese ^uard f who v/as a ineraber of ̂ what we called ,The .Black Guards" because cf the piece of black nettin 0 they aluayc were across their eyes, caLic across and hijt̂ the bey ̂ oMiid_the head with a rifle butt. He then pifi]£gd hin up and waited until a truck uas coning alcn^ the read at a ^ decezat si)eed and then threw nlni under the idieeis. nuie trucic passed riA'ht^ over hin and he lay in *che s u r f e r . 1 thxijk he was killed because when 'we caiie out again at ni^ht he iras still ^here 0 / ！Taken and sworn before ne at SYDKEf [Signed.) U . 腦 S F I E L D , ；crx;issicner# (SiGned) F . R/JSBOTHAI!. Hyidentiary Docuiuont imo # / ぐ//)B r i-! IN TIE MATTER OF CTAP遍SE 彌 CRIMES AT RIVER YiJiEY 遞 I仏VELOCK ROM) CaJ'IPS, SBTG^OHE. F F I D ix V I T, Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES PHILLIP HEL‘TH, D.S.O., Royal jjrtillory ‘with perLianent hone address at AHDKOHE COTTAGE f AHBSOPE ROAD, PAEKSTOHE, DORSET, MAKE OATH and say as follows：- 1. エ was captured in SINGAPORE on 15 February 1942 and was thereafter confined in] the following; prisoner .of war canps during the periods stated：?- CHANGI /Hii T 7SL0Cir H0.J) and ( R I 7 L R TiJLLEY V. CAlvIPS CHANGI KRANJI HOSPIT•丄 From 18 February 1942 1 6 丄 W 1942 25 December 1942 4 Juno 1945 Until 15 卿1942 24 December 1942J 3 June 1945 till the cessation of hostilities. 2, I arrived at H/lVELOCIv RÔ -J) CAICP with a "Labour“ Battalion on l6 卿 1 9 4 2 # in July 1942 エ became senior British Officer there, talcing over from Colonel BRIDGE, R.AiOiC* E^rly in August I took over in addition RIVER VALLEY Ĉ Jv̂ P from Colonel KJI. PRESTON of the Indian fjrLiy who returned to CHANGI on account of sickness, [3* RIVER VALLEY and HAYELOCK EOiJD Canips were only about 紅00 yards apart being separated by a s m l l streaia and barbed wire fences. I remained senior ^British officer of both canps till they were closed on 24 December, じnd, during the whole- of that period, the two canps were run as a single unit by the Japanese, when I first went to Hi'^VELOCK road C如P the Japanese Conmandant of both canps was Lieutenant FXIEO'iDA. He uas succeeded about septonb^r 19h2 by Lieutenant ICOTAITI,, When Lieut. FUiriJ)^ left,his Adjutant 7 Lieutenant OKUYiJ'&fVrent v/ith h m 0 After their departure Lieut enant 組 was assisted by Lieutenant FUKUDA as Officer in charge of the Guards• On 29 July 1942 about llj.15 hours a Japanese soldier caî e to me in "Ht.VELOCK ROxJ) C^ip with orders that all prisoners of v;or in the canip were to parade at once and march under his direction. This was done and Le con- ducted the party to a field outside RIVEH VALLSTi CLJP^} There エ got permission fron a Japanese serjeant to allow cooks and prisoners working on repairs to Japanese v/ag^ons in caiip to disulss. This left on parade all officers, clerks, canp-employed. sick and nen without boots and all those not ordered to uork outside the canp that afternoon by the Japanese Guards. YJO were joined by a similar parade frora RIVER VALLEY Carp and formed into a square. Lieutenant FUKx'JDA and liis interpreter arrived and the latter read out ^instructions" issued by the former; I attach hereto copy of Evidentiary Document y 2 S ‘ these "instructions", xaarlced "EXHIBIT しノ (S* The other ranks uere then niarched av;ayjby Japanese N.C.O's and, as soon as the officers v;ere disniissed,广I followed them iccompanied by _ j o r C.H.D. FXLD, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light infantry. Lieutenant FUKi'J)ム unsuccessfully tried to persuade ice not to do so. 6耱 ^ The prisoners (strength about 400) had been collected on an open space with a very uneven stony surface and were being forced by the Japanese with blows and shouts to run round in a large circle. I'ost of the nen v;ere sick or had bare feet owing to the shortage of boots;j others were clerks, warrant officers, etc. yho were employed in the C^u^p, (7. goon after ェ had arrived on the scene Lieutenant FUK/JDA also appeared, I iLiuediately protested tc hiin but he took no notice•エ also sent for a doctor to weed out tlie sick. T;: e doubling about went on for about thirty-five rainutes and then Lieutenant FUICJ)A addressed the men in a lor^; speoch the gist of which was that they were " s l a c k e r s I n the course of this speech he also stated »l have proved to you that you can dance, in bare feet f therefore you can work in bare fqet / 8, previous to this incident we had had no warning that Lieutenant rDK/'JDA was dissatisfied with the prisoners J work or the nuribers provided for working parties• Nor had any effort been Liade to find out the reason for any of the individual roen being in camp or whether they were guilty of laziness or any other offence. Neither had we any subsequent repercussions or explanation of it. l./y personal view is that Lieutenant FII^JDil v/ished to discourage dernnds T/h'ich Lieutenant Colonel PHSSTON • had been uakinじ regarding the necessity for boot repairing facilities• :(一.，，.« .. . ‘-" ••' • ‘ .... . _ • ‘ • * ： • •“ . -』.\：-、--.レ » ‘ V •‘ ‘ ‘ '•' ‘ accorii^odatioii was very t>ad, 201 men being accoixiodated in each hut of 120 feet by 18 feet. Tl-e huts were each of two floors and the only places a iiian could stand upright were in the • gangway running down the iniddle or on the extroae ed^© of the upper floor• Ttiore v/ere no a^paratef huts fdir recr^atiAii or any other purposes に ： . . . - : - • 、 ： . - . パ て . : ； / a:. .：ハ：.、-.:、"..’.•-:•、.. .... :：•- :..-」.：ン..re..:..：.: 10. For several months after I went to HA.7EL0CK ROAD CJJ.HF no arrangements for repair or replacer^nt of boots and clothing, v/hich wore out very rapidly under the v/crking conditions, existed in either C£mp^ 11• working conditions were very severe• Frequently I received reports of prisoners Who had been struck by their guards, 12 • As in other Japanese C u p s food was insufficient • 13• Medical stores were in short supply during all the tine エ was Senior British Officer in these canps; there was 110 adequate hospital 27idontiary gpcynient 3. accoixiodation or equipnent, no beds were provided and the hospital consisted of the norrial at tap hut described above, qiie worst cases were taken to CHAI了GI Cしニp Hospital but transport was not rocularly provided ovon for t h e r e S厂0E7 by the aforesaid CFL'xRLES PHILLIP HEi.TH at 6 spring Gardens in the City of rest- minster this Eiclith day of UTUAHY, 19l|.6 ) ( S i y a e d ) 脇 I H . Before rae, (Signed) Captain， KELLY, Lec^l Staff, 卫/p•丄itary Departnent t Office of The judce Advocate General, L0M)QN, S•可ふ I certify that this is a true copy of the original affidavit. (Signed) A.M. BELL-I\&CDONi'JLD • Le^al staff 4 Office of the jud£,e Advocate General. r lyidentiary Docuaent 1*0, ̂ OSO. I«' T .I.9 Jap. 17105. IFSTBUCTIOFS TO LAZY PIHSOEERg OF :.L+.H. X regret that I roust fiive you sorje instructions, but these 1. instructions are ^ivcn fron the spiritual training. Therefore, I nmst c i v e B^t, at the same tine, work done by the diligent nen.. 2. you have lived uith us affjBStioiiato friendsg point of viei7 cf civin^ you sone then firnly。 I oast express appreciation of the good for some ;.iontlis j therefore we have becone 3t 176 have traatod you as our friends, in the spirit of HQishidow - the traditional j onerous spirit of the japcoie^e “rr;:y - evtr since we como here 9 because *ce cro soldiers, ar.d you arc soldicrby and therefore we should understand oacii other. But you have responded to this, dislionesty a our ^ E u s h i d o b y deception and S^ch conduct is not pernitted by wgushidc' not be perniitted by jjiolish standards, 一 and presuiaably would 6. And you oust be reinindad that your intiiate and diligent friends are overi:orkiii£, tc mlze up for your idle conduct. 1 % You should riot be able to thiiJc of this without feeling very nuch ashamed• such sliane should be unendurable^ 8. T?orlc should bo pleasant and chcorful, but those who uill not work imist be idle nen by nature, or blockheads who heve no conscience as hurxin beings. As soldierc, you oust liave understood these things, therefore, you ou^ht to think how to do your best before thinking of anything else. The history cf huî aii beings i.es taught us thrit it is always possible to v;crk t ,whatever tlie conditions oay bc» To say that you luve no shirts and no shoes is an iu取roper excuse, 10, Work fron today• Do not r;ait until toLiDrrc;/. you nxist bear the above-aentioned instructions firmly in iiind. Ctf course shall do our best to ixie better your conditions^ Clfeoso who ars idle 耵1丄1 be severely punished as fron tonorrow. please understand this feet, 26th July, 2602 (1942) 蘭T? E . FUIL'DA) (x) (sm:p). Evidentiary Document iJo, ニノ， • This is tho inhibit referred to in the Affidavit of Lieutenant Colonel CEARLIS PHILLIP HJi^TH, D.S.O., R.A•，S'.'ORT" before ne at 6 Spring Gardens in the city of T . r :estr.iinster this eighth day of January (Signed) R.D^L. KELLY, Captain, Legal staff• T,"ilitary Department, Office of the J*A.C、 London, s.W.1. evidentiary Dccurxarfc 作 _5ェ3。攀 SUM IziHY" OF IiX JO:Hi‘TION 2L !j\p. 2586617 sgt. GoY^P. PICOSZL Royal CcrpG of Signals having boer A duly sworn states：- I aci 30 years of age, of British Nationality,；born at Lcndcn, j/y perixinent hone is (NIL). I an at present living at pearl's Hill priscai, Singapore yhere I am acting as a warder• LThe follouing is an account of ray experiences in The I过litary Gaol in pearls Hill prison, Singapore！ uhere ェ was incarcerated fron August 1943 until August ェ was locked up in coll19 d Block • There v/ore 13 other soldiers there when ェ arrived and uhen ェ saw then ェ realised that this uas indeed hell on earth• ^hey v/ere covered in septic scabies, v^re suffering fron bcri-beri and in nany casos dysentery, ^yerj^one was hopelessly undernourished and terribly thin, the average weight being about 7 stone. The food was totally inadequate - three raeals a day consistin^ in all cf sone 8 ozg # cf rice with ！ a little soup and cn occasional fish For five Eionths r;o all but starved tc death and ェ personally r;ent do〜vn fron 12 stone tc 6 stone 2 lbs# by which time I was very sick vith scabies and beri-beri 0 Cn asking or rather begging for rjedicine ェ was told to hurry up and die as there ras no treatment for such as ェ•； m seven ncnths I had been in solitary confinenexit as I v/as still an untried prisoner and ray state of nind was such that ェ just wanted to dio. ^ Everyone lived in constant fcar cf the guards as severe boatings v;ere the punishment for the slightest offencc. The following arc soue of the worst atrocities which I witnossed•- in ijproh or April 1944 there uas in prison jvith nc an oldJaredc priest fron i/^lacca. j-ic v/as suffering fro；, severe scabies ai^d—one—— night when ho was LiooaiDg in his coll thu 厶uurd vrcnt. in-C.nd kicked and boat h i r u " " " " t h e aapo nj^jj^ T^c guard じho uuracred hr.： is hir^elf nov; a prisoner in the gaclしnd! I have identified hin as YAMiTISHI。 一 ^cJ^k ( C h i n e s e cjid nirasicin&jhave been carricd out on strctchcrs to be beheaded, toe sick i^ik- or even crawle Young Chinese, too young to die, have left for exocuticn/shoutirig for victory fcr tho Allies and shov:ing us the u^y to die for Kiiife ̂ nd Country• I 3» The E3cst pathctic sight ujas seven rarasians, soi.ie of then rjy friends in pccicctirie, r/hosc only crinc was thut they hud t^Jccn nev;s into Chcingi c^np v;hich was ccn.ion practico in Singapore. For this they woro condemcd tc death after prordses frcn the japs that they would be excused if they boccmo good citizens, Tlicy v;ore beheaded on 26 Nov. '43. n I^identiury Document • j 4* '.;hon Hatfield was condcnned tc die' he was kept in an enpty coll for six days prior tc his execution, lie ivas in u very bad state and ivas handcuffed and T7ii;hcut bodcling 0 H© had a horror of beheading and tho guards never lost cji eppしrtunii:y of tomenting bin: uith j renindors cf what v;as tc conec. Plis nental anguish m s t have boon alnost unbeCiTable^ Fror. a l6 stcne rxm he ĥ .d bee one a 7 stone ;vrecK and was executed on 6 5o iai Indian soldier was kicked in the back by a guard and corjpletcly crippled. Ho could net walk しnd eventually dicd^ Ti'î guard ylic nurdored hiri is hinsolf now a prisoner in the gしol and I have identified hin as NIHAR^ HIDEO. ((>.A Chinese nan v;as driven rnd by constant beatings and cvontually killed hix.iself by beshinghis head against tlie wall of his cell,； The guard uhc v/as responsible, for this nan's death is hiiiself now a prisoner in the gacl cjid エ have identified hin as H : T i“ /7» iili English P0'7 naiaed Brown of the Loyal Eogiosnt was driven nad by constant beating and general illtrcatiiient/. The guard responsible for tliis is himself no;; a prisoner in th« gaol and I hし.ve identi- ェled him as 3VIE1T0# H^ was also in charge of the issue of rations . and nadc sure that the British and “ustralian ps07； uere alrxst starved to death• ！8. t^o Australians died of starvation and general illtreatnent in July 1 9 4 3 T h e nan vho is partially responsible for their death is M0RIM0T0 who is ncu a priscnor in tho gaol. 9» I have pcrsonclly been ill treated by the follcv/in^; guards vho are nou prisoners in tho gaol and t/hc I have identified:- (a) HIEDA - Knocked no unconscious throe tines with his sword butt and nade l-o crcavl one nil© on ny hands and kixeos iftien I フas sick v;ith dysentery and nalaria and could not He did this just for the pleasure cf seeing r:jy sores cut and bleeding. (b) HXRATA - "hen I xms unable to ralk and was crawling along ho kicked no in tho facc be cause エ ttcis not going fast enoughs It has loft c scar on ny fcreLecdt ^c; SATO - Took particular delight in torturing by naking ne crawl about and beating no when I uas to sick to nove. 10• The fcllcv/ing guards also delighted in illtro^tiiig priscncrs• Thoy are all in gacl and have been identified by ne：- (a) TSUKUD“，Eoiji - rcduced already neagro rations こ;nd kicked sick prisoners«. (b) EOQ.'i. - general illtrcc.t: icnto nriclont irxy Docuixnt 11 J130. 3. (c) ONISHI - particularly fend of beating English soldiers. He kept ne on about 4 ozs. cf rice cjid v:ator fcr 14 days bocause I rould not kiss his shoos, (d) SilTO - starving and boating (e) KOB^Y“SHI - particularly fend of hurting officers. (f) IUT0UI - boat up every bodム H^ boat a British soldier nailed Larson and broke tve of his ribs。 pcirticulcirly fond of kicking prisoners until they v;ere unconscious• (g) YiJ.!/iSKITA 一 a particularly vicious type uho specialised in beating up sick prisoners, He \ias in charge of the kitchen fcr a tirぬ r;hcn he indc sure we were given half rations and sour ricc until everybody was sick 3 T^^n he cone round tell- ing us tc hurry up and die, helping us alcng v;ith kicks and blov;s # (h) SATO - general illtrcatnont c (i) CKIMIHA - general illtroatucnt. (j) K-CHIYix 一 general illtreatncnt« (k) SHIMDI - general illtreatnont • After D^c. things began to ^ot a lot better. The food increased end everyone v:ho could york iras allowed tc do so, of course if you T?oro sick you T7GTO still starved, the jap nothod being no work, no focd» After about six weoks things began to drop off again and beatings once naro bocane the order of the day. it ras futile to ccnplain fcr thero ras nobody to com- plain tG ^ Eventually j i^ns sent to Cl'.-ngi po 1 .； Hospital v;hen the guards thought I was p。st saving. This was one cf their uost farjous jokes。 They r/ould keep soldiers in their cells て；1th no nodical trcatiiont and just before they died send thexa tc chen^i. m this T7ay the responsibility for the deaths did not lie uitli tho prison authorities. W statement can be corroborated by Sfct. Y.J^P, FL.SC. Sfetc M0Rai f 2 Loyals BdTo MOON,155 Fd. Regt. CSM。BLEE, 2/26 腕t。“IF. (Signed) G^V. FICOSZI, Sgt, Sv:orn before no (Signed) ：-.Go Lt, Colo 0 # C # I Jo. 7 .'̂ r Crincs JTxV est igat ion Tcaii e This 8th day cf January 1%ら Detailed tc exauino tlie above by C in Ct allied Fcrccs SEA. In tlie Iiitsrna onal ：.jLlitar：̂ rricMnal for t、3 7e.r 2ast. i^idenuiar^- Doc-JL-ier/: ,'-j423 "The United States of America ancl Qtliers Saiao and Others Affidavit エ 3 ？.odericl: G-ralxa.1 "."ells cf Tai:ura in the State of Ticuoria formerly 7：：14024 Lieutenant R # J 0 '."Jells of Gtii Division Signals malce oath and say;- エ oecaae a prisoner cf \iar at 0:1lj Zobruar;r 1942* I subsequen-!:!：- -veivi： -co Sandal^n an'l IZacliin^ in Borneo and -.;as sent i'ro:1 liicliing on 3 Ilarclx 1^44 to Crj.ira:；! ?.oai Gaol to cerve a sentence of 12 years 1 peiial servitude -.i-ンニ ]icrd labour 0:1.ie oy a Japanese cour*!;-..iartic:.l,エ arrivei at Roacl Gaol on lltli I^rcli 1944 aiad re :.iain3:l•じ•iere until 3rd Â .iril 1545 ブ I v;as re-.iovsd to Clian^i Hospital• 2. I sai; ニ]any instances of r^altreai;aenof at Outraia Road Gaol, ^n ^n：lislivgan naaed^?ailey ロ a s こ - s i c l : . tes-icles •" : ere ajout six inches 1:1 aia^ieter aue to e::cescive vjater aauoed beri oeri, "Vliilst in taij concli-jion, a こiiaixl stî ic：: Ui. : f i:icl:e1；iin 0:1 Mxe head t^en in -;；13 testicles. lie corr^iiiuea to l:ic::liiニ uni;il Cradle：- "became uncoニsci ニ : • ' て i ' 3 ' ユ about four .lont^is later, 'riie most ..is•ュal for：: of pu^isli “as face and re Auction y: rati ソニ s。 in •ンic ̂ ardon :..3re beaten and ::aade to stand in tlie biasing cun for up to an hour an.", a half for such •じ:linこs ac tr^in。tj eat gresn 1glv3s fro a the pj.ant5. 3- '^/eivone . : £3 e::tra:i3l7 v;sc：: cnu aiclc fro 1 ::]alnutri-;ion. ：ニマen to \:allc \;as an ab^olu^e effort f 1st alone wOr：:. T'le food conこi stei oi" five or si:: ounces of rice per cla：- at jae noot, but for o;ie ^oriod of seven uontas e liacl nccliin^ "b•丄t a soup ： - a u e b-j tapioca flour in T;a-J3r anil a.，,diii_ ps-ooer. Sie cole bsddiiv., issued ccn3isv.sd of a woolen block to res': lioa'i on, t:;o boards abDU'j si:: inches wiie, one inch :lee：- an\ si:: fee t lo-o 七0 lis on a::d tuo very 'iliin uorn out blaialwOts. Tlie prison \;as vsr.iin infested. ぶ丁iden'i:iary Dociment ,•り423 Pa^s 2 5 . CTIiere were practically no raedical sullies and o::l：- raedical trsatiaent •；7as thau provided "by a nedical or-erl：7 occasi zall：" ca.ie around• • o, Zie v-orl: v:as vsry aonotonous• 7or :;ine noxrンユs ,.e. -：/ere picl:in 0 heap, a con^loneration of lierap fro:i T;orl:sIiopG # ::e were mad3 *bo picl: oiio tlireafls i::： order tliat could be ::oacls into rou^li rope • 7e Iiad to sit cross-le.^ed in an a tap roofed shed with, no v/ailG and a lealcin^; roof froi.i •じo ni^At • '3 had to v;orlc in a"bcOi;vI:e silence ani v-sre forbidden to look airr.^iare o'':iier than dirsc to t'13 front • '7e ;sre bei::^ con-tinonsly :;atc:i8cL a ^uard wliiie •ニe -.lorhzê . LT insu::."icierit -;orl: co^-latail at tlie end of -'jlie af-J3rnoon \；6 lost appro::!:.latel：" half our evening meal• 3\:orn at :Z3senden in the State of Victoria tliis tlie 1st daj of October t 194^ Before ne, ノ ) / s / R . Or. '.Tells, Lieut. R of Q Jolm ICJTS Erident iary Docu ment 作 5395 • 1, perirod Jjistralia was talc en 2. escaped cn 17 ilarch, with an Australian C o r p o r a l . W e •rossed the 3fcaits of Johore in a small prou and as we approa書bed a small fishing village, our immediate destination, were _captured by Tai'ails and ialays» who handed us —尸t» to thf? ^ i •!! 6th April 19h2^ I spent 4 aays with the Kempei Tai f who tortured me by burning cigarettes on_my chest and hands and by ‘ beating me on the head with bamboos, to force a confession that ェ was a spy. 3 • I was transferred to Curran camp, which was the 3ikh Guard cnmp for Changi a M held there until 17th April when I was sent back to the ICempei Tai. I was hid there until 2l\.ih April, during which time I マas asked to sign a statement, which I refused, ^fter four days of beating, burning with cigarettes and elcctrical shocks^ which on one occasion knocked me un- conscious, I was handed a statement in Japaese v;ith no English translation, r/hich I was #rdercd to sign under threes of further torture. I asked for a translation of the document 9 which was refused and eventually I signed he Japanese document. I \ias then sent to Outram Road ga參1 on 24th April. 4 • On 18th I,fey 1ヲ42 I was brought for trial before a Japanese Court» Martial in Singapore, '̂J.1 the proceedings were in Japanese and there was no translation. T eventually learned that I had received two yors solitary con- f inement.ェフas then removed b Outrain Road gaol m wnich gaol I remained until 18th Llay 1 贴 • 5» The cells in Oirbam Road v/ere 6 ft. by 10 ft*, normally one man per cell. Later two or three men were put into each cell• In the cell were three beards to serve as a bed, together with a hard wooden pillow•• There :;as a latrine bucket, which was normally cleared tv. r ice a week« There was one blanket. During the tv/o years I was in the gaol, approximately 2,400 military and non-Japamese personnel passed through the gaol. Of those 110 were military,150 British and IXirasian. The remainder were Chinese, ！挺lays, and Taj.7iil3. Of those, approximately 1,000 people died in all[ During the same period 3,000 Japanese passed through the gaol, of whom only one died. The most the gaol held at any one period of time, of non-Japanese personnel f uas 230. 00 The conditions in Outram Hoad T/erc appalling. The rat ion con- sistcid of three meals per day, in all 6 oz. of rice and pints of watery soup. There v/as no Japanese doctor in the prison camp and the one English doctor,a prisoner for a short "time in the camp, was given no facilities ;7ith ̂ ;hich to deal with INTZRI^TIQKJaL MILITiiRY THIBUI-1AL FOR THE FAH TJiST llo.1. U M T H ) STiJIS 書F ぶERICA and or3. -against 一 ,J^CI, Sadao and or 5. Vance DSAN, residing at 85 Minora R#ad, Dalkeith, 7estern , i n the Australian ?>Iilitary Forces mal:e oath and say as follows;- I was a Lieutenant in the 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion, prisoner on 15 February 1942 at Singapore. .•I.E. and ェ was taken to selarang Prisoner of マ ar Camp» from which I F p g c 2 . the sick. He was not even allowed to visit then. The gaol was 250 yards away fron Alexandra Hospital,the main hospital of Singapore, but no prisoner was ever sent there, except for one C h i n e s e w h o t r i e d to c o m i t suicide b e f o r e t r i a l . H e w a s t a k e n to tho Hospital where his head was sewn up and brought back to the gaol for trial. T h e r e w o r e n o s h o w e r s , n o t o w e l s , n o t o i l e t articles of any nature. In order to wash ourselves we were s o m e t i m e s g i v e n a b u c k e t of w a t e r to t h r o w over o u r s e l v e s . F o r the f i r s t six w e e k s I n e v e r l e f t ry c e l l a n d n e v e r h a d a w a s h , When I first arrived in the gaol it was like bedlun. People were scresning all day from pain fron their wounds and their beatings» The gaol Cormandant used to cone and watch u s , n a k e n o c o m e n t and l e a v e . The g u a r d s b o t h K o r e a n and Japanese, had complete control over the prisoners. I saw many- prisoners beaten and I saw many people die. Examples are as follow:- On the 1 0 t h of M a y , 1 9 4 3 , 4 C h i n e s e a r r i v e d in the p r i s o n . T h e y were handcuffed and chained dcrwn in their c e l l . T h e y were in good p h y s i c a l c o n d i t i o n . They w e r e dead i n six w e e k s of m a l - n u t r i t i o n and b e a t i n g s .エ saw then often beaten by sticks and sword scabbards • D a v i e s , an E n g l i s h n a n , v e r y b i g l y b u i l t , a r r i v e d at a p p r o x i m a t e l y the sane tine as I did in April,1942» He contracted Beri Beri and by August his testicles were 2 feet in dianeten. His only ^method of" walking was to carry then in front of hin. The Japanese used to bring their friends in to watch hin and never did anything to help hin, nor permit others to help him, Davies died in October in great agony. He had been beaten many tines and he . died covered in his own excreta and urine. For five days before his death he had been unable to leave his cell and we were not allowed to help, C . W , Barter died on the 13th February, 1943, as a result of beating, Shortly before he died, he was very weak, suffering from ？eri Beri and Dysentery and on the 12th February, the guard c a m e into h i s cell and f o r c e d h i m to h i s f e e t to c a r r y h i s latrine b u c k e t out to e m p t y i t . Lt this tine B a r t e r w a s m e r e l y s k i n and bone. He was unable to lift the bucket and tried to drag it along the ground. He was unable to do this however and fell down. The guard beat hin and kicked hin for hearly five minutes. The next morning he was dead• Allen, an Australian, died on the 10th July., 1943. After his death, without the knowledge of the Japanese authorities, his body was weighed by our own medical people in Changi. The w e i g h t w a s l b s , a p p r o x i m a t e l y v/hat the b o n e s , of t h e m s e l v e s , would weigh. For the fortnight before his death, he was not able to leave his c c l l , o r even to move about. Nevertheless, the guards put rice in a corner of the cell,which /.lien wes not able to reach I asked nany tines to bo allowed, to feed him "out the various guards refused, I was ordered to dross him after his death and when I saw hin he was literally bene covered in scales as a result of dry Beri Eeri. He was covered in filth. Hatfield， an Australian Sergeant, was caught in Singapore in May, 1943. He spent three months with the Keupei Tai and was then brought into the gaol in August. He was tried in November,194-3, and sentenced to be executed as a spy, I had some small knowledge of Japanese and I was taken to Hatfield on tho 4th December, 1943, who asked me to arrange for hin to nake a will and for a Priest. Both these requests were refused by the gaol Commandant. Hatfield was taken away from the gaol on the 6th of December, and the Guard who executed hin told ne later that he had had the pleasure of executing Hatfield in a field &t 3"okit Tiaah. Mrs. Nixon, the only E-urasion vronan I saw at Outrara Road came in January, 1944, She had been an internee at Changi. She was brought in by the Kempei Tai and confined, in the sane circtimstances as ourselves, without any privacy. She was still there when I left in May, 1944, in solitary confinement, Father Massino snd another Eurasian Priest were brought into the gaol in 1943 and had both been tortured previously by the Iiempei Tai. They died of disease in the g a o l . M a s s i n o was regularly beaten by the guards when they saw him on his knees praying. Hugh Frascr. the Colonial Secretary, Malaya , arrived with a party at the end of 1943, He had been.with the Kenpei Tai some four months prior to his arrival. He was beaten by the guards regularly and- died, p.fter エleft. There was an Englislmsn, who in M a y , 1 9 4 3 , developed a form of scabies as the result of which, the vvtiole cf the area at the back of his body from the waist to knees, beccme an open sore, which dripped puss * He w a s quite unablo to sit down or lie d o w n for three months, end we.s given no treatment, no bandages or rags to wipe the natter corning fron the wound. Fortunately eventually, it dried by itself* Two Chinese women were brought into the gaol on the 26th July, 19^3) and were held in the sane circumstances end conditions as the nen. One woman was in an advanced stage of pregnancy.. She was moved only a few days prior to the birth of her child, A Chinese boy, aged 12, csme into the gaol with his mother. She was put into one cell and he in another» He died of Beri Beri in about nine weeks. I carried his body when he was dead. It was all puffed out and his head was so swollen that the features were Page 4 . not obviously recognisr.Dle as huncn. A rmr.ber of people went mad "under these conditions, The Japanese method of treatment was to put three or four more people into the cell to look after the lunatic。 In nest c&ses the nr.d nan died because he refused to eat, On several occasions he injured his companions. Ma.jor Smith who arrived at the end of November, 194-3? had had his iaw broken by the Kenpei Tai during interrogation It was exceedingly difficult for him to e a t H e was refused troatrnont in the prison, the Japanese anstver being if he had told the truth he would not have had his jaw broken. At tho ond of 194-3, the Prison authorities sent sone of the worst sick away fron Outran Road to Changi Hospital, In almost every case the ncn sent wei-3 about to die, and the Doctors in the Hospital told me th?t these sick nen were impossible to save and:df, apper.rcd. that the Japanese wore sonding them so that the official death rate in Outran Eoa<\ would appear to be less than it was in fsct. エ hrd a big cyst on ny right hip in September, 194-3} frcm which I suffered for nearly a month. Moreover, my side was enormously sv/ollc-n and I sskco tho guard to slico the top of it off, which he did with his svrard and then drained the puss. This I took as a kindly act. There was a dispensary in the gaol and a Jspr.nese orderly with a large number of drugs and instruncnts, who refused to treat ne, In August,1942, two Japanese esceped from their portion of the gaol and as a punishment for three weeks all the prisoners had to sit to attention, that is on their heels and cross legged, fron 7 in the norning till 9.30 at night t The daily ration was 3 ounces of rice, a snail bowl of water and a piece of rock salt c I had one prir of shorts during the whole period A p r i l , 1 9 4 2 , to SeptGnber,1943* This was the case with many of u s . In SopteDbor,1943， v/e were issued with one Japanese shirt and a pair of shorts, which had cone fron diseased Japanese sick. These garments were washed once a month end owing to their refusal to allow us to rronb.r or nark the garments, no prisoner normally ever rccGivcd his c\m garment back. In view of the diseased nature cf nost of the prisoners. mider this system it was inpossiblt for anyone to remain healthy. In a short tine everyone had scabies It is difficult to describe the cells in which we lived. Tl'ero was blood end puss steins on the wall, where people had wiped the hends they had used to dry their wounds. Pilet of scaly skin lay in the corner s. There were bed bugs in the boards of the bed. We were never shaved and had to cut our .nailsノ t;y scrcping then on "tee concrete floors. All the gucrds were masks when they were on duty in our block of cells. They never touched anything in our cells with their hands, only 'with their swords or with gloves. Our cells were 'cleaned to ny k n o w l e d g e o n l y twice in the two years» On the other hand the block in which the Japanese prisoners were housed was beautifully clean 0 Every gusrd was a law unto himself and one evening a guard would beat v.s for not being asleep ； the next on duty would beat us for being ssleep。 There ware working parties in the gaol which began in October.1942, when sone of us went out cleaning drains. By May, 194-3, other prrties had been formed。 It was inpossible to keep notes or a diary since cclls were searched daily. Outran Road gaol was the Central Gaol for the Japanese Southern Arny, so thct when a cell v/as enpty we knew either the nan had died or had been executed, or was about to be executed, VShfin I first arrived in the gcol I saw in the open buildings which were around, six fully stocked with cases of tinned nilk. I estimate there were between 20 and 30 thousand coses. We ^ot a little _for_the first, nonth; after thp.t we had gilk twice on ^Rc Enpcrcf' s t)irtfig^y m 1942 a n a - " X f e i a rnTTR w a s use卢 thp . T a p m p c o fr-.y -hhoneo-] vpg in the g g o i and as presents to visitors» It was not distributed to other' unixs. There was enough nilk in the gaol to supply every prisoner wit. nilk until the end of the war, with a good deal to spare,, and Vitanin B w&s of course our greatest need. ,0n one occasion a neriber_of_tlie Roynl family— walked thrQ33Lgii_iJnFi g a m thft oT , He-naver looked Into the cclls, ho i.iorcly walked into the passage. On several occasions high ranking officers paid visits to the gscl• They must have seen sone of the prisoners e.t their work or carrying their latri buckets to be onpモicd 0 Prior to such visits, the cell steps would be scrubbed with soap» Soap was never issued to the prisoners for the purpose of washing their bodies. On the 18th of Ifey, 1944, I left Outran Road gaol and went back to Changi gaol and was put in the tower. I was asked to sign a non-escspe form which I did eventually under compulsion. I was then released and became an interpreter, going to Bukit Panjang with 379 officers and nen, to dig Japanese fortifications, The A-ustralian Ccnp Conmandant protested to the Japanese Sergeant in charge cf the Canp, and to high inspecting officers who visited, as to the nature of the work, but to no avail In June, -1945, an Australian Private Wilson, was killed in a fall of earth owing to insufficient precautions being taken, during the tunnelling of the hole• Page 6. The work parties began at 8 a«m« and marched four or five miles each morning. For the m.st part, men had 110 boots. Some used home-made rubber shoes cr clogs, others had bare feet. Officers wero not permitted to lesre the camp, nor allowed to go uith the working parties, which normily returned at 6.30 p.m. Towards . June 1945? tho men began to return from work parties at 10 p*m« in the evening, after working 20 to 30 ft. into the side of a hill by candlelight, and not having eaten sincc midday• They often came back iret through. No lights were allowed in the camp and the hours ロere so irresular that it v;as often very difficult to provide a hot meal at night• Clothing ras very short in the camp and in about July 1945, 5。naj^rs of Hhincse ̂ uomen' s bloomers • ere issued tn t.ĥ g-r^t ？mn.q̂ mfint of the villagers as oomc of the men talked through the streets in them. "7c. had -very little medical stores in the camp and although 200 yards away v;as a medical stores distribution centre, v;e v/ere unable to obtain any nevertheless. A good deal of beating up by the Guards took placc. One order that all men had to salute sentries, provided ample excuse for many beatings. The ration for working men was 10 oz. of rice daily, 3 02. of vegetables and occasionally tinned food, uhich appeared to be Red Gross supplies, since I sau Red Gross parcels in the stores. The rat ion for a sick man was about 3〇 porccnt less. This affected the cam-p basic ration, as about 50 percent of the camp uere sick. S770RF in Tokyo this the ) day of ) Noveanbcr ) Before me, (F.E. M O S T ™ ) Major, Legal Staff• ハ ー ノ 办 Evidentiary Document Nc.ブぺ97• ^NATIONAL MILITALY TRIBUNAL IHE FAI, EAST. N O . 1 , UNITED STATES OF AIvIERICA AND OTHERS against AEAKI,. S^dajD and others, I, Alexander Gordon WEYNTON of Castlemaine, in the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, Lieutenant in the Australia Military Forces make oath and say as follows 1 . On 8th March, IS44, I was shipped from Kuching to Singapore to serve a sentence of 10 ；years imprisonment imposed c me by a Japanese Court on 29th February, 194-4-. Nineteen other prisoners who had been sentenced to imprisonment by the same Court accompanied me, 2. On 11th March, 194-4, we were taken to Outram Road Gaol, We were each given a shirt and a pair of shorts. Our own clothir was taken from us. Each of us was given a blanket, three wooder boards 6 feet long x 3 inches wide and a block of wood 1 foot long by 4 inches square; this block was slightly hollowed on one side to serve as a pillow. The pieces of board were for use as a bed. We were placed two men to a cell v/hich was ten feet long by 4 feet wide by 12 feet high and made of concrete. There was an opening about a foot square in the top of the ceiling. There was just room for two men to lie down side by side. These cells had been previously used by the Eritish to house one asie prisoner in each. 3. Three times a day we received a soup made from root vegetables and refuse from the places of Japanese prisoners in t gaol boiled in water. We also received eight ounces of rice per day; once or twice a week we received a fried fish head. We received a quarter of pint of water three times a day. The Japs refused to exceed this quantity as it would necessitate emptying the latrine can more than once a day. 4 . Fdj? the first three or four days we were not permitted leave the cells but were compelled to sit throughout the day cross-legged at attention. We could hear from the other cells the sounds of people being beaten and their screams. 5. After that we were taken out to work each day from 8 a. to noon and from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. Some of the prisoners were engaged on various fatigues around the gaol, others in the gaol ge.rden and the balance picking hemp. For hemp picking we were compelled to sit cross-legged cn the ground. If the guard considered that a prisoner had not picked sufficient hemp he vnov reduce his already meagre ration. Evidentisry Document N o . 5397• F a 2 . 6 . All of the 80 prisoners at the gaol at the time of our arrival were suffer ing from scabies. Prisoners were also suffering from dysentery, beri beri and malnutrition diseases. The sick were taken each day into an area which was marked off by four posts stuc in the ground with a covering over the top of these sticks. The sjcK were laid out under this cover with a guard over them. They were not allowed to talk. If they could sit up they were compelled to pick hemp. Tliis sick party varied from 10 to 25 in a total complement of 80 to 85 prisoners. They only received half the normal food ration. They received no medical attention "but were occasionally visited by a doctor who would decide whether to send any to hospital. 7 . On 18th May,194-4, I was too sick to stand up and was sent to Changi Internment Camp Hospital suffering from dysentery 5 beri bero, scabies and pellagra, I remained there until 14th April, 19^-5 5 when I was returned to the gaol. 8 . I was put on fatigue work until the first week in July, 194-5} when エ w&s sent to the Fiikittimah Kifle Eange. The work here was very heavy for prisoners in our weakaned condition. It consisted of pick and shovel work, tunnelling, and its associated activities. The general nature of the work was erecting defensive positions for the Japanese. 9 . Upon my return from hospital in April, 194-5,エ found that the food ration had been reduced to 6 ounces of rice per day, a spoonful of boiled green vegetables, and a small quantity of boiled blachan, which is made from decomposed prawns and crabs, That was all the food we received, until our release in August, 1 9 4 5 . 10. The sick were treated in the same manner as prior to my evacuation to hospital with the exception that they were not visited by a doctor. / 1 1 . Beatings were frequent and sevage throughout the whole f period of iry confinement. Fieces of wood, swords and scabbards \ w e r e .used for the purpose. A F.ritish artilleryman named Bradley was beaten on numerous occasions particularly Japanese~g"oocr conduct prisoners N o . 5 2 and K o . 66，who acted as guards. d w a g y p p y し 々 - m a n . — 一 — treajiRr" a WRRk^b.efore his death _guerd No. . He was in a weakened condition. He had been sick and on nair'Tationsr-fur^"S"C5me i"vtime. He was picked up and thrown down on to the ground. His a r m s , l e g s , neck and anv part 广ィ h•‘ ト时 z that was projecting •iî r̂ QP-ppwAri nnt-ii hfi ^nrRa^ffd at the top of—his voiqg_.___His face was rubbed in the dirt. He was Dadly Deaten aoout the body and kicked in the ribs, f?ce and groin. He lost a l&rge quantity of skin. I wss in the cell adjoining his when he died . He was screaming and groaning. Nothing was done to help him; he was not Evidentiary Document No, 5397. P a g e given medical attendance or attention» The gufrds withheld food and water from him on a number of occasions right up tc the time of his death. Gradually his screams and groans Vecame weaker and weaker and then he died a week after being beaten by No. . エ saw a Dutch Eurasian receive a similar beaming to thai which I have described as being administered to Bradley. Another Dutchman named Kris wr.s badly beaten up while suffering from dysentery and beri beri。 エ w&s myself badly beaten and kicked in the ribs and on the thigh, for talking to the man sitting' next to me. I had broken skin down the left side of my hip for three weeks after this. 12. In December, 1944 T or J a n u a r y 19べヲ,_ a B29 which had _ been shot down in raids over Singapore cs.ngnt fire- Twn rppmhprq … of the crev/ were severely burrrt. They were brought in to Outram Ptoad Gaol-；~Thny wnr^ Jncf n^e mass of burns and were Black from head to foot. They were placed in a cell but were not allowed" any medical treatment. 13. In J u n a , 5 ^ I saw a party of nine Allied Airmen — nnt. frr,m thelr cells ~Qn a Saturday a f t e r n o o n w e r e accompanied by a hfiavilv arma^ g”sr3 and a .Tapp.nRsp ^Trial p a r t y ^ Some of this perty were Japanese good conduct prisongjus-^-. Several days later them_tgld me Jha-rTThp 9 airman had had their- heads taken off and that they had helped to bury them. 14. In all between Iliay and July, 1945,エ saw 17 Allied airmen and 15 Chinese civilians tsken out in similar circumstances for execution. The burial party returned tut the prisoners did no The burial party were in a dirty condition, as though they had been digging when they returned. I had some contact with the airmen as I was engaged in taking latrine cans to and from their cells. They told me that they had not been tried. 15. I was released when the Japanese surrendered in August, 194-5. SWOLK AT TOKYO THIS ) THE 21ST DAY OF ) HOVEMEEK, 1946 ) CSgd).1..G..Weyutou BEFORE Ii:E (Sgd).ThoiJias.F. .Mornane Lieutenant-Colonel Australian Military Forces / Nl / it 、 / 碡 Evidentiary Docunent # 3°77* IN THE IA.TTZR OF J^JNESE V. r ,JJ CRIMES 遍 HI THE MATTER OF KI^JTJI N0 4 2 C.J/P, SH'Gr^ORIL. F F I D ム V I T. ,It No. 125474 IvFjor JiJffiS '7ILLLJI DOUGL..S K T LL, Rcyal ‘xm ^ d i c a l Corps, "specialist radiologist f with pennnent hone address at St. Osw:JLd»s House, Stony Stratford, in the County of Buckingham 0 週 • SAY ^S FOLLO'/S: し I was captured in SUNTG^POHE； in February 1942 • I was at GH^NGI PO'J Ccinp frcn February 1942 tc I沿y 1944 • I then went to KRiiNJI N0_ 1 Cajiip fron 卿 1 9 4 4 untilムpril 1945• I then rxjvod to I^'JIJI NO. 2 Coup where ェ remlned until hostilities ended J 2. I have read the affidavit cf Mijcr Bradshay whe was senior British officer at K R i H N〔. 2 C^np and ェ cigrec with hin about the distinction bctueen ER/JSTI ITc.1 and KRuNJI Nc* 2 Cai^ps. (I wとs senior nefii(K、.l officer at KRl^JI No. 2 C⑵P:, I cgree v/ith paragraph 3 cf W.jct Eradshaw^s affidavit which sets cut the work v;hich tho imiatcs cf KR^IJI N。《 2 were supposed tc do. 4* r ;ith regard tc Liodical conditions generally at the ccup I have this repcrt tc m k c : - Deficiency diseases： Beri-beri yes nest prcriincnt and uas c-luays on the increase"^ par cxcmiple in April 1945 only twe cases of beri-beri v/ere unable tc "go tc r;crk # In If̂ y this naiiber had risen to nine and in June tc 35 and July tc 43* During this tiix； at least an equal nurabor cf people had syqptcns of beri-beri but v:ere just able to continue their work. By the end cf July nearly 100 nen had bcri-beri synptci^is• Despite, repeated requests which エ m d e for rice polishings these v:ere only provided fron nid- junc tc J/Eid-July. ]]yen so only four pounds daily r/as supplied T?hich was about one seventh of the cnoixnt we wonted,丄‘ eliじht ir-prcvoraont was shev/n ancng these favcured tcv: to nhon rice pclishin^s tjctq given* I/nlaria. jjo cinti-rx.laria 1 precautions were pori:dttcd in the vicinity of the caap j and it was thought that the incidence would be very high, particularly as the second quarter of the year is the season fcr nalaria. incidGiice j Tじble 1 shcr;s the figures• No case suffered fron very grcss anaerjia in spite of the great nunber of relapses in nany individuals • There was one case of cerobral sub-tertian nalaria vvhich roccverod. m view cf the lack cf anti-mlarial neasures it was considered that the incidence r;as not unduly high； Evidentiary Dccunont # 5077• Slides cza:.nnccl 2. T^ble lo Total 3T IW TOT ET MT TCT primary ET MT TOT 1945 April June July lo 22 “ugust Grand Total 1271 22k 6 1 43,5 300 24 7k 37 H I .Dysentery： T^e oaiip was virtually free frcn dysentery until 了uly TThen thero was a s m l l outbreak cf a nild bacillary f c m # / Fortunately there were no serious cases and never nore than nine at any one tine； thus it will be seen that the outbreak never reached epidemc prcpcrticns. However, ascaris T7as very cconcn and was the cause of rjuch diarrhoea and a variety cf abdcninal synptcns。 it is cstiriated that nearly half the cai^ suffered frcn this infection. f pulnonary tuberculosis： cc.ses xiqtq dicgncsed in July (strong- ly positive sputum) # They \7ere both very active eases and both in very under-nourished nen ex-PaXSJ^J-IG, Facilities fcr x-ray and artificial pnem:io -1 her ax wore available v/ithin 300 yards but were repeatedly refused. Diphtheria； There T7ere four cases of skin diphtheria, all appearing in July, “11 had lar^c leg ulcers, but none cf the cases v/as seriously ill # “s nc facilities were available fcr isclaticn the T . E s” diph- theries and dysenteries had to be housed underneath huts. The head-rcon GDcunted tc abcut four feet rxikiiî ; nediccl erxxxdnc-ticn uid nursing very cLifXIcult. F u r t h e m r c nuch of tho dust frc::: the floor above incitilby cane C.c\m on these unfortunate patientsり i Tropical skin ulcors： These v;ore very coo.xn；- and left m y r.en ! off work, sene fcr several T7eeks<. Fortunately none bec:xie very severe cr devolcped couplicaticns and anputaticn of a lii.:b never had tc be considered • エ n j u r i e s : censicoring the highly dしJi : ',erous nature cf the work being perfcrucd and the 1しck of proper precciutions, the injury rate xias relatively lov^ one nan \ic.s bur .led by a fall cf earth end suffccatcd to death before he could be due out. l,io other injury incapacitated anyone for ncre thcji a nonth 0 3 19 9 9 1 3 2 1 5 7 8 9 8 8 4 1 o 1 2 12 1 11 o 6 6 2 r J 8 9 7 4 4 6 7 3 7 7493 1 4 7 8 7 4 2 9 5 5 3 8 9 2 9 1 9 1 4 6 1 1111 515 9 4 2 7 8 o 8 1 6 5 7 c 3 8 6 9 7 5 2 2 3 2 / Hospital accoo^odaticn： This uas 乙'rcssly inadequate in every respect. It v/as iiipossible tc obtain beds fcr all the patients and eatresses were supplied only to the nest serious cases, in the first few lyidentiory Dccunent § 5077® J T7eeks no mtresses at all were available. No sheets vero available at any ；tir.ie # There wこs extrex.ie overcrcv;ding. Not ncrethan nine inches sopciratod -each bed-space• Only one bed pan and one urine bottle x:ere provided for the whole hospital, no bculs or basins v;ere provided at all 6 Operating theatre： port cf a hut v/qs inprcvised as a theatre and clectric light was available fron an engine in the adjacent ccnp # On three occasions, hcivever the engine was deliberately stopped before the ccnpletioi of an operation at night, and candles cr burning red pain oil had to be usee as illuninaticn. I prw:s： Deficiencies ucre far too nuneroas to list, but the arrival of Red cress supplies m d e an cnomcus difference» Rations； These were q.uitc insufficient and the prisoners of war suffered seriously fron undcr-ncurishiucnt 9 Car:p hygiene： 1.Latrines； Eore-holes and deep trench latrines MOTQ USCd•/ The chief difficulty encountered was the total absence of a supply of wood fcr latrine tops in spite of repeated requests. Kails and screws T7ore also net available., ^s a result living quarters had tc be partially stripped to obtain v/cod and nails. This never becone a nonace in the caLip• ii. ： l̂it supply adequate but the nuubcr cf sliowors grossly incdequate 一 one per hundred nen • There would have been no difficulty about supplying further showers but all requests uero disreigordec [iii # Cooking： Facilities were grossly incxlequate in every way. One snail ccckhcuse h-d to feed tho uhclo ccujp # iv. Housing accomodaticn： Grcss cvercrovdins existed due tc the insufficient Gcc。ix:odation 0 Thirteen huts v;ore allotted tc house the other ranks (15 officers in one suicill Lut 32 foot by If ft 0 - 32 square feet per head), .and the average nunber per hut v/as 69• tc alloviatc the congosticn a number cf rien were allowed tc sloop under the huts, the nunber averaging nine perhut • ^ho huts r/erc cf ニ unifcm size ueasurin^ 96 feet lone by feet wide end having a floor space cf 1440 square feet• E^ch nan wこs thus allov/ofi a spacc of apprcxiixitoly 20 square feet and uhen it is considered that the ncrual fleer space is 60 feet sone idea of the extent of the ovorcrcTrdinc can be cbtainod, it night else be added that a much greater space is allowed to troops in tropical stations, (straits Sottlenient 100 squurc feet '/ • Sick wind v;orkin{； figures; F/1D. DOC.ガ 5077. my June july Aug. . 1 1943 1 3 15 9 18 l 11 23 15 40 11 1 31 39 15 37 31 (Strength increased by l 39 55 15 43 5k 1 56 67 巧 ら3 84 17 The above table shews the hospital figures, nc duty personnel, total sick, working party stren^h and percentage cf i/orlcin^ party required by the inporial Japanese out at v/crk # Tho figures for no duty personnel are extrenely high cuing to tlie liiiitod hospital accomo- dation. エn placcs where ncre normal ccnclitioiis prevail tho mjority cf these wculd be hospital pr.tients, / in the early part of ムugust it was obvious that the health of the nen was deteriorating and that they were, beginning to crack under the strain of hard ；7crl: and under-nourishnent it became progressively noro difficult to maintain working figures* On 17 August the penultirx.te working clay, the working figures had dropped tc 737» n̂cl the war con- tinued there is very little doubt that by septenber it T/culd have been impossible to find 700 fit nen tc ムo cut tc work. i Tho increase in the nuriber of sick cc.usod very gross over- crowding in tho hcspitcil, and uany patients T?iic shculcl have been hespita- lised uere of necessity treated in lines. The incidencc of trauixitic leg ulccrs contracted at work was ever on the increase Conclusions： judging by Milayc.n p〇、r working cciips there is nothing remarkable to ncte except perhaps surprise that the sickness was net m c h higher. v.'hcn one rcneLibors that a nan hc.d only one day's rest in ten, that he carcse fron his natrcssless bed three-quarters cf an hour before daun, hurriedly ate his neagre breakfast, rushed out to work, returned v.t dusk, ate his evening neし1 at, or after, dark, had a shcv;er 5 then visited the nedicul inspection roon for the dressing cf his seres by very inadequate artificial light, ucis then left perhaps half un hour to hinself before "lights out “ it is very remarkable that sc riany nen were able to continue this without interruption for well over 100 days. 4- Date No Total Hospital Duty Sick percentage of Total TTcrking party \7crking required by party Inp. Japanese ajriqy 3 o 8 o 3 85818 c • • • • _ • • « • 5 3 o 9 o 3 Q C 5 5 8 9 9 9 8 9 8 8 8 8 7 2 2 8542 o 7 343 4 6 3 3 3 5 3 2 7 2 6 o 2 o 8 8 8 796 737 4 7 41 o 8 4 7 3 7 2 3 3 7 6 9 9 2 4 1 1 Evidentiary Docuraent 接 5°77» 5 . The morale throughout T/QS excellent and the behaviour of the patients in such difficult circur.istances also excellent • Tl'iere T?ere no cases of niGnt し1 disease, ^here was sone t unne 1-pho bo a, particularly just after the unfortunate individual ?/as baried alive by a fall,, ；practically all requests fcr inprovoLients in nodical conditions wero refused # i x n operating theatre (first-class by PO'.； standards) existed in the adjacent canp but we were not allcv/ed the use cf it. The liver abscess was operated upon in the next canp after the imperial Japanese had been at last persuaded that the nan T/culd die if he were net transferred* All other facilities such as they irere at the adjacent hospital were also refused, / Only one death occurred in the canp during the period under review (acute pancreatitis) :nd one case (suffocation in tiarmel) v/as brought in deacl« ム doctor Lieutenant NニJCC of the inperial Japanese ijri：̂/ was in nedical charge of the canp but never once visited it or consulted ne in spite of repeated requests by me to his juniors particularly v/ith regard to the exairdnaticn こaid disposal of serious cases. Ccrxient • No change occurred in the attitude cf the imperial Japanese ijrrjy until after the ccipitulaticn。 Even then the only nedical .ccncessicn they nada vl:s that operation cases would be peri;iitted tc be transferred to KRiJ、了JI 1 Hospital, The general lot of the patients was unchanged except that the degree of cvercrcv/din^ was even greater than before. 5。 { proLi 22 August cnuards until the relief by British Forces early in s^ptenber conditions in the carip slightly iriprcved, - fcr oxai._plc tv;c tons of rice polishings cane in in one day. prior to this only four pounds wore issued daily for the whole canp strength cf apprcxinately 1020 and then only for about one nonth• 6. purthernore /oncrmcus quantities cf Rod Cress parcels and stores r;hich had obviously been on SINGAPORE エ;SLi.JMD for ncnths if net yocxs were sent in to us. in addition large stocks cf butter frca;: the cold storage iix siiig^'pore v. T ere sent in. This uas Australian butter which had been there since the capitulation in February 1942• powdered r^ilk cane in in large qu, ntities« .:e had repeatedly askod for this for our seriously ill casos, particularly these with gastric ulceraticn„ ム11 cur requests had c.lv/ays been refused. This proves that the stocks cf Red Cress food rjid i-ilk and butter were available on the island^ and that cur starvation was not due tc the allied blockade,' The persons エ recarcl as being primarily responsible for this were the Cご丄Ccixiandant f CSM Y〇SIiU[“.7“, ̂ lic v;as comcindont cf both KR/JJJI 1 ^nd KRiJSFJI N〇》2 It was he v;hc refused requests for very sick people tc be transferred tc K R i H Ucu v/hich was tho hospital canp # 朋 was an unpleascjit iian and ri'de no secret of his dislike fcr tho British cmd vas in every way brut-1 and callous ；tov/arcls us. ^nother person i/hon I consider as m c h responsible as Y O S H H W A was Lieut• NプJQ, the doctor, HG cane to us early in June and m d e a speech Evidentiary Dccu:.ient § 3°77» by the said u s s .CLLI二： CCUGL-S BULL r.t 6 spring C^'rdens la tb.6 C..i、j o.i' I'/sst.min- ster this I71.I1 dc.y of janucry 1 贴 Before ue (Signed) J.7.D. BULL. (sisned) i l 4 M. H 2 L L U D 0 U ‘ J.fijor, L 鄉 1 Staff, Hilitary , the :"udge advocate (jenercjL, Lonclon. Office of I certify thr.t this is a 4e copy of the original affidavit. (Signed) HEIX—]^CDCKuID. mjor, Le^-l Staff, Office of the judge .^dvoccto General, 6. cn his arrival saying ho r/ould give us ovc-ry assistance, in fニct he gave us none, I porscnally only saw hin cnce after that speech。 He never cane round the ccmp fxid. nr.do no effort to eec YOSHI[ニニ.’人 to take in our very sick people. othur parsonaiities include serjeant-lpjor MTSENU who wc.s the n^dicr.l ITCC. Hs was not actually cruel but bone idle and cf nc assistance .iha.^vor, Corporal iJISHITiĴ .ふ acted c.s quartern&ster and to rjy cerxc-in kijouiadgs r.iisappropriated our rations。 He used to sell tiien in the tr..saor。 ) ) ) j^u ff r ] ̂ Evidentiary Document No. E T E H K I T I O N A L H E L I T A R Y T R I B U N A L FOR T H E FIJL E ^ S T N O . 1 . ui T rrrD states of ajerk人•ふid others • J C I . • ム 0 iJ® OTHERS. ]：• BUHNZTT LRSI.IE yOODBUHN C U J O l of EEISB^TE in the ST.iTE of dUECNSL/J®, HLDICAL PHxiCTITIOKLR, riake oath and say as follows：- ェ was q^.228o6 LtJOR BcL.W. CLAHKE, 2/13 7 ムUST. DIVISION， wi:.en I becane a prisoner of v/ar in the hands of the Japanese Forces. 2. マe 二’ere captured on the 13th February, 1942 1 tuo days before SINCLiPOHE fell. Our hospital was loft alone until appjoximately 20tli February, L series of Japanese cane out, had a rou^h look over the hospital and told us ue had to be moved out to SELEEANG 3AHRACE within five days, 3 . T?e had approxiiiately 1800 patients on cur hands, T^o thirds were battle casualties# yjq asked for time to allow sone of these seriously uoun^ed men a chance to recover. The Japanese refused # They supplied us with/certain anount of transport c. By over-crowding the vehicles with nien and natcriai, everybody roccived transport to the new area. 4. on arriving at SEIJKRi'JMG we were given 0.lcn^ barrack buildinc uliick we had to clean up. By cleaning up, I :;iean wreckage had to be sluixed where shells and bonbs had exploded. Tho space allotted to each L m was 6 ft • by 3 ft • T?ith no provision for passages betweentlie beds which were janned up against each other• our ration cf rater was one quart per man por day for all purposes. This water uas infected and had to be sterilized by boiling before we could drink it # Tho fuel ration xvas lbs # of wood per nan per day. 6, it uas extrer;:ely hot at the tine and naturally a yreat deal of con- taminated rater was drunk by the ueru Dysentery folloxred.ェ an not quite certain of tho figures, but I believe 3»000 out of 12,000 non 乙ot dysentery in the first three months• in addition the hygiene systen had conpletely broken dora, Tlie Japanese did not 洼ve us any tools to di^ latrines. This helped the spread of dysentery, it vas approximately ten weeks before they would ^ive us any tools or covering for the latrine pits. After being in SHLER』!G for tv:o ueeks we v;ere ofiered to move to ROBERTS about one and a half uiles auay, the Japanese idea bein乙 to m k e one combined hospital in a separate area, A liraited oniount of transpor was Given for this second uove, so that really only the sick v;ere transporte Tlie rest walked• conditions in ROBERTS E-HRACICS v/ere worse than in SELSRiふTG A tremendous aoourit of darx^ce had been done by bonbinc and shelling and we h to clean this area up in the sane way as we cleaned up SELEFUJN丁G. W© repuire Evidentiary Dccimient ]\to, 2. A various buildings, usin^ a little bluffing to しet soi.ie of the tilings we v;anted # m the meantine the Japanese had put us all on the I.了•ム.ration ；；liich consisted nainly of rice。 cur nedical nen pointed out that this aiet \7Qs definitely deficient in proteins, fats, vitaLdns, ctc # f and thut v/ithin two uonths deficiency diseases would follow, and in ムpril f a larこe i.uiuber of nen caue in suffering fron beri beri # This was followed in subsequent nonths by a great m n y other deficiency diseases,such as arabylopiし.,scrotal dermatitis, glossitis, stomatitis, pedialgia (happy feet) and various forus of paralysis, appeal was nade to tlie japcjiece for rice pollshines to counteract sone of these deficiency aiceases. After souo considerable delay 9 approximately tuo nonths, tliey £;ave us s o n rice polishing,s and told us ye could buy some incre fron then, m 可 ot;ii private opinion the Japcinese showed no interest in our food at all. iLat r;as the general attitude of the Japanese. 8« iy OT. r n personal problon was in connection with rjy slcin rard (エでas “。エ，エへ Deri^tolo Ll ist) and vith tlie lack of dressings and Liedical supplies, an appeal for dressings vas answer3d by receipt of a truck load of old clothes, towels, various discarded bits of linen ana other faoric which ne had to sterilize ourselves, v:ith no increase in vrator or fuel ration to help us. 9® About the end of 1942 approxiaately 1^0 rニen were brought in frora Fuala Lunpur {-aol e Tiiesc nen had been cut off during the war, incarcerated and1 in addition to the ordinary deficiency diseases, they Tvere covered with scabies• Up till thc.t tine v;e had no scabies, Zfter this v;e were not able to elii-iin^te scabies from the prison area in Chanじi, mainly because the Japanese uould not give us any extra nedical supplies or d r e s s i n g s R e q u e s t s for suck r^atters as hot baths failed to rous< tLe interest of the Japanese d However, by careful mnagenent on our part, we could しivo a certain nunber, roughly L\.0 9 hot baths per day. I,pre vital dru^s of the Benzol ^roup uere refused， scabies rapidly becane infected and opened up the v?ay for Diphtheria involving the skin, in the early days we had brought in sone anti-diphtheria senun, but the Japanese gave no rep丄ciceLierrt to uy knowledge until 1945? and. then only very liiaited aoounts, so that only selected serious cases could get the serun， Certain skin diseases, such as tinea, reached treuenaous proportion and after our own liinited supply which ue had brought into the coup had run out, the Japanese only gave us the barest i..iini::iura v/hiol：-. ras totally insufficient to cope with the outbreak of skin diseases,, 19» i/plaria； Before tlie war Singapore and lower johore were nalc^ia free f Japanese Liade no attenpt to control the spread of m l a r i a uitL the result that over 80 percent of the prisoners uere infected with malaria. Owin^ to the limited supply f our treatr/ient of nialaria uas totally inadequate. nuinbers of patients who have returned to “ufrtrclia Ccin tell of 30, 40• or 30 recurrences. 11• ，，ith regrd to deficiency diseases, api>aal.s rrî '̂3 + ハ 41‘ TnT-iOn er\n - o Evidentiary Docunent ^o. ^O^kB* 3 ブ response uas ne£lifiible f but v/e had been able, by ；?hat aoounts to bluffing, to QOt the jcpanose to pass over to us large quantities of Mir- nite which ue knou v;as stored in tho British i^dical D^pot in Singapore• SOLietiues the quantity civen was adequate f but more often it was totally inadequate- # 冗e were reduced to rationing ]\.!pri.J.te aioongt the very sick. It uas inpossible to use it as a prophylactic. 12. For the first five Donths about tv;o ounces of neat per &’.n yas brought into the cai-jp tuice a week。 This ran out about August• A Gross ship ccxae in in September 1942 and the Japanese delivered to us fairly large supplies v;hich carricd us on for throe nonths, ."e received food and sone Liedicines # The food consisted cf such things as bully beef t ovccltine did i:iarLiite 0 personal observation here is that it v/as the intention of the Japanese to fatten the nen up prior to renoving lar^o parties to other purts # Those biし parties be^an to leave CHANGI in late January 1943 UP to np.y 1943- It vas subsequently found that the parties referred to had been sent Liainly to Burma, Thailand, Borneo, and japan. After those parties had Q-one conditions temporarily inprovod o??ing to the exodus of sucL a lar^e nunber of nen» The Japanese said they were going t substitute fish for neat ̂ The mjority cf thしload cf fish th&t ugs brought into canp consisted of little things about 2" tc 3 " l o n e which appeared to be several day sold and in the mjority of cases, vere totally inedible• ue used tLera for fertilizer for our gardens• 13• in Decenber 1943, a l^rge portion of F Force returned fron the Buri^a-Tliailand Railv/ay. These raen T7ere in a shocking condition suffering from £rocs attacks of beri beri in its various types, rxilaria, tropical ulcers and cross debility. The loss of weight vas simply appalin^ The average loss of uei^ht would appear to be in the neighbourhood of 7〇 to 80 lbs. per individuals 14• /ipproxiL^itoly 8C percent of these î en had to be adi.iitted iixieaiately to hospital, and ne v/ere confronted v/itli tlxroe serious problems - ( 1 ) T h e lack of beds of any sort for the nen; (2) the replacement of clothing, and (3、 the enorijous drain on our Liininmn medical und food supply # to 颂 kno^/led^e the Japanese raade no attenpt to replace any hospital equipnent such as bods, bedding and other inport- ant equipnent until after the l6th ニuしust 1945• M ^ y of the men who returned fron Thailand F Force had to lie on bare boards or on the con- crete floors.マe appealed for clothing but the appeal fell on deaf ears, 1_5• £arly in 1944 rx)re parties ucre returned frcn other parts in the same state. l6• in ^pril or î xy 1944» after nany appeals to tho Japanese, they decided to set up another hospital at EranGi® The renainder of our beds and beddinし was sent out to lyaxi^i trhere it was the intention tc estab- lish a 600 bed hospital essentially for the treatnent of chronic cases such as T.B. 1 (gastric ulcers 7 Gtc c This hospital c c m under combined 1 British and Australian control while v;e v;ere left ir. Channel yi+b rrpqハ Evidentic^ry Docmiont Fo^ 50643^ ^ 1 ordered the raole of the area to be vacated and a hospital set up in the outskirts of chai^i ^apl. Here the nen were housed in 100 metre huts and approximtely 220 nen had to be accomodated in tliese huts。 The huts were built of banboos f coooanut pain and other jungle material, I.^ny of thein were not even waterproof• l̂ie osn lay on platforms, the space for each bed was 6 ft. by .3 ft. for all purposes• Further appeal for sone sort of bodding, blankets e t c” was refused s 17® Judical supplies and dressings uere almost exhausted• The； Japanese rsfused to replenish then r Many cf us endeavoured to divise neons of overconing these difficulties re^ardin^ dru^s, iron as a tonic for anaerdlcs was m d e in our canp by our Engineers. The lack of supply of vi七aiiin 口as bo a certain extent overcoiiie by extractinc the juice frcn crass and certain local flora• The Japanese did not Liakc any attenpt to interfere with our own efforts。 16• After roniovin^ to Changi gaol area in June 1944 the food position becaoD acutc a The Japanese greatly reduced the ration so that early in 1945 the nen were showing very definite signs of eoaciation which eraduall:， Qot worse and worse until the surronder, 19• Coinciding v/ith this c^osq emciation there vras a trenendous increase in tLe sickness rate, The nen v/ero in such a debilitated state they easily contracted any other diseases f such as boils, roany of which become infected v/ith diphtheria； lunc condition such as T 0 B e and pneunDxiia； while as a result of the shocking diet the men developed various forms of dysentery and m n y foriLs of diarrhoea which resulted in loany deaths • 20. The difficulties all the tiir^ were bein^ increased by the arrival of laree partias of Dutch, British, and Australian, prisoners of war fron Java, Sumatra, and other parts of the H I . All of these were in an appalling condition and no help was ^ivon by our hosts regarding food, radical supplies f or the elementary requirenients of an ordinary canp 勢 21. lack of clothing was having a very disastrous effect on the i:ie’n and in about February 1945 a disease which we regard as pellagra established a firm hold on the prisoners of T/ar. 1 an definitely of the opinion that had the Japanese supplied us \iith reasonable clothing and reasonable food this outbreak uould have been averted. 22 • Ri^iit throuoli the whole psriod that we were interned it was inpossible to eradicate scabies, tinea in its ijaiiy forris t dysentery, nalaria and the general deficiency diseases such us beri beri, pala^ra otc. 0.ヴ own private opinion was that the Japanese desired to extermnate us by tl̂ fifif; ri^^^, f Their attitude was one of total inairfercnce ana tlie~" results T/ere only to be expected, 23. On approximately the l6tli of August 1945 the Japanese brought into n w onrrn 戶竹ハハ”汽“ ? ‘ ° ハ"1 Evidentiary Document No. 5 .太 ；blanket, one pair cf shorts, shirt, boots, socks• The food supply vas j extreuely extravagant f the rice issue jumped fron 12 to 30 ounces per day f I tons of butter| cheese, m l k and ueat were brouclit in such hu^e quantities (v/e could not possibly handle theu0 エ sar the Lnrk "I-TORCOn on sone of the j butter 9 This food was in quite good condition and although the date on j one parcel of jjer; Zealand butter v:as 1933 1 it was still ^oodU m addition ！ enorrx>us quantities of nodical supplies were brought in, including vitaiuins j atebrin, and other dru^s, T;hich \io had been desperately wanting over the I last tlaree years,i;e believe this m t e r i a l had been available all the tine ！ 2i|. “s regards the Red Cross, my observations r;ere that a Red Cross ^ ship cane in in soptenber 194 2 for three nioiiths cood supplies were \ handed to us<> in Exarch 1944 a s m l l shipnent of Red Cress food uas brought j in which lasted about three weeks. The next was in i-̂ irch. 1945• One Rod t Crocs parcel,approxiLiately 7 l b s " uas distributed between 28 men on j Wednesday's and Sundays• That lasted ten veeks. T̂ .̂ s food really only I acted as flavour• on imny occasions we sqxt Japanese snioking 脚:iel and ！ player cigarettes• The packets v;ere quite fresh. They were siuilar to I ^ e ones the Rod Cross issued to us after the Japanese surrender« On I several occasions I saw J^rgentine Bully Beef tins discarded by the Japanese• jjr[jentine B^lly B^ef v:as supplied to us after the japcaiese surrender• 25- The only m r k i n G 011 the hospital \;as a Geneva flag in the raddle of the cai;p» Lights out was at 10 p a n d v;e uere not allowed to use lights in the wards after tliis tine 0 Japanese guards used to cone to the hospital for treatnent• 26• The Japanese D.D.J^S, of clia^Gi ^as Capt• Suzuki,ェ personally interviov/ed hiri on rx>re than one occasion， 1 m d e uany requests of hinj none vere acceded t o ， エ cannot recollect liin granting any request. 27» in approximately September 1944 the Japanese issued three scales of diet; heavy duty, li^lit duty, and no duty # This meant that the sick nen しot only half the ration of a 咖n on heavy duty» The heavy duty rat ion was in our opinion, totally inadequate even for a inan in a sedentary occupation a T^is continued until the day of surrender. 28• The Japanese also refused to pay anybody who r;as not on duty, in other uords - no pay, no food for the sick nen # • ̂ ST,'OHM BEFOHE I E JLT ERISBAHE OIL T I N ? ) 13TH DAY OF S3PT3.:IER, 194^. ) (Signed’ B.L.U, CLAEKZ. (Signed) A 0 H . DILJIITT, J.r. JUSTICE OF THE PK.CI. Sridentiary DocuijQiit 社 で、作 Evidence taken at SYDITEY before B?. justice M^NSFTKHD cn Thursday 22 iwenber 1945 • iyiじadier Frederick GallaGher Ĝ \LLE®I/JNJ beinじ duly sworn jives the • fcllovan^ evidence：- I ai.i KX70ij.l6 nricadior Frederick Gallagher GiJJLEdU^. of 27 Bde # I.y private address is 68 avenue Road, l5Dsmn, j telephone number During the fi^tinc preceding the fall of siiiG^pore エ was Q . t 1 ワハŶ V̂ nr.們mviiry. 2/jO Ui.丁ー エ was taken prisoner at Singapore 、ノ,） ( r e b » Ij^jvDurin^ the fi{jhtine prior to the surrender I did not see any v ^Taptme'se v;ar crines or atrocities» I was a prisoner at ch^noi• On the departure of i/uj # Gen # G/JjL*GrlL'JJ I becarae conraander of the 人•：[•]?• Chan^i and エ regained as such until the Japanese capitulation in 1945• Col» Holines was in charge of jwplayan coixiand # nis actual posting was Comander British Austral ian Troops x was Deputy conoander tc hin and fcr the last 18 nonths エ was ‘ノGond because cf his incapacity. I i/as in chore© of a working party in siiiC a P c r e ^ ^ nothing untov:ard happened until 1 xias involved in the selaran^ incident.^ on 31 August 42 pressure was brought tc bear by tho Japanese on us to sT^n a non-escapo f o m # The Japanese issued an order dated 31 Au{jo_42 and nunbered J^ which required all prisoners of uar to si^n oTnon-escaj^> Qjieclaratioii) on that day thoy paraded Col« Holnes and the"3"5iivisional Ccrxianders who were there, showed the forn to Holnes and said they re- quired us all to si{jn it that day # iTe had no knowledge of what they r. r ero ^oin^ to ask. Holnes refused on liiB ovm behalf to issue the order t It v/as then passed to ea«h cf the corxianders in turn and \ie each refused to issue an order to si^jn it # gene discussion tock place• it vras pretty obvious we were coinc to have to sl^n it, -7e tried to reach a compromise • Their m i n point was that they ivere ムoinじ to shoot anyone who attenpted to escape, "{je said xre would pronise not to attenpt to escape understanding that the penalty was death, and asked thera to put that on their printed forn, which would be against the Convention # They refused to do that # After a lot of talk, lasting 2 hours, they refused to riake any anencju«rit 9 They said the f c m was drami up in ^okio and _only Tokio could amend it • it was phrased, hercb： proi.ii^e" or, "I prcnise u^Qii W honour not to atterpt to escaEgJU I took the objection that no soldiei nus power to pronise not to escape • There was no opportunity of escape j it was a natter of principle• it is a soldier's duty to escape, and the Japanese f having si{？led the convention, had no riこM to ask us to si0i that # 中 I^identiary Docuuent H 2. LV As had refused they asked us to give an order to the troops tc do it 0 '7© refused ond thoy said the whole of the troops rjust have an opportunity of sigiinc if they wished. That was on 31 Au^. The m i n Japanese present at the conference were Lt P OKAS/JIJ ^ o uas a staff Officer, Col^^gT/^lE and Col, n J T H C T T . T^e one civiiic the order was Col^ lliJniMlI^ HP to then there had been several jap Staff officers ccniinc down to see us. 9 r ;e each put it to the troops and they all refused r excepting one or two British フho offered to si-^n it, ro Australians offered tc OiCIl It e : —- On the ni^ht 1-2 Scpto we were warned thcit by 丄t300 hours the next day the whole of the prisoners of war would concentrate -qelarary. lorrack SQUurSe ”'e had to issue orders through the nijat about it. It ras a b i ^ i:x>ve, At 1100 hours on 2 sept, thy Japanese people called for 4 OR's, •w。of ulion were Australians. OpI» J ^ n w n r w and rte, GALE, Tiie instructions were to hand these It. nen over~fo~ :Eho~driver of a truck, アlie k xbd. conoemor. load m d e an atter|,fc to escape and Lad been appre- hended bv the .Tapa- j a se. j_ .just forget how far BrcviiiGtoxi and Gale had i^ot, but they had “ot a considerable distance end they had been "back is apanese lianas since about June l\2» They TOre~iaken to a eaqj controlles 丨y tho mdioia Haiic-nal jj-ny. quite adjacent to the p017 Canp.~I'knevir ユat these two soldiers liaa^atteapted to escape, but tliey had been back aしlua^ tog particularly as "tnoy were in hospital, one never eagiectearany-cniflg Pat the routine tiling, wiiion was tc take_then to the L indian carp for iirfcerrc“atioii.一 The nover^rvt to tlie Barrack square was by then commenced. At neon col« Holies received an order for Uiaself and his Jj-ea Couijanders to rendezvous„ ne had Given a subsidiary order to rjeet hin at another spot so v;e could (jo together» nobody knew whai; it was about, tmd TO thought the japs i;ere probably catering their place of incarceration fron the r.arrack squLire, which laad buildings, to the beach where wc would bo without any sliadc at all. ihirJcinc that is what it was all about i took with no 可 personal assistant, capt 0 N.G. Mccauloy, and v;o arrived at nolrx-s' rendezvous to find thoy had ixvcd on to the beach, about anotlicr thrcc-guartor m l c s , before ws arrived， I ^ot to the beach, reported to noljxs and v. r as inforiaod r;e irere there by Japanese jmlar to vritnoss the execution of the % soldiers, including rrevin^ton and Galo« Okasaki picked us up on the road in his car, about 去 raile fron tlie Lcach, ne was Dost polite and rest friendly and didn 了 t qIvq ne arjy indication, as to what I was £join“ to. Evidontiary Docuiaent # 5058* 3. 乙ot on to the bcach before the fellows to be executed had m arrived• Hollies told us that was what xjq were there for. .ji inter- preter nancd T . O W C W vtas there # エ had a talk v/ith hin and asked could anything be done" to stop tlierfee executions 0 He replied, he v;as there purely under orders as interproter, but he could assure ne nothing could bo done BScausbUeneral FUYllKE had civen the orders for ©xecutior- Later 3 of the soldiers arrived by truck from this Indian 一canu The fourth rxtn, v;ho had Deen too fll to go into the Indian canp, had been picked up at cur own POT； Hospital and he arrived # ihree of the 4, including Brevin^ton and Gale, were in—^jarns. Brevinoton could not stand v;itlicux — flie assistance of a stick # After the 4 soldiers arrived, q truck load of what v;e oalled the Indian jmtional ‘jray troops arrived,10 or a dozen of then, with picks and shove Is c m the neantine； the 4 soldiors liad been taken near the water's edc>e and v/ere standing there in the sun uithout hats # Tho Indian troops with their picks end shovels uere mkin^j as much nois with then as they could, thinking they xiere there for a picnic• Later 4 r.iore m d i a n soldiers arrived with an m d i a n officer named Lt# RAIL, p o m had been a viceroy ccinimssioned officer in the Indian 一 … ~ Okasaki wont to a lot of trouble placing the i;irien to be executed in what he considered the correct position, ix>vin^ th.en fron one spot tc anothur f and then the snectators were rx>ved around # I gained the iupression this was to rxike tho job harder fcr those watchin Finally the correct spot was selected. They were placed with their bac to the sea. TliO 4 Indians v;hc v/ere the f j r ^ g party- dTnppg^ 左。the kr^eeliiy; posit ion • — "gkasaki vzent to the 4 soldiers and asked then did they T/anx to be blindfolded and they refused that. They allowed the Assistant Chaplain General t Rev• Lewis Br^o^ f and radre v^tson^ one 一 R o n a n catholic and one ブjirqicaru both British radnfi.a t to talk to the 4, T^^y ^llo-ed tLe:.: about 2 minutes cach^ i^^re v/crc 2:0 nc r s tLero and \7ats0n oqj^ back. Levas Bryan said a prayor with the 4 and then he rejoined the spectators 0 Iiic order was then 乙iven to the Indian firinz. party to load. j 脚七 at that tine； Lt. i^am went to the k nen. lie apparently laiew Gale before, because ho shooK hands with Gale, .qubseaueiitlv he fshook hand?；— with Erevin^ton and then with the other 2 r but it_ seened. obvious to ne he wenl to snake hands with rale, t卜啊论 hack, ordered the }Tr, t P n^-i； p f T n e fTrin^ pa-rt.y whn w a 8 opposite _Gale to relinquish his position, Jo碑 hi3 rifle gx̂ d kneei^a~3。yn, ‘ okasaki cave the order to f i r e T y - handkerchief• Tho' whole 4 were knocked on their backs with the first shot, m ny opinion,, nore v/ere killsd.マe later thought that possibly tlie on the ri‘;lit who was shot through the chest ni^lit have been. Tlie uen 'fell in all sorts of attitudes, and as scon as they fell, the firing party continued to fire at then on the ^ o u n d . They fired possibly 5 or 6 shots when rrevincton sat up. He said, «por God's sake. Evidentiary Document # sli^ot oe tliroucli tlie head and kill ne. You have only hit roe in the qtlu lie was" nit in" niore—fEHir"ttie~arn because fliey hit the whole 4 of then betv/een the le^s and in the stonachs# They fired about 10 shots and Okasaki £,ave the order to step firing® Each nienber of the firing party was then rx>ved up opposite the m n he had killed, or v;as supposed to have killed, and they v/ere all ordered to fire 5 r^ore rounds into the body. Cel. okane cane v/ith okasaki and the interpreter and addressed the spectators. The general ^ist of what he said is, w^giese nen liave been p2ljLli£l--- f l- n 'tr b i-.ĥ y r)i,pobeyed tLo oWlgrri_of tl-.e .mpaiiese ；^y^ Tlie Japanese ンjray do net like to put to death rOU but unless ycu obey our orders you iaist be put tc deatli # . y;e cannot understand. uhy you uill not order your soldiers to sif-n this ncn-escape declaratifizu_ ^oii^nust understand that this is" a "Japanese orderマ• ^e had asked, if they wanted us tc si^n this order, to us a'TTrn order® if they ordered us to siこ’n, it relieved us of any question of obeying it on our laonour. The question was irxiediately raised f v;ore they ordering us to sicn. lie said, "NOf but ycu nust all sicn «• interpreter iroriachu spoke very ムcod jn^lish I did. quite a lot of dealing \/itli hin 9 I said, »Look f it is no ^ood^ \:o ^ are not coinし to si£;n that unless you order us to do so. You have been • educated in ;gtydand• you know if ye are ordered tc si^n it, wg are not bound tc obey it # ̂ no said t think it v:ould be tetter for you all if you sirn. you have seen rjen put to deaths» V*e were ordered into the trucks and vent back to supervise the rjovenent into the i^irracks square. •^revinriton and aale v/ere _nct tried, I would say the 4 v;ere tried• Later ve had rien cau^_t for atter.?)tin^ they did {-o through sone form of court i^Drtial, but there court nartial or anything of that nature at this sta^e # that none of to escape and had not been any Otie Lavement of the whole of the troops into the Darrack square yas coripleted on the n i ^ t of 2 Sept. selarang iprrack Square has the normal barrack acccmxjdatioii fcr a British troops recular unit, it has its store, nesses, kitchens, oiid accomodation for approxiiiately 45° T-^re v;ere over l6C00 put there. On 3 Sept» th^ cocxxuiders were sent for for a further discussion with the Japanese at their cv/n liq»s 0 i^ain they asked why would TO not obey their orders # tしe question v;as asked, this an order? *.;ill you らive it to us in uritin^?» They said, but it is an order*" said, •"Yes, but ye have our duty to perforri, and unless ycu can こive us this in ；vriting - and if you do that, v/e do r.ot consider it binding, anyhow - v;e do not propose tc obey any of your instructions in this regardパ Tl'iey then allowed us to leave• Fron then, in the next 2 cr 3 days, v/e rerc in frequent conference v;ith HoIa nkang. who v;as alx;ays aocciii^anied by pzc.solzi 球：LO I7AS staff officer to the General # okane tried to point cut to us the futility of what v/e were d o m e , lie said he ln"Tiany cargai^ns and had had a staff appcintnent in the last war when we had been allies, and he felt \?e_Eer_e doiru r •； no f :ooa and would please si^iu He r,ot a but ve a^ain discussed 77ith then the question cf ai^endTinc Evidentiary D。 cl ^eirt jj. 5Q5S» 5 the forn, but they refused to consider any corqproraise or alteration to the forn. ‘ p̂art fron the conferences with the japs, the Gorxianders were in practically continual conference durinc the whole period• The healtl of the troops in the square was beconin^ an ir^^ortant factor* There wa»( an alariuino increase in the nuriber of dysentery and diphtheria cases and to have remirxed in the circumstances Liuch longer r/ould have neant the loss of iiiost of the people T/ho uere there 0 “"bout nidnijit we Lad a conference and decided, tc safe life, it would be better if v;e a/yeed to issue tho order« ne retired for tho ni^ht cn that decision. Early the next uorninし、okane colic a£;ain to sec us« it v/as apparent during; this ccnforence that tho Japanese were very worried and instead of adhering to our decision of overnight f ?;e contirxued to ask then tc amend this forn or ^ive a firn order® He went away to see Gen # Fuyuke and later, on returning, said that they would issue an crder 9 They asked for the return of their orderrio^ 7. v/hich yas dated 31 “、 It cane back later v;ith another order f which didn«t 3ay that we uere to si^n of our own volition but ordered every rO T J to siじn this forn. That was also dated j l a n d v;as nuiibered 7« It was pretty clear it vras a trick, but at that sta^e, we saw no pcint in raising that• Col^ llolnes iimediately made a declaration to the effect that the order no« 7 dated 31 Aug® had been withdrawn and substituted by this further order 0 ue also_had a copy of the original No. 7 order nade and had that attested to. During the period v;e were in the £arrack SQU^^e 11c rations v/liQtever uere allowed to be supplied to the po'7 and rujoike had しiven an order that no rations v;ere to しo to the hospital。 At first, it was deemed tc put all the patients in the hospital into the square # マ:e m d e representations about that and he subsequently allowed the hospital to remiii, but he issued an order that no food was to じo to the hospital or the r。:，incarcerated in the square, ^he hospitalしot food because of the deliberate misunderstanding of the Japanese order by Jai'.-]es f of the British /jrnjŷ who was interpreter at Japanese i-tt̂ 's. lie was told in Japanese to send the hospital truck back to Singapore and he nisunder stood that and sent ther.i tc the h o s p i t a l . n i s reward for that fron the ；Taps ras that they thought about executing hir.i f but nothing happened. As tho order had been issued with the Japanese signature on it ordering us to si^n the forn, v;e proceeded tc order the various forrja- tions,ムs the Australian coinander, I could not, in the circunstances, accept col. Holmes書 order to do so, and I issued uy own order that all Australian troops would si^n the forn. Before doinじ that I addressed then, explained the whole cf the negotiations, and expressed the. opinion that the nere fact of rjukin^ the jap change his m n d over the issue of the order f v/as, to me, a rjoral victory. ^videoatiary Document # 5058* • They then allowed us to re syne our n o r m l quarters, but the follcT/inj day took auoy quite a considerable ainotint cf the accoixiodati Even so y v:e could not cor^lain abcut the accoi^ijodation as it waa quite adequate. Fuyuke hiraself did not ccime into the negotiations person- ally, in the Japanese ^i^r, no natter v:ha.t the business ni^it be 5 you never f at any tine f see Q Japanese General, Order 1>to» 7 was signed by Okasaki, Japanese staff officer for Fuyuke. I don't knov/ of any other specific atrocity in the way of executions or m s s punishnents of that kind in which I was perscnally concerned, but, prior to rjy talcing coixiand, the Japanese infcrosd us that a nunber cf Australians had been executed for atteniptixi^ to escape That was about i.prcli or “pril 42o I knov;1 or 2 cf the men shot cai^e fron 18 rn 0 Thoy infcrDed Australian nq that these nen had been executed and £;avc their nanes^ じe T7€re able to save the diphtheria cases caused by the Selaran^ square incident, it is difficult to say in the dysentery cases as tliey r/ould O o into hospital, and whether any deaths were caused in tb:t regard by the selcxaニじ incident 9 it is hard to say ft no one actually died on the square.マe nere not allowed to evacuate any or tc hospital fron tho SQ.uare 0 v;e were forced to keep all the contagious cases there• as far as the^^i.F. v/es concerned, r/e did take in a radical tean # でg had a hospital of sorts tlxcre モo troat thcn # Tho Senior W was Col # j 9 Glyn rhite. The food issued by the Japanese in Chanじi canp v.ras never sufficients It ccmenced to decrease fron the raddle of i]2 f and it becaue practically a starvation diet• i:ithout the use of Boney obtained by corxiandeerin^' officers' pay and a snail aiiount fron the trcops, and ；jrcwinし cur own vegetables, it would have been Impossible for anybody to have lived on the focd # m njy case, I was 15 stone t and in the years, 1942-3-49 I was 9 stone 2 lbs e 工 know of a case cf a Lian of l6 stone dropping to stone d That uas practically general, ryerybody uould be at least one third under xiei^hts Diseases occurred which v:ere attributed by the i^dical officer to mlnutritioria T-tmy jot beri beri« Also it y/as neccssary to eat potato tope and a {-roen rjeod called »byen« a Tyen is a very fibrous weed, jt is comparatively pleasant ^ith rice, on account of the fibre in it it caused considerable dana^e to the intestines, it caused a lot of stornch trouble. I attribute a lot cf the duodenal ulcer cases that we dealt with to the diet,, r:e et ^ nuraber cf cases cf pellay?a f which is naliiutrition in an extrene forn. in the end we had apprcximtoly 300 Australians in a special rialiiutrition r;ard. They were the nen who had lost v/ei^ht badly a ̂ ̂ he rD in choree cf that ward was Jtijor Bruce Jiunt of perth. vje were trying very hard to aujnent the evidentiary D o c m m t # 3058• •food, but even with the auひmentation v/e did arrange, j^jor Hunt told ne I could anticipate a very jreat nunber of then dyiiiG tho next 4 weeks• That is just imodiately prior to the Japanese capitulation. The food, plus the living conditions, brought on q considerate aix)imt of skin trouble； dernatitis, scabies t things like that. The Japanese provided us with very siiall quantities of dru^s, in the year.： 1942-3 jot 2 lots, one in each year, but it was totally inadequate• liiey told us they could not obtain quinine or atebrin theuselvec and that they could not obtain certain othor medical supplies, v.ten the capitulation of the Japanese cai.,e f r/e discovered in sinc a P。re a factory nakinこ the very thinじ we had been crying out for for years. I think they could have supplied us uitli ncre rice. had sufficient rice in stock to see us through tc January next ye^r when tliey capitulated, on their scale cf issue® I think they could have issued us v/ith m r e fish. Tl^t is plentiful about the place. Up to ニbout li^xoh this year their o\m troops v;ero fur better supplied than we \iexe 9 but fron i^irch this ye』enwards f they were on exactly the sane rations as we v:ere, but the Japanese soldier had an opportunity of buyiii^ 9 rhich rus not available to us except through a Japanese canteen• ijd could じc ii-to Singapore and have a neal of fowl, if he Lad the i^oney. Lack of protein i7as our m i n trouble. r r o started our own gardens, which were subsequently extended, with their permission, to 120 or 130 acres• ::e laid it cut and it beaxie a very aood show. Z^rly 1943 or late 1942, one cf the visiting Japanese Generals saw it and thought it would be ^ood for propaganda and they took it over0 Fron then on they controlled the garden f although we vcrc still the technical advisers.ぶュoi^st other things we had planted v/ere several thousand pav/ paw trees # just as the paw paTys v/ere coning ready for use tiie Japanese cciifiseated then all. -/a explained ue were only ^ o w i n ^ paw paws for hospital patients. They said it was General Sito's order that they be supplied to the Japanese A ) The lad in cliartje of the ⑶时饥: TCis a Korean v;hcse name 1 forget« lie spoke very ^ood znelisli^ ';e told kin the number of really seriously ill patients v;e had in hospital and he arranged to cive us paw paus for those patients. The rest they took and distributed amongst tho Japanese officers. • * * • 睐 Ulitii 170 rjoved to the cliarici Gaol area the accomodation they supplied us was generally reasonable, but at tines it was nost unreasonable.ムt one period wc had over 10^000 who remined in the Chanti area and we were oost overcrowded, “t one sta^e in ry own unit we had a Barrack block which normlly accorsaodated. the usual Coy. Coattinder»s office and QJ! store and ljO troops and wo had 998 in that block, rjith the novenent of forces fron early ムpril 1 9 4 3 the dcccrnoda. •cion was there in space, but that was a l l . m a house occupied by a rxitisl: officer and his family we would have to put 150, very closely ividentiary Docunent ガ packed tocether • i^ich rxm would only じet 18 inches of si<ace, but he would have space to lie down* However f the ordinary kitchen in tiae house would be useless • our m i n trouble was the cookinc® Tb.ygave us ncthii^,in the way of kitchen gar. we had to scrounge all that ourselves # t^o japs issued us with no rjsssir心 cear or anything to assist us in cooking nov;ever« TO had officers in the area who were periianently stationed there before the war and they could tell us where certain things were, and v;e either c,ot Japanese permission tc ^et then or just took then.マhen ve asked for oessinc or kitchen utensils fron the Japs, it was useless unless v;e could say we knew v/here they were in Sinどapore， r！}ho ro”.，organisations would let us co and get thG stuff but we rore never issued uith any. All TOマ v/ere concentrated in Ciie-n^i Gaol and an area outside the Gaol. nunber in the Gael T/as j800 and it wont dovm to 3000 # Itie G^-ol v/as built to hold 600 personnel,35° Asiatics and f)0 Europeans c That ix>ve tock place in i?iy 19t4» 厂e had biiilt an aerodrone for the— japs at clxan^i^ The Air yjrijy said they v/anted the whole cf a certain area witnout any r0̂ 7 and the rOマ had to 乙et out. î td there been severe attacks cn the aerodrone v;e ni^ht have lost troops, but I an of the opinion that tlie novo vas only just another instance of ^bloodiness". On the credit side of that ix>ve, they noved the civilian internees out of the Gaol and ve were q.uite happy over the iiove on account of that • There were sone 3 to 4^00 civilian internees, arioriost Y/Lcn -ere over 1000 T7onsn # These wonen were incarcerated in one portion of the Gaol and for sone nonths they uere never allowed out of the Gaol. ！Sien they v;ere allowed out of the Gaol for a cr;in # r[！he conditions they lived in v;ere frightful.マ。uere quite happy about that :.r>ve because it ueant tliey were laovin^ into better quarters in Singapore. For 2 years the Japanese ^ave us no boots or any thin{； tc repair the boots V7e had. Then they decided they \vOUld repair boots for us. asked that they not attenpt to repair then but that they 0 i v e us the leather. 'jjh.ey dicl that for a period, although never in sufficient quantities• Later they decided tliey would ^et the boots repaired for us To do that they had some natives uorking for then in Singapore• ^here soirie propaganda in the fact that these people T?ere repairing po：； boots. For a period they coi^elled us to hand the boots to them for repair 9 v:e never received back one tenth of the boots sent in for repair, so ye decided not to send theci in but to repair them ourselves with rubber from tyres or a locally made rubber• repaired the boots with those # liiey issued a few Japanese rubber boots but there would not be one man in 20 get a pair, jn the hears half of 1943 邸d the whole of 1944, 9 out of 10 of the men going to work would be wearing wooden clogs which we raade in the camp ourselves« '.lien the capitulation ca^ they issued sufficient boots for 1 pair per man, but not in the right sizes• They were all Japanese boots of s m l l sizes. •7© had sufficient clothing given us on l6 Aug. to iaake an issue evidentiary Docui-jent 斗 ii〇583 一 一 of at least 1 singlet and 1 pair of japanese-mae shorts per man, but in a〕l the years before •： cid •'こs Lney didn Jt have 3iiy u They always proidsoa to give us hats, but they never did so® As soon as the show つas over they rare able to iscue us with khaki drill hats fron our ovn stores v/hich they had all the tiine 9 but had not issued to us« the v;ar was over the japs issued boots 3 shorts, and singlets and some Hritish-c-ype hats d The biggest- task the men had was the job described by the japs _ rTT^vr^r^fryfi"!厂v;o had not beon doing very long before it took on the appearance of b3coming an aerodrOLxC a That job :.nvolved. two to 、 fBxeS I'iil丄es niching f and wcriimg for n.:ne TTours^ The men were away normally for 10̂ - xo 11 hcurs 0 The _:mDane3e。not the roruans g were the work suparvisers, Th^y T.ere particularly harsli and very brutal 5 At this stage General AnuiHTA was in charge ̂ Ijepr e sen tat ions were made to hin on the score of brutal treat- inent ? long hours a and hard v;ork 5 brought a little alleviation。 That, I think, v;as the biggest job, because it was a continuous job taking a v;hole year 0 At the time the men had no boot 3 and no clo thing てe reached the stage of having to withdraw every pair of boots from any inan at all in hospital or doing any indoor job 3 thereby permitting iDen going out to r/ork to have some boots - some of them9 anyway, pron January this year the number of parties all known as x-porties yere dis- tributed all over Singapore ！ and two of the parties at johore B^hru 9 capital of johore f v/ere employed in digging jap defences> and in several camps nion worked as long as 14 hours a day 0 I cannot give you any inforiuation as to those camps — ェ am only quoting Iron verbal and written reports furnished to me later„ There \;as another party which v/ent away early in i^irch 1942 to a place called Blakang They were under the coraiand of l^Hjor Cakey, of 2/18 Enり and they remined there until the capitulation® They had a very bad tine for the first year or 18 incnths, but again i cannot guote fron my own laiouledge d ェ suggest that 赂 j o r Oakey might be able to assist you there 0 T-^y did caiTying and stacking of bombs« jn that caxnp P one m n ras drov.TLedc \ --八*" Captain F ふ St^hl,fron: Brisbane (probably in victoria now) v/as in charge of one of the very bad ca^ps? Gapfcain :;alker of the 26th B U v/as in charge of the worse of the tv;o caiuprj at johore sahriu Captain Duffey of 2/30 Bn« vras another cf cur officers at that camp. I__saw jap military plan.es using ihj aeroclrone when it was built • There v/ere no visits by anyone at all interested in our welfare f There were niany inspections ty high-rcjaKing ofi'iccrs but never anybody we were allowed to talk to 0 There v/as no visit by any representative of the international Red cross• *;e laade repeated requests but nothing was done, in the early days of our o;;n rjed Cross representative rvidentiary Document 5058c 10. was permitted to go to Singapore to talk to H Schweitzer, the inter- national Yied cros3 delegate ? to arrange advices of money for the purpose of getting drugs and. medicines^ but at the end of 192'2Ihis permission was withdrawno rron the day V7S i/ent there requests were m d e for the inter- national Ked cross delegate to visit the,can^, I continued until the end uith this rsq.uest but it was never gantedc エ have since talked with Schweitzer and he tells lxj that he h丄mse]で T?as under surveillance s and that he had his face slapped on a number of occasions• The Japanese r^mds demands of certain nuniberG of men to \;ork« The most you could hope for by r epre cen tat ions was a conipronise as to the nuiDber e it frequently necessitated sending out fit r^n to work for the japs and putting the less fit rien on v/ork within the camp itself. For instance 5 the japs did not ever regard cooks as either necessary or as hard workers, and for a long tiiue for the first tlireo years they did not recognise cooking as v:ork 0 ‘liat we did vras tliis - we combed out the orderly room and light dircy personnel and put them on to work© Finally we reached the stage where everyone working in the canip itself was actually unfit to uork, and a proportion of te men proceeding to work uere to a Ldnor degree unfit for that TOrk 0 B^t we v;ould rather gt our sick men working under ourselves and put tho others out to v;ork* Becausc of the Japanese order, sick men uere working inside tiae ccug)。 The japs actually made nunerioal demands for labour which could not be filled without r:jaking sick luen izork in the canp« in representingtLis to the japs I always said that there yere no nen in tho camp fit to work, and pointed out that v.orkin^ on the neagre rations and under the living conditions provided was an offenco against the Conventione I did all of the represntations in those ca?es. I always warned the jape that when the v/ar T;ac over ue could not forget it all. ""C LBintaincd that nobody \vac fit to vork 0 pollG of priconcrc and cacualtioa T7crc supplied to the jape v/ithin the initial cix WGOkc^ or about tLat tino„ ^hcy v/ere supplied to the jape once through my own conu^and ； and on another occasion Captain Thomas, T7ho had be on their ：只 interpreter, ucs teing cent to Tokio and he took a cet of separate ro.lls of prisoners and casualties« エ have epoken to Lira on the telephone じince, and ho said Le had delivered then 、in rpnkio, and he wondered if thoy over got Saci; to Australia© Froiii time to time the jape i^ore given advice as to cur casualties, as a routine mtter« During the M'nolc period, mq wore periiiitted to send four postcards rith 25 words on c The la^t one wacj either June cr July this year, in addition, Australian prisoners v;ere allowed to send during 3.943 broadcast message hone« At that time I had 10>000 r^n under lae, and the lyidentiary Docuiaent 广 11. whole 103000 messages uere^deixiandcd at one and the sanie tine, The rocult uas fEat 'llthou^ii the .Tapa usea four bcadcastin^ stationsV people 111 Australia rliCBlVM^&jjreless iaesaa^i^-froin jLlielr ne-gL-of^kj.n who in 一 one"insoHroe ixaCTl)een dead nine months before the actual date of the 一 b^oaacasx lODssage© it took the japs about 丄8 months to send the messages a Of those four-tt) five written inessages which I sent, two reached w people I persc.aally received 51 coiinunications from ^ustralia. some were better, and yefc a nuijibcr did not receive any 9 The whole Jap system of receipt and despatch of nxiilG wac on irpocsible ono 0 \:o were getting letters for men v;ho て,，ere- in Kcrea and ols3\:h3re, oiid doubtless they were getting ours® jrirat m i l s for prisoners； British and Australian, Cctine to Singapore, and v;s requested and. received permission to sort the rxiil into proper bundlos。 These ve horded to the japs for distribution. で;e bundled it for 3iriaa s Thailand^ japan and Bur urn • e put a label cn front where it v;as to go 一 yet we still got scnie of those bundles back in 1945。 Their syston of distribution v/as quite hopeless c For the first seven ncnths 5 the conxiand cf the prisoners of war on Singapore island ras under Lieut、，(.later captain) “bout late July or early August the first General v;as appointed - he was Ivpjor-G^'neral I'UKUYL* :'.'hen Fukuye cane tlie cang) coi:Taander was firstly dkasaki 0 There \;ere five in succession, including Qlcasakia others were T^ZUI;H, T i U U I E , and HJRA> and anotiier one whose nan エ forgets Tlio Mijor-General issued orders alonfc the normal military channels of commmication but very frequently the General staff officers uould proceed to p0V； and issue orders also, v.hich probably the caup comiiander or coix:andant would not Iziiov until r;c told hiiic jml^uyc was G0C FV;s in i^alaya and suriatrcu lie vas succeeded by General A i m n n A , followed by General SLlT0 o I understand that their chain of coix'^nd v;ent to i>oio,and not through the noraal military chain of coixiand so far as things concerning prisoners of r/ar were concerned‘、 it was competent for a combatant General to demand prisoner cf v;ar laboiilr and it was coi^pefcent for the general ccixcianding to reject that。 rfc vas corpoten for the General conmanding PT/s to lay down terns of work and hoars« エ know that, because on one ccasion ye were representing the ouesfcion of brutalities on the aero- droLiec The then camp com^mdant ^ekuhashi tool: tlie m t t e r up with General saito and the result uas that an order was issued that no _ xrisoner would work for the .Tar)s next day® incidentally 9 that stood until 1000 hours, and then another order coiic out that they had to start work_ Anotiier tine v;hen a complaint was nade they vore given a holiaay next d^y. s〇 the General conmandin^Liist have Lo.d soue control over prisoners, v;here he could resist tlie crdcrs of the combatant General. There was a G0C Singapore. NOIIIED^UAG.JCIs nis headquarters ras y a f f l e j : e ccnriiandcd Singapore and portion of m l u y a as conbatant Lvidentiary Document jh 5058. r 1 2 a cパ z General„ ne was under THiillKIr lie was responsible for the operational •side of Singapore, and carried that responsibility over U3 e General Saitouould deal direct; v;ith Tol:io e I do not know Suite's imniediats superior in Tokio, I personally know Fulcuye, ‘ブcuiiurci and saito 0 j regard Fukuye as the ;jri1 nnrir "” r i r i n T 1 - i n T T n つ•” coLinand _of trooi:so i^rimura I do not think had any cins of comiission； it ？/as just xhax he v/as an old nan obviously brought back fron the reserve and took his job vory lightly 0 S-ito 一 xhere are no instances of brutality by saito himself。 ne in uy opinion v;as the best of the three. *;hen our representations did get to him, actually through his oTm staff t he T/ould always either act or send back iind say tixat he was not going to do it or «ould not do it。 Fukuye never saw prisoners in their own quarters. I do not remember him ever being OIL his feet in the camp,, Arinmra frequently rode round the caLjp in a car； he spoke Hn4ish very well cmd on a nunber of occasions talked to prisoners• vas round tlie canp at lease three times a \ieek9 參 I regard then in that order as criminals - pukuyc: Arirnura. Saito• T^o five canp coimandants wero carrying; out orders• in no instance except that of Takehashi did I know of any of the ccxip comcjiders attempting to punish prisoners cf v:ar.. ^he other four would a.l.ways go and rattle their swords and say, ^；：0 ̂ 1 1 leave it to you m T^i'^li^shi's case, he p u n i s h e d j b ^ i ^ J m i i G Q l f厂 - -一 - . f T ;;e have cases where Takuliaslii handcuffed a couple of Australian and as far as he uas concerned they stayed like that fcr a wcek fc 3ut v/e had a skeleton key to the handcuffs aid tock then off at nifet • lie himself uould not talce then off or poriaission to let then _be _ ノ taken off •ユ n6 s o S e t m e s suv; \:hat he considered xjlxs an offence and r;ould clap a iifji into gしol。On unother occasion he handcuffed a British chap to the iron gill of his cell 0 Tlル handcuffs were on like that for days® lie was the only canp coixxondGr who ever aycrded punishjuents hincelf - the others, v;ell f none of then \/ere really difficult to ^et on witi“ T i W -.vere dcin^; their job and they had their orders* on the question of numbers cf r.ien required for work, Tしzuui ^ave UG a very reasonable hearing, once エ discussed the mt-ter of physical fitness; he pulled out of his drawer a graph shoT:ing the situation as エ had it; ho was in a position to discuss it 0 He would aluays coLipromise® TLe only one that I regard as a nasty type v;as Takahashi - yet you will find that rjost prisoners will say he ras a ^ood o n , Th^y did not know him9 llo ptiid rje the conplii:Biit of saying once that he would not deal v;ith evidentiary Document “ • 4 13- any longer - that エ was far too arrogant. ue introduced a colonc; 4 noaed i T ei7ey, an Diglislunan 0 g a i n s t orders i-eney accepted fEc job of T&^re sent at ive o^fir^r 一 for rhich lie has been placed uncier arrest and T7ill_bo coirrt-mtiT-z iallej at Ô：：̂ T ^ ^ ^ s i i i introduced I 丁 T h e result was that although rev/ey was bad, the troops did not realise that Tokレhashi was behind, that move, and that it v/as not done for the benefit of the prisoners of war 0 Of the c^mp comanders, the only one エ regard as indictable is T ^ k ^ a s h i a The average jap soldier that v;c sau in the central adiiinistratio] P".;s uere net the people i/ho committed the offences. v;ere the japs out with the work parties uho were brutal。 'Qf course, you £,ct the odd bashing or tv/o within the carap. But tliey r:ere cases where you could actually nail the Jap responsible and within a couple of ninutes you could protect s pinning hia, Generally speaking, the canp connanaers reacted very favourably to this question of hitting prisoners* Sone guards have had a few hits at ne but probably エ think as face-savers,,エ personally at one stage had 40： 000 men that saved me fron hitting。 They once beat up i:iy interpreter for saying just what エ said - he uas a chap naaed pavey, a British ixoio T-i^t also v/as face- saving on their part。 it was, they felt r safer to hit him, and not nie^ ? t h e imtter \:cis t h e at that tine,ェ believe, V/hen we got orders for F Force to ix)ve subject of a conference uith the jap conioander % Tazuiriio I asked where these ix^n v/ere going to w o r k .ェ do not think he ansuered that day. }]o t he did not。 ne said he could not answer that question,, subsequently - next day - he eaid tliey \iere not going to work Then on the question of the type of wcrk and the numbers required 5 we て/ere told that the laen were going awcy to nev/ canps r to a place i/;h.ere foccl v;as inuch better, and the nen would not have to work. T^zuiii told me this. Then the nuxiber of fit nen was not enough„ "The matter v;as referred to the carap comiander 3 i/lio said ve could include : 30 r>er cent of sick c That raised the doubt as to \vliat the men ^cre going to do。 Again T^zuLii was asked about it。 ne said they rare not going to work; that they v/ould have a canteen and that ue could send up our doctors and have our oun hospital。 ne said, ”エ七 \:ill be a carrp just like this, except that 3.0U will not be in this typo of building but in country nhere the climate is better and the food plentiful,» Count Terauchi inspected us twice,_ on^e soirio jap royalty came but v/e were not ̂ permitted to look 0 Tojo once tog in S i ^ ^ o r c but never came out to see tlie prisoners • As far as vq 7;ore ccncerned, these infections were not inspections of us or our quarters d T."e called taem t^oat parades*. v:ere lined up on the road and a couple of trackloads of armed jap soldiers come along 9 then a car v;ith six irjen ariLod in the back,, then ci big Liotor car v/ith a high personage in i七,follo^d by Deny other armed cars. i T obody over walked abcut the cemps。t July this yeeir 5 /(n只 • • へ . u : : / r/j-yci'̂ nc メ レ.,.ニ。.-. t Ttagalci cane out end was the first and only .Tat)て;ho over did this - he ©nt t> see the liojgiiiii； he actually stood c.t the corner of the road and the hospital was pointed out to him, Tto japs had ordered an officers f party, and エ-jent; amjiiQ the 20 to 3° officers in the hope of being able to say something P But ho aia not _look at u s y although obviously ve had been sent there on soiyiebody ‘ s orders» エ certify that the abeve evidence is true and correct «> (Signed) GAIISGIIA!了. Brigadier« Taken and sworn before LB at ) Sydney on Thursday 22 i^venber 1945 c ) (Signed) Ccnniissioner. Evidentiary DocuLiont Hc# 3。57B_ Itie international i/SLlitary iribunc：! for the Fば ^L.st c THE H T S D STATES OF iJ.SP.ia: ijp OTHERS V a .uJlîK'：：： '.̂ dcio and ofcl:crs r 人？；F I D V I T . T : r, ILILJ5 JOHN C.J.'PBHLL GUIST,； of U レscelle.:; Avenue t Toorak, in the crbut^rrf -yarC-toria^- r nkr. ontli-̂ aixd say：一 エ V；しs Acting CcLxr-ssion^r for tho Australian fled Cross Society in j I i/en-fc to iv'̂ iluya 111 October, 19411 attaciied to the I.ifetl.. D i v i s i o n , ム B y previous uriMigu.ieirt, vc vcrc extending ムustralirji Red Cross benefits to the British Forccs 0 f I bec^nc G prisoner of uar on thc^ljtli February, 1942.,ェ spent tlie rholc of 可 tine us a prisoner of rcr しtr^ttiGr ベーilitc^y prisoner of wc.r cuii-p, cxcept for three ucieks at River yclley Coi..p» I was ucdically unfit until septoubcr,1942，and in that intorvoimc period, n vr.E. Roberts carricd cn as “ctinとCoirlssioner. r j On the 31st December,1942, ITc Roberts wus arrested by the Japanese and ii^prisor.od in the gacl “t Outrcu. Ro^d, I took charge of the Unit next day 9 j i:.iacdiately rr.de contact r;ith the Ca“p COL^aiduint»s office und intcrvic;:ed Lieutenant T-naka. i ェ put before liii一 the uliolc posiion しs rGuards Red Cross, quoting clcuscs of the Convention, cliich I offered tc quote to hiu in full # H^ stated that he hud ll copy cf tho Convention and rxidc notes of the clauscs that I had q u o t e d •ェ irjfori cd hix.: that WG uslcod him for no extra privileges other then laid aoxm in the Convention, On boiii^ csk^d whether the Japanese had Ginned the 1929 prisoners of "ur Convention, he would ^ivo z.c no definite ansv:er. Hc\;cver, I found fron subsequent cxpcriencc that they would quote clauscc out of it i7hcn it suited thc:.; # ェ quctedl tc hiu fron the i-ia^uc pules cf 19' and fro;:; rtiat is knorrn as the Hcd Cross Convention of 1929. He took notes of these, but never denied thc.t they a p p l i e d .ェ also uade applications in TiTitir^ to the Japanese, but written applications were quitu useless fipoy never on uny occasion ancv/crcd any letter that I wrote to tLenu I alvrays had to felloe it up personally』d tlicy took so little interest that very cf ton, when I obtained し n interview, they would not be r.blc to find the letter that had bocn v;rittcn to then on the subject # \ j yas scut by Lieutenし± Tし山しとし to sec Captain Kachisuka f uho uppocrcd to be “djut^nt to General “rixurこ• TĴ roufili his officc I v;us pemitted tc uuke contact :ith schucizer, tho internetionc.l Red cross DclGcute f T-;ith ulxou, |H^chisui:a inforoDd :x f he had been in touch previously # I had L^de ipplications for ooney through Red Cross chcnncls end Hacliisuka eventually Evidentiary Document No. 5Q57B* 2. 1'informed me that I c.vald obtain 丄}>0,000 dollars from lSc9 schweizer on a promissory note。 Ttas riion̂ y ェ eventual]y obtained in 1,'Brch 1943- LAter on .in J.943？ I able to obtain another 50,000 dollars, having been tolcl tlie Lieantime ••ha', tar つっろ3ナ5o". of m riey yj^b not one for the Japanese, j i^Lo merely acted as interuiedii'^ri-s, bu,:- if schweizor was でillinし to lend j and I was willing to borr て ！ w a s ぃ11 there wしs to ita They ^ave the I impression th^t they would gant .iacili'r^ es for a continuation to the otair f ing of loans t but later refused it,| ^ne particular Japanese who refused it was Lieutenant Shimokしuarra， He ha-i taken H^-chisuka^s place about the er.う of April, 1943® ‘ On being refused 1'ac.ili-ie^ to obtain further loans, I ".ntec^ iewed ^.imoi^v； irra on mary occu,sions r point in^; out to him the ixx-^em fcr Red cro3s financial assistcince for the §ick and wounded and prisoners of war generally, particularly in the absence of any re^ulbr supply of Red Cr^ss goods from outside, but did not meet with ai.y success. Eventually, the Japanese sent for ^{Hjor Shean, who uas the Liaison officer betTOen the camp and the Japanese camp o f f i c e •放 was informed by T^^k^ t '-o USG their own words, that they could not observe me any longer. because 1 hud been token vrith the fighting forces• J I^jor Sl-ean asked if they hed any personal objection to me- and their reply was tiierc vius nothin u like that about it v He challenged them with a change of face and asked T7hetlj.er it Fas ui instruction from higher up and cn whose I instruction tLis attitude was adopted. 〔T&n̂ lこ钍 said it vus the opinion of t General iirnmra. j-je then said if there uus a s^iss or Portuguese ^ representative in Singapore, it would be different• I^jor s^ean then repeated our oft-made request for sctoeizer to come into ttiecamp and do ordinary Hod Cross v;ork. Th^y s<.id they wanted this request in writing* It was ^iven to them in writ in し by Colonel Holmes, who wus Coran^nder of the troops in Cla&n^i, and had taLen General percival *s place• Later they sent for Colonel Holmes and told him that they could net acknoKled^o I schv/eizcr because he hud lived in £inMPore prior to the capitulation unci j rni^ht be biassed towards prisoners of war. There r;erc no representatives of any other society, but the Australian in the caiup, and as Acting ( Comissioner エ hafi to make Red Cross representations on behalf of prisoners of :;ar of all nationulitieg, | After the refusal to allov m。to obtain furti funds, I vras never % a i n granted an interview witii any Japanese official. They issued an instruction tliat from then on all Red Cross matters were to be done by correspondence tlirou^ colonel Holies. I vjrote several letters to s^hTveizer through this medium, but learnt from him after the Japanese aurrender that he did not get thorn. Appixrently the Japanese had no intci tion of forrrardiiitj； them, j / From November 1943 onv/ards our money beiii£； exhausted, tlie pur- j chc.se of supplementary rations for hospital patients camc to on end, and j r/hen our small stock of foodstuffs and comfortc became exhausted in 19441 * the work of the Australian Red Cross unit practically ccased, I At no time was ^od cross allov/od to function in the camp,except in a very liciited manner, and 11c offer of facilities ever came from the Japanese side. Jinythin^ that v:e ；7crc allowed to do uas only after representutions had been made to tl.cLi for permission, and as previously stated, our activities practically OUUIG to on end う” w^^.h Evidentiary Doturicnt 5鄉 7 B . 机’ 3 . ^ j As far as Lieutenant shimokauarra ivas concernod f エ had close f dealings rith him, including the arrangement of a loan of 5° 1000 dollars tLrou^;li the international Rod Cross Delegate, on account of the Austra- lian Cross society • However f he t;oald give xne no facilities to らo in Si^dj^pore and sec tho international Delegate', stating that this vus tiie Japanese rules, no brought the money out to the C^Jnp and エ signed tlie documents there• HG would し i v e me no facilities to しo out of the cainp at all to make purchases • I took up with him the Question of doin^ somtthin^ for the prisoners cf the F.empoi in Outram Hoad G a o l , a ski permission to send foodstuffs and clothing to tlicm from our stocks in Clian^i, but he rrould not jrant pormission for this. He explained that th C ^ l nas under ircijpoi adiainiGtration and arrtxigcinents would havo to be niado tl-roi^li the jupancse Hi^h Comraand, cs tho POW administration could not approccL the CoiiTdandant of the Outr^mnoad Gaol direct • I brou^Lt tLi. iiiatter up i/ith him on several occasions, but Le eventually refused to listen to further requests, no admitted tiiat the personnel v/ere in a bad condition v/hon they cしnie out of the 乙 a o l , but said Le could not do any— tiling about it, I also su^estcd to kim on one occasion, in an endeavour to び t over the difficult:、that lie could let the international Dde^Cite knar; tLat there r:ere prisoners ol uar in the outram Roud G&ol, and surestod that call on the ^aol comandant to see whether there vius cinytLin^ lie could do for them. He v;oula not do this とn<i appeared to be ,more frightened of the Keinpci than ne \rcro. f shimokauarra had in his * office a copy of the ped Cross Convention in Japanese. On •ne occasion, t;lien discussing Red Cross wonoy 77ith him, he said it v/as a matter betweer the international ixlo^^tc and isyself • エ infermed him thuit I knew that Schueizer could locji me ixionoy しJid thct J でじs quite willinし to borrow it on beL^lf of the Australian Rod Cross society f as it vus vory nocessary t kelp the prisoners of vur generally us ijuch as possible• j had been e:rtendin C: tho service in tho ocanp and instead of buying only supplementar rations for hospital deniunds t I hud been allcn.'in乙 a suall amount per head to purci.use rations for ull prisoners of vrar in tho CCJIID, He took ae to task over this and エ quoted the Ecx^ae Rules and Rfcd Cross Convention and stated that the l}ed Cross society looked after all prisoners of war and not only the sick ones, eo referred to Lis copy of the convention und started to read it. ^ftcr q uliilc t he Sdid,稱マ。TTiil put that airay f and pl-ced it on the sliolf in his office. He found out thしt it did not support his contention. Tl-is attitude uas typical, not only of shimo- kc.Tyarra, but of all japtmcsc uith uLom I had contact # Tlicy would guotu tl.e Conventions, even the prisoners of war convention uhich thoy had not s i ^ e d , T7hon it suited them, but r;ould put it aside whon it- did not.. • ScLueizcr, the international Deleらしtc^ was never permitted to visit the CliviHoi C^ip until cSter the surrender of the Japanese, when orders vcro rcceivcd from Tokyo tha.t International Dole^atos must b allowed to function. I made immy represent at ions for ir. Scliireizer to be allovxd to visit the cしjiip, us clso did the 人 胃 authorities,but rc could never obtain permission either from tho c ^ p Coraiandant ‘ s office or from the Tie^dquorters of the P07 Adini strati on • }JT. Schreizer also made ropresentations without succesg^ As far as n scliweizer iaas concerned Evidentiary Docuioent No. 3. エ think lie tried very hard. to. carry out his duties as an international Dele^utc, apprcaoh.in^ tlie Japanese in Singapore on his otrn account quite frequently on beliull' of the prisoners of war and civilian internees. H^ rras allowed to do slightly move for the internees than for the prisoners of war, but like the；ム,ユsirrfilian "Red Cross society unit, was never allowed anj^thinG approaching adec.uato facilities. He appeared to me to be trying all the time, for し:xamp丄。^ ^b.on H^^iisuka left the pOW Aaninistratici^and took his place. f エ cし.11ら吋 on sb.iir'okowarra tliree or four days later, to inform hiin of T7hat had been -.na on in connection \rith Red Cross, pcirticulし rly between w > .zor and myself, and r;as told by him that there \ias no need to expicin as scliwoizor had already been in touch with him and explained everything. f Apart rron the inoney v:hich we v/ere able tc obtain through the international Red Cross, the following shipments rrere received from over- seas, in August f 1942, 230 tons of foodstuffs arrived on a returning diplomatic exchange ship from Portuguese East Africa, in September 1942 f l6$0 tons arrived on a second exchange ship, also from Portuguese jpst ^ r i c a ^ This vas put into two じ o - d o u n s in sin^^pore, and the Japanese ciQkod for a representative of the Reel Cross in the camp to しo down and supervise the? distribution, I vent in uith the British Arny representativ and stayed at the River valley pCH canip for necirly three week3. However, the Japanese did not really allow us to supervise the distribution. They laid dov;n a plan of allocation and all v. r o could do \?as to try and persuade them to molce a feu small alterations in this allocation, such as sending xcotq Mirnite to the civilian camp for tlie use of interned children. We could not persuade them to make any material alterationin their plan and appeared to be only there as a v;ay out for them if there nere any coniplai] in the future• - - - - j A further small shipment arrived in February 1944 which included medical supplies, v/e v/cre never supplied v:ith any lists other than Japanese ones of the total quantities in these shipments• so could not chc thorn properly. / Fith the exception of the September 1942 shipoont aentionea above Goods from these shipments wore just delivered into the cunqps on Singapore island by th& Japanese authorities, but we know that they used some niedicc supplies for themselves t as the greater quantity of these were kept by the Japanese A # D#M.S., ^ho deu.lt it out to us from tiiuc to time. weij^ht of the food parcels which arrived in February 11 pounds し r o s s , and they contained appro::inmtcly 8-ふ pounds of food» This shipment canie frou Goa in Portuguese s^st Africa and the only list which was held by the camp authorities uas one 么iven to one of our supply off ice- by a Japanese officcr f shoeing ロhut t;as delivered to the other camps and t the Japanese A.D.M f S, I understand that the supplying of this list uas qu an unofficial nutter und there appeared to be no particular reason why it should be ^iven to us, by this Japanese officer• A fmirth shipment of H^d Cross supplies arrived in March 19451 comprising Canadian f British and Ajnerican food parcels, a small quantity of dru^s and medical surpli.es and sobo clothino;# These supplies r;ere Evidentiary Document No, 5Q57B. 4. lianded over to the camp authorities, but as the Japanese rations were so scanty at the time, 'each POH in tho coiap tjus not handed out a parcels T^e parcels were broken do\;n and portioned out us an addition to rations, to make them l“st over a longer period• Those supplies cai:ie on a mercy ship fron Vladivostok, arranged by Hod Cross• Ti-ey vjcre distributed v/itliout reference to the international Delegate or xayself • As far as the inter- ne t ion al Delegate て.'as concerned, none of the international Red Cross ship- ments v/ere r of erred to hiri by the Japanese. working parties '.vere sent to sins^pore from Changi to handle this shipment• reported to ne that the v;hole of the supplies でere not distributed, some bein^ set aside, they thou^lit, for B u r m cjid suiuatra, and a portion left unallocated. a js far as I knew at the t i m , the Japanese had no means of ^©ttin^ these supplies to Buriija or suraatra, a i r m at that sta^e u^s practically cut of their control and their shipping position v;as very parlous, j The supplies were just left in store and in spite of represent at ions which v/ere m d e to them to have soiae of the supplies se>nt out to Clian^i Canp, as people vera dyin^ for want of proper food, tlie- Japanese uuid not conply uith tliis request« After their surrender, they sent these supplies to the Canap and other camps on Singapore islcnd, and generally tried to in£p?atiute this by making other supplies they had in store available and allot；in{； Mr. SchT7Cizer his dru^s, so th^t they could be delivered quicker* APon^ the supplies, in addition to tha Red Cross supplies, the Japanese released cheese f condensed milk and other comofilties which had been in Singapore since before its capture 9 which shows that they could have done a lot rx>re for us durins the period of our captivity, Tlie Japanese also sent out further medical supplies, of uliich ue liad been very short and uhioh they inferred us they could not supply, .T^ey had been in their Red Cross store in Singapore for soHfrjonths.J As far us roy personal treatment was concerned f it vrcis the saxie as that ineted out to any other officer, i feel that I nust repeat thut if 工 and other representatives of the Red Cross had not nude representations for permission to do Red cross ork,て:e would have been left in the cacip and ignored by the japuiese.ト丁。move evor came fron their side to facilitate Bed crocs uorl:. i.-'r. schweizer coiHoented on this to ije during a few Lioments v;e got together on our own 011 an occasion when H^chisuka took m© into Singapore•ムIso, thしt on no occasion had he seen any representative of the Japanese cross society there, we both had to deal vith authorities to whom Red Cross v:oi*k r;as Q side line <jnd V7ho regarded it generally speakino こs rather a nuisance, as far us I an aware, there was no Red cross representative in Maluya, and no representative of the Japanese- Red cross society ever visited the ctu^'i C^MP* On one occasion, I heard lyidentiary Document No. 5Q57B# 5- that a pov? Delegation uas corain^ from Tokyo to inspect the pow Canps. I made application to the Japanese caiop authorities to m e t the delegatici but the reply ^as that they v;ere not coning and ve did not see anyone • Suorn c'.t i/^lbourne in the state ) of yictoriu this the tenth day ) of October ) Before rje f (Signed) CAMPBELL GUEST. (Signed) S.E. ELDER. Commissioner of tho suprerrie Court of Victoria for taking affidavits• Evidentiary Docunent IN n'JPI^ZR of an Xn.vesti^atiori carried out at Japanese I^Llitary police Headquarters, in rospcct of civilian internees of the Sii--̂ Head 3 Singapore。 I, J"CHI. T LEONARD : 7ILS0N; TUo H k ^ Reverend Lcrd Bishop^cf Singapore, 'presently tei.^orarily rosidenb at Diniediii m ilie D o m m o n cf Hew Zealand IffiKE OATH 厕 2u,Y as follows r 1 0 エ was appointed Bishop of Singapore in _July 1941 arrived in Singapore in 19̂ 'J. w l i e rリ ' . n e c l oil丄 tJio surrender on jrob。l^th 2n エ renained in siriijcporc on pa 'c.].e till i-prc-h 1943? ^hen エ was interned at Cxian^i prison 3 t:ゾ上 a civilian intemnsnt Ganp命 3 , on October 17tli 1943 ;r was arrested by the Japanese I.拉litary police and taken to i.ilitary rolico Headquarters at the old Y.McC .A, Buildinc in S i n g a p o r e ,エ renainedl in this building until IJiy 26th 1944 ； w h e n エ uas released and sent to SIFI R0ュJ3 C-anp where the civilian intern- j rjent caqp at chan^i li^d been transferred, I reniained there until the Brit- j ish arrived in s i n L a P o r c in 人uこ:ust 1945 when エ l e f t for Australia, 4 . Durin u Auしust 1945 ほ 、 C o l l i n c e f the corxiandant of siニe Road interniiiont c^np (at which エ.“'as then resident) appointed a Coixiission (hereinafter referred to as "the said Coinr.iission H ) consisting of ？赏秦 S.Nc KING, M,C«S t , a senior civil servant (Chairnan) professor NcS,ュiLEX^HDER, Mふ， r i“D” Professor of physics at paffles collece, SBTG.xTOKE. • IT. HLYTHE會 K.G.S. to investigate the treatnent of the internees who were taken to Japanese I lilitary police Headquarters at sin^-apore in connection with the enquiry I conducted by the Japanese i T ilitary rolice vrhich corxienced on 10th October j 1943 extended until August 1945» 4* I was at Sine Hoad Ĉ u-ip at the tine the said Coixiission was appointed and 0 a v e evidence before the said CoLXiission. Tlie bribers of the ！ said coix-ission uere personally known to nie 3 I saw j/r© Kiik^ and ..“ Alexander sicn the report prepared by the said Ccnaission and also saw the si〔；natures of all tlie nenbers of the said Coouission appended to the report and personally read the siyied report Attached hereto and i^arked v/ith the letter is a copy of the report of the said Coixiissioric Tl-J S copy v;as typed under r.iy supervision from a carbon of tiio original report and エ can personally testify that it is a true and correct copy of tho original. 6. During qy ccnfinerjent at tlie Japanese l.-iilitary police Headquar-ters ェ had personal knouled^c of the conditions, torture and ill-treatuent evidentiary Docmaont fj. _5〇78<> 2 ， j detailed in tho said report (;:itL xLo exception of The .uattcrs dctCLilod ！ in the last paragraph of such report ) and testify that the said report i is a fair and accurato account of r;hat エ sci:! and czpericncoa at the Japanese Military Headquarters -rron October l?th 1943 to jxxy 26th 1944» j 7. on arrival at- the Japanese military Hcadquortors, on October 17tl j 1943’ エ v/as ^laccc：ir： a ccll T;i二]! approzii-iatcly 15 otLors under con- ditions set out in the reijort c On the sane niJat エ was token tc another room for iivostijfja-L ion and x-^ocivod boatincs on the shoulder with a rope 6 On the follo";inc ^ Y (O^tob^r iSih) ；[ v;as m d c to kneel v/itl a sharp edGod jrieco cf mcoal bc.'::.L.d ny knees。 I.y hands r;ero tied behind ny back and i_\;as iccpod under ti. ̂ kneo-liolc of a desk in a vory painful ̂ position, japenese soidiors sti '.pod a-.Dcn ny th^.'hs ana TOistcd the nctal behind knoos" l>u Uuし Tn cut tho I rcm.ined m this position for 9 or 10 hours soneuines 'ô iiiq interrogated B ether tizios bein^j left under Japanese Guards who kiched ne back into position Trhcnover エ Lioved to try and Qct rolcaso« エ was then carried back to -the cell, niy IG '̂S boii^ too v:ealv to support no« OIL the folloviiv. day (October 19th) I \:Q3 a£.;ain carried upstairs and tied face upuards on to a table and floc L ;3cl v;itE ropos recuivijv, ncre tlian_200 strokes fron_six of _the L uarcs and the Chief _ inマestimator v:orkinc in relays» エ〜7Cis corrica back tc h.e boll and r e m m o d ccnii-conscious for xiiree days and unable to stand for norc tlian three T7Goks 0 Tl.is incident is recorded uitliout referCILCG to nanos in the report of the said Coonission. After tliis, Ion乙 investi^atiens tcok place v/itl: threats of torture and deatli| but no f.iore torture tool: plticc until February 1944 ^ ^ then only for l:alf~an-liour« エ reeeived medical attention and dressing for wounds for ncre than two ^Lis r;as ^iven by tiio Japanese Doctor and dresser at tho military policc Headquarters, 8 . エ d.idL not see the actual torture of other prisoners durinj investi^at.icn but エ sew tlie results of their mltreataGnt vhen they returned to the cclls c エ alsc sc.v iiany casec of br*ataliby by the Japanese guards inflictod on thoir prisoners 0 in one particular ease trhich occurred about the "be じinn .in し of ivicvenber 1943 ： I s m : Stanley, \'jlio v/as _in_tho next cell to nii‘e_at the _Japanese i./ilitary rolico Head- quarter s, be in̂ j repeatedly taken to find returned fron the investigation toclu 7hij[e fie was away I couid hear hi3 voice crying out m a/jon^ ^anyiiii： char^cs m d e against Lira a sor^tines he 口as carried on a chair and sonGTaxica on a STRE'Dc^ER DU;; T N E torture continued over a -PERXEPRIIR . of a fa least t'./c one day "he .ret u m o d socmncly unconscious 3 “ jaj;て.：ニsし doctor vic.s cal"cd しnd \.as taken av.c.y on a ctrc-tcLcr and Qgyer returned to the c e l l。 I was told by a Japanese interpreter fEat Iio liad diedo Tins ease is*alsc reforrod to (uithcut refcroncc to nones) in the report« His death yas undoubtedly due to the mltreati-ient he r e c e i v e dエ saw people ^et",inrj tliinixCr and thinner as a result of their ordeal and lack of food, and sone of tlicm \.crc returned to sine ROccd Caip either dead or dyiiiGo % ェ do not knov; personally tiic lianes of any of the Japanese concerned in the various incidents referred to in this affidavit or in Tyidentiary Document # 3, ^ the report of tlie said Corxiissioiu On tv/o separate days in Septanber or October 1945 エ attended! at the Central rolice station and Outran Road prison identification parades cf Japanese arresbod by the British Forces. エ identified a certain ninnber as bein^ prGGont during r.y confineiient at tlie Japanese Military rolice Hoadouai'ters and others who had definitely taken part in iiy investigation and torture, a British officer naraod Tyild (of,エ think 9 tLe rank of M^jor) was present with ne at all identification parades v;hich ェ attended and rjade notes cf njy identu lo- cations • srORN at Duiiec.in in the Doiai.nion of Nev; Zealand this jj'oiLrtcontli day of pebruoryg り。 Before ne： ) ) ( S i g n e d ) IXOHAHD SINGブiTORE. ) (Slcnod) C.B.B. B/'JfflOTOLOUGE A solicitor of the supreme Court of Nev Zealand. Certified true copy. (Sicked) R.B. L/Jffln, Lt. Col. (Lt。Col. n.Bo Lanbe) TTar (Jrines Registry HQ i'JLFSG'“ lyidentiary Document fl 5°78# r . � “ニ'‘ GEKERAL SUM仏HY OF ST il TSIIEN , rC HL'COHDID HI COMMECTION •7IT:I THE INVESTIG二T:ON OF GIL'J\TGI C ^ C m THE J ^ ^ H S S E IvTLITJiHY POLICE, ‘ f A COIl: T ISS;LCN appointed by the authorities of Sine poad internnent Caiiip to take urA record evidence from internees who were arrested by the Japanese Military pcJice in consequence of a raid on Changi Cap on 10/10/43, first sat on Thursday 20/.?/45，having taken sxatenents fron 38 of the survivcrsc It v;as con&icle.?ed lament to record this evidence prior to the dispersal o.f the Cnirp whi^h, it :/as believed, niしlrt take placc as early as the 3rd Septenbor 1945» 厂 〇 n 1C 10/43, all internees in Cliangi prison rere paraded soon after d a m in the i./p.in Yard as if for a routine roll-call^ soon after this the i/]ilitary rolice arrived and ariBGd soldiers picketed all doors» ム nujiiber of tlie internees vjere called out by namej labelled and se{jre{jatedfl mternees were thon ordered back to their Block yards Tzhere further label丄ine and se^recatiiiG took pL-ce. i./ss^nwhile, a search was LBcle on the personal belongs of all internees • During this search there was looting and wanton destruction by the Japanese, The investigation finished after dusk and internees v/ere allowed to return inside the prison：. I.?iny of then had liad no food since 6 (T.T t .) j on the previous day； and scrae suffering' distress and even collapse j tc the day-Ion^ exposure to the sun without food. in consequencG of this investigation, 5 7 internees were removed from changi prison by the Military polico cn or after 10/10/43- "Vith one e x e r t i o n , these v/ere all interrogated at Japanese Military police centres in Singapore • ^he course cf the interrogation shov;©d that the Japanese て;ore trying to establish that there was a spy organization in Changi prison which received and. transi-iitted by radio telephony, which ； h a d established contacts in the torm for tho purpose of sabotage and stirring up of anti-jaj^anese feelinct and ikick collected r^oney from outside for this purpose。 in fact, thcro vms no spy c^aiii.OTti.on, 11c radio transnission and no at tGr-:i;t tc p r o m t e anti—-Japanese activities outside the Qarip 0 There uors, however„ radio-receiving sets in the caiqp r/iiicii v;cre used solely for tlie reception of news, and ix>ncy was collected from persons outside the Car.5) for the sole vurpose of suppleLicntin;: the totally inadequate rations supplied by the Japanese r I jlie conditions under which internees xj^re detained by the Military police uere rigorous in the extreo3« They were crowded, irrespective of race ? SEX, or state cf health? in S L B I I cells or ca^es # Tl-By T;ere so craoped that they could not lie doim in cohTfort s no j bedding or coverings of any kind were provided and bright lights were : k e p t burning overhead all iii/jbt<, Fron 8 to 10 p。Li 0 inmates had to sit up straight 011 the bare floor with their knees up and v;ere not allowed to relax or put their hands cn the floor 5 or talk, or move, except to じc tc the lavatory« Any infraction of the rigid discipline Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. j involved a beating by the sen 4 r^es 0 ^liere v;as one pedestal water-closet ： i n each cell or ca/^o ? and tue wし丄？r flushing into the pan provided the | only water supply for all purpose-s, including drinkin^» It should bo j recorded here that nearly all cf :he i n m t e s suffered from enteritis or :dysentery. No scap^ tov/el 5 toile ;： articles ct handkerchiefs v/ere per- I initted and i n m t e s bad no clothin-• other than those they were :7earin^ # i Tl:e food supplied 9 n c r m l l y rice； occasional vegetables，and v/eak j tea with 110 Liilk cr su{jar^ v/as loss them half of that supplied by our own i rrisons pepartnent as punislur at diet for Asiatics 0 it \7as insufficient J tc support life cvar a lon^ period and lod to serious deficiency diseases j in all cases of ]on£j detention^ i radical facilities afforded, v:liether visits cf medical personnel or ; t h e supply of i^edicinas Cr dru^s, v/ere for all practical purposes non- existent, in m n y cases, our own doctors sharing the cell with the sick made urcent requests for prcopt medical attention on their behalf, i particularly in cases uhere the victiu r/as cn the point cf death f but | these requests uere invariably i£jnored 0 m one case, a Japanese doctor, i who v/as called to see an internee suffering frcn a fractured polvis and ! possibly ruptured kidney, ronarked that the m n was not sick enough. j îie three women taken fron chan^ji prison r;ere detained in exactly the ！ sane conditions as the nen and shared cells witli m l e prisoners of all ！ races, ^hey were afforded no pr.ivacy, even for their nost i n t i m t e req.uirenents t and any atbeipt on tlie part of European nen to screon then was broken dovm by the guardsr They were subjected to insults and obscene gestures by Japanese prisonerG in the sane coll and the Japanese | prisoners, with the assent of tlv.e。“uards $ tried to conpel then to perform ； t h e rjost sordid tasks in the cell 0 The buildibcs occupied by the Japanese Military rolico resounded all day and all niG'ht v/ith blows, the bellowing of the inquisitors, and the shrieks of the tortured， Fron tii;ie to tine, victiins fron the torture | chambers would stacker back or, i•ご unconscious, v/ould be dragged back to their cells v/ith narks of their ill-treatnent on their bodies c m one such case, an unconscious victira so returned died during the ni^lit, v;itliout receiving any nedical attention f and his body vias net renoved until the afternoon, in these oonditicnc, and th.is atmosphere of terror, these and irorjen waited, scinetines for nonths, their suixions to interrogation T/hich mi^ht cone at any hour of the day or ni£-lit c Usually interrogations started quietly and uoula so continue as lone as the inquisitors ^ot the expected ansv;ors. if, for any reason, such answers were not forthcoming, physical violence was irxiediately employed. Tlie Liethods used were ？ i (1)'Tater Tcr'bure ̂ There i;erc tv/o forus of water torture 0 in the first, the victim was tied or held down on his back and a cloth placed over his nose and nouth # •.了atcr wus then poured on the cloth 0 interro- gation proceeded and the victin was beaten if lie did not r e p l y •厶 s he Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. opened his inouth to breathe or tc arisフo-r •qu^ticns.,- -.vater went down his throat until he could hold no n c r e s o r j s t i n e s ? he was th^n- beaten' over his distended stoniach, sonetimeG a Japanese junked on his stomach， or sometimes, pressed on it with his fcot e j i in the second the victin was tied len^thuays on a ladder, face J upv:ard3, with a runこ of the ladder acrosa Lis throat end his head below | the ladder, in this position, lie was slid first into a tub of water and kept there until alrio-st di-o^mediifter being rcvivod, interrogation pro- ceeded and he would be rc-ioaersetfU (2) in(j with iron 'bars, brass voC.3 ? sticks, banboos• \7ot knotted ropes f telts with buckles； or revolver butts, all ever the body«. 7/hilst these beatincswere bein^ i n f I i e d , the victims ；vere sonetines suspended by the wrists rron a rope parsed o"ver a be'Jin̂ sone tines their hands T7ere tied behind their backs and they uere fcr cad to kneel on sharp pieces of wood or iron, while sliarp-ed^ed pieces of wcod or metal ivere placed behind their knees so as tc cut into the flesh as they knelt。 While they v/ere so kneeling the Japanese would jur.^ 011 their thighs or on the projecting ends of the bar or wood behind the knees j sonetines to increase tho | pressure on the v/ood cr bar behind the knees, a Japanese would perc... i hii^self on the shoulders of the victim, cr the victir.1, uith hands untied, | would be coLipelle'd to hold heavy weights above his hoad a They v/ere often ；forced to r c m i n in this position without intermission for 9 to 10 hours } during which period interrogation would しc on reiiorselossly f punctuated by blows. At times, the victim would be tied to a table and f l o ^ e d until he lost ccnsciousnessc in one case, the ixm so flo^G'ed c-oiinted over 200 i blows before losing consciousness. This treatnent was, in sone cases, I carried on daily for 4 to j ^ y s consecutivcly a in one case, a European '；v/Iio died later was interrogated v;ith tho usual beatigp for 58 hours at a 'stretch and another i]u.ropean, since dead, underr/ont 144 hours of beatings ！ in all, according to the estimate of his cell nates # i (3) DU-rin^j interrogation the inquisitor, in 3.iaxiy cases, burnt the victiE. 7/ith cigarette and cheroot ends f even on the riiost sensitive parts of the bedy, .e.-.;, arn-pits, betr/een the toes, oil tho scrotur: and penis. Several Asiatics had petrol poured on their bellies and ignited, and | another Asiatic had his hands tied together and iLxiersed in a bowl of j methylated spirit T/Lich was ignited, (4) Electric Torture, Tl^re yjotg tv/o forns of this, jn the first,an induction ceil was used, one electrode beir^ attached to the hand or foot cind the ether,a bare wire,v/as applied to various parts of the body. One victin reports that he was tlircv/n across the room by the violence of the sliock. ^he effect has been described as one of physical and nental disinto^ration 0 The second fcT2;i,apparently more severe, was called tlie electric table or electric cap. Tiiere is evidence that this v/as used, but not OIL any cf our witnesses • J Evidentiary Docui:ient # 3078鲁 レ (5) in addition to these ferns of torture t the inquisitor, often enployed other methods, such as iu-jicsu, tuistin^ of linbs, bending back oi' finders, tuistilly of sharp-ed^ed uocd between finccrS； punching, repeated blows OIL the same spot, and so on c Tliose methods, 5n iiany cases resulted in dis- locations and permnent dariace to linbs and joints, m one case, the inquisitor punctuated his questions by flicking off, with the frayed end of a baLiboo f flesh bruised in a previous beat.in£; 0 This left a perLianent scar, six inches by three inches on the victiLi J s thigh• (6) in several eases ? victims were led to believe that their execution either by beheading or shootin^? inininentc They were advised to write a letter of farev/ell^ preparations for execution were carried out ? up to the penultinate stage, 171th such realisn that, in two cases t the victnis fainted• (7) Threats to families. Threads r;ere also m d e to take action against the family of the victin (the wives of some internees were believed to be in Japanese custody in other parts of Asia) 0 Torture was carried out to the linit of hui:ian endurance。 one irrterneo attested to conr,iit suicide by juinpin^ over tlie verandah„ J11 his fall he fractured his pelvis, but, despite his condition, his interrogation under torture was continued until just before lie died # 111 another case, the internee asked his inquisitors for the ueans to coiiî iit. suicide« L pisベ ol was produced and was snatched away only when the Lian was about to carry out his declared intent ion # Of the 5 7 internees detained as a result of the investigations on 10/10/43f 12 died of sickness directly attributable to the appalling con- ditions under v;hich they were detained; one， as in the preceding paragraph, as a result of his fall and torture and one was executed. The survivors who returned after lengthy custody by the j/ilitary police required prolonged treatment in the C^EP Hospital for extrerae emciation (except where oedenia was present), chronic dysentery, neuritis, sores, ulcers f scabies, beri- beri , w e a k hearts., or injuries to joints and linbs # The corxiission also recorded the evidence of the three surviving neinber out of six of the Body Disposal Squad who uere arrested by the Japanese Illitary police in the Municipal Buildin^i S i ^ G a P o r e i ^ l ^ c h 1942, and who were sentenced after a so-called trial, to two yes solitary confinement, each for "anti-Japanese talk", ，Thile in prison, three of the six died r/ithout receiving nedical attention whatsoever。 Requests for medicine on their behalf evoked the reply tfijhey are eneiiy prisoners and are not allowed any nedicines » 0 j ( S IGNED) K I N G , U.G.S. CH/IIRMUT N.S, iiEXaKDEE, M.S., It“DO Camp, professor of physics . ) ぢ丄• BLYTHL, IJUC.S. ) I bribers, S i n Road m t eminent S i n G a P o r e • 3rd September, 1945« Certified true copy. (Signed) R 0 B . LiiMEE, Lt. Col. (Lt^Cclo R r B 0 iiAG v;ar Crimes Recistry, Hq ALFSE/“ Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. J A P i J ? E S E C R I M E S "DOUBLE TENTH" CASE, 01 擺 G I , SIITOAPORE. ム：F F I D A T I T* し I , CHaRIUS ERIC HTIJTEEI^NIT, Iierchant of BREZM/Je丁 and C o " Singapore, v/ith address C/o Hilterj^nn E r o s " 2l\. Lirae Street, London f 胆 k e oath and say as follows: 1 # ェ was in Singapore at the timo of the capitulation of the British forces tc the Japanese in February 1942• Imiediatcly after the capitulation and in company with most of the other civilians on the island.ェ uas interned in CKAHGI GAOL. There I stayed until13 October 1943* On that data and v:ithcut warning I ：了しs tcikon to tho E^inpei-tai hoadquctrters at the Other people were taken with me and they wero LIOEEL GOODxiL and J l i m KEIH5. v/ere not £ivon any inforoation as to t/hy v/ero takeni nor v/as any charge m d e against us. \'je a l l ' three arrived at the y # M,C.A t on the same d a y , 1 5 October and v/ere at once put into various cages. All the time I was in the Y.M.G J“ which j four v;eoks there ;:ere onythinど frcm eisiiteen tc tv;enty-fivc people in this cage* just hui bare beards to lie on and there was a p e d e s t a l ！ i n one corner which ue had to use for all purposes, washing, drinking uc.ter and of course necessary calls of nature、 Our food consistod of very limited quantities cf ricej which was a starvation diet# 2« within half an hour of niy arrival at the Y|JuC*A. I vas pulled cut for interrogation by tho Japanese, Tlio Japanese interrogator started off by saying："恥 know everything f tell us all you k n o w " .ェ hadn't the slightest idea v;hat thoy v;oro talkig about and 工 said so, without more ado I uas struck by the third japaneso person, who v;as obviously there purely in the capacity of a beater up. The other two T;cro of course the interrogator and his interpreter. Then they started my interrogation proper• I T7as accused cf spying, asked the names of spies in CHA1 T GI and agents in SINGAPORE.ェ was also questioned about a radio trans- iiiitter. The rhole interrogation lasted from in the afternoon until a t niじht, uhen エ was cai^ied down to my ca^e in a semi- conscious condition. Oil six other interrelations within the next 10 days I hud to undergo similar treatment. j 3* W i^cicory is a little vague as tc the kind cf various ；tortures r/hich :;ore inflicted cn mo durinothose questionings. I one of the tortures I remoinbor was "being tiod up in a kneeling i position vzith a stick under ir̂ knees -jad hands tied behid iny ]back # a rope v;as then tied to iny 〜/rist and over a pally in the J ceilinど• One of the Japanese then pulled on the ropo and I uas hoisted up by my r;rists # l v 1iile in this agonising position 1 was beaten uith sticks and ropes• I also had the v/ater treatment which consisted cf a cloth bcin^ put over my icouth and then water being pourod on it and I very necTly suffocated^ in order to breathe I had to tike in a ^rcat quantity cf yater and this distended ray stomach cnoririously^ I was r hoて/ever,, spared the torture of somebody jump ing on ine. \ 4* Another mothed they used xicls to tie mo to a table and burn me with cigarette ends and chcroots up and down my thighs. I have the scars of these still on ne # These tortures ェ have enumerated uere the major ones. All through those interrogations I was con- stantly beaten and kicked and knocked about by the intarpreteri interrogcitor and any of the japaneso who were present. Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. 2. After ten daysof this they gave up trying to get any information out of me and ェ was left moreol* less in peace• After four weeks in the Y^M.C.A,エ was sent over to smith street Detention B^Tracks and there I v;as kopt in a tiny cell measuring ft. by 5i れ . T h e r e uere some times as muny us seven people in there at the scane time, This minute cell had also a pedestal typo rr .C. in it. On the occasion that there Mere seven people there we literally had to squat on the floor and there was no chcnce of stretching ou•し Apart from this physical discoinfort there was the acute mental di stress of hoor m g the screams and yells of other unfortunate people boing tartux-od in other rooms in the same building, and never k:aov;ing iihe.n one v;as going to bo called for interrogation and torture onGse.lf« This icental torture uas the worst part of the whole inxprisciimGnt nhich エ suffered both in the Y.MoC.A. and smith street.エ"t was almost r/orse in the Y.M.C.A r irhich yas a large uooden building ^ d as all the doors ".:ere open, one could hear everything that went on. It was like "bedlam" day and night• (>• Food at 汉这让 street yas m c h the scuib as at the Y It consisted of very limited qucjitities of rice - not enough to live on for very long. During the three months I was there nothing happened to me personally apart from tho usual brutal treatment of the guards • scmotime in the middle of i,5irch I went back to tho Y.lv^C.A, and spent another three weeks therw I \;as finally released on the 8th April 19^14 and uas brought back to Changi where エ spoilt four or five veeks in hospital # 7» During tho time エ was in the Y.lIUC m k. end smith street • I sai7 a good many of the British poople who were seized by the Keiapei-tai during October 1 9 4 3 O H one occasion I saw the Bishop of Singapore who had been maltreated terribly. His lo^s from his hips to his ankles had been beaten tc pulp« They wore literally like rai7 meat« He could not inovo at all und v/cis just about able to c r a u l ,エ also saw STEFj2ITS0rT before he di。d. H。v;as black and blue from bec.tinc# His body was in a terrible c o n d i t i o n .恥 toe could barely move himself. MTDDLEEROO::エ saw qhile I uas in sniith Street• He told me xrhat treatment he had suffered during his interrogation and that pre* 81 uas the man responsible. He was in a very bad physical condition, ccvorod in bruises and seres. FRASER I alsc saw in smitli streets He had not boen badly treated v;hen ェ met him. H© v;as only suffering from severe dysentery and マas so \7Gck thしt he had to be helped tc the T7.-C. V7e ciirselvos v;ere sc T/cak at the tinie that we could hardly get him there. PLRRY v;as in the opposite cell to me at Smith street and エ could sec him through the b a r s , 恥 was blcv/n UD like a balloon from beri-beri • CLAI2I was uitli me in the same ca^e at smith street. He toe \;aa in a very bad vay • frem beating and general maltreatment. T/hen he was brought into my cell I simply did not recognise him and had to ask him his nし咖ニフ Evidentiary Docunent 林 «513し 8, ”:ith regard to tho nenbers of the irci^ci-tai whon I saw in tho Y.M.C•；“ and snith street f I have looked carefully at tho folder of photo- graphs shcim to ne narked "Exhibit A * and attached to this 可 affidavits in this folder of photc^rciphs I can positively identify N o s . l y 3i 2 % 32• 8 1 , 8 2 , 6 7 and 84 cs being uenbers cf the Konpei-tai when エ saw in the Y.M.C•…and saith Street. 9t マ i t h regard to these people who personally rxiltreated nc, uy l^coory is a little vague but I an almost ccrtain that N o . 3° V C i S the m n T/ho interrogated ne firs十 and •[ ol: posixivo that j:ro f 1 T/as the boater up on that occasion,, îio only c-i;b.Qr p';r3o:x .t can roc-cgnisc is No- 67. He used tc coiviG around tho cagcs anc ^vb inc in oar open sores. T^iis uas net done uith. any tenderness 0 1 、 a vie;； to alloviatixig cur suffering # He obviously used tc onjoy dcin^ it and laughed at u s . 10. ゾユ1 the Konpci-tai people v/crc aluays very tidily dressed and snicrrt in their appearancc • They v;cro usually dressed in civilian shark skin suits. S u O W by the sc.id CK.J01ES ERIC ) laLTERI/LM at 3/9 Southcu^ton ) RCV; in tho county cf L o n d o n , ) this 28th d:.y of January 1946 ) Before nc, (Signed) ERIC HILTSHMM^U (Signed) J. D L K « T “ Corxiissionor fcr c^-ths # CortiTied true copy® (Signed) Lt . C e l . lyidcrxtiary X)ocnncnt # 5 ^ 5 f po.lice station, ^JexTuarkct • A U C F L ^ D . 25'ih October 9 1945• ; E R L ^ M.URICE JOHNS stctes：- I on a duly qualified registered nodical practitioner• I an registered in 脚 7 Zealand f England and l^ilaya. 1 an Senior surgeon, General Hospital, Singapore, a rxnbor of the M^l^y^n Judical service. エ an an cx-civil internee of v;ar f Singapore ijrea # I v;as born in New Zealand cn 15th M^irch, 1901^' I an at prcsor A t on leave in ncu Zealand and ny address is 28 Dilwcrth Avenue, Renuora, ^uckland. に I was at r.iy post in Singapore when the Japanese captured the town ijnonfi others, I was interned cn 26th February, 1942• Until tho 6th Mirch f 19421 I v/as confined in on old house cn tho waterfront at Singapore• On that date, all the civil internees, including l^ysolf, were narchod seven nilcs to Changi civil prison• Tho uonen and children were quartered in one section cf the prison the xjcn in another sccticn. At all tines 1 Japanese soldiers were in charge of tho internees and prisoners, though the administration changed fron tine to tine # The following inpertant persens were interned with rx；；- Sir siient011 Thorx:s, Governor cf straits scttlenents, Gc-ncrcwl McR^.e f Indian Medical service, Sir percy l/P2lv/aiia, Chief justice, straits scttlcoents, The Chief justice of tho pedcrated ivSilay straits (ェ cannc.t rccall h i s no.no), tr. Spits, Governor cf Sunatra, I^r. Charles Hoロell, Attorney-General of straits scttlencnts, and IT9 Hugh Fraser, Colonial Secretary• On an average f thcro v/ould bo about 2,^00 non end about ^00 wouei and children in changi rrison Carpシ,They comprised various nationalities, there being NOT zoalanders p snglishnon, Australians, ；jncricans, Dutch, South Africans, Canadians, a Spaniard, a Huiianian, an Indian f several Chinese f and sone •ブnonions. ^Altogether, there v;cre about 27 different nationalities represented in the prison^ Conditions at changi prison were not satisfactory. There was gross overcrowding, v;hich Mas the chicf ccLj)laint # The prison was only neant to hold 600 persons in all.“t tines f it contained over 3,000 person cf both soxes, \7hich causcd inch inccnvcnicncc • Hotrover 9 the water supply, clcctric li沙t and sanitation were satisfactory, as wore the cooking fc.cilitios # The cclls in which sone of the internees uerc confined v;ero rjcant to hold onc person only, but throe internees were placed in cach coll # There uus one platform only tc sleep oru The cclls were snail•1 I cannot rerx=r.:ber the exact noasurcnonts• on account cf the over-crowding, the cells could net contain everybody in the prison, so thct the workshops and every other spare roon was cccupicd by tho internees. Evidentiary Docunent ガ 5205c 2. va'jftor repeated requests to tho Japanese, T70 were allowed the use cf tho prison hospitals t one for v/oncn and children, the other for the non For about the first yoar, due r^ainly to our own efforts, ue had sufficient food, and at that tixio I dc not think any p or sen died fron starvation, though there was illness fron mlnutrition (the result of an unbalanced diしt). This began tc appear fairly early in 1942• こOn 10th October, 1 9 4 3 1 1 i n t c r n o o s in Ch^ngi prison were 1 paraded soon after daun in the rxiin yard us if for a routine roll call. Scon after this, the Japanese r.iilitary police arrived and corned soldiers picketed all d o o r s .厶 number of internees were called cut by none, labe丄丄e and segregated. The intcrnoes were then ordorod back to their block yards where further labelling and se^rogaticn took place. M^amhilola soarch vas m d e of tho personal belongings of all intcrnues. During this search, there was looting and wanton destruction by tho Japanese # The investigatio ended soon after dusk the scxio day and internees viqto allowed to return inside the prison. Ivpny cf thou had lnoH no food sines 6 p.ia. the previous day, and sone suffered coll^psc, owing to tho day long exposure tc the sun without fcod» in consequence of this investigation, 57 intc-rnees, including rjyself f xioto ronoved fron Chang'i prison by the nilitary police on or ば t e r the 10th October, 1943* '..:ith ono exception, these ^ero all inter- rogatod at japanose m l i t a r y pclicc centres at Singapore. Tiie course of the investigation revoaled that the Japanese v/ere trying to establish thこt there was a spy organizcticn in chaxigi prison, v/hich roccivod and transritted messages by uireless,/ I v/as detained with others in a block of flats in snith Street, Singapore, Altogether,ェ T;こs interrogated by the Japanese about 26 tines, and after one such interrogation ェ was beaten by tho Japanese • I uill refer to this incident later in rsy stdtencnt • し I uill first ralato uhat happened to a Chinoso lad n-anod Lin* / I do not K N O W his full NCIUO. / H O VJCIS enploycd in the Japanese off do of tlTc internracnt canp and v/as arrested and placcd in the sauc ccll that ェ was occupying.ムlthou^h I did not i-ctuclly v/itness his beating, the condition of bruising and open T7onnds vhon ho uas returned to the cell after inter- rogation, v/as, to uy niiid, conclusive evidence cf the brutal treatnent he had rcccivGd. Ho v/as one of tho first tc be interrogated by the Japanese f and after several of such intorviqv/S he uas so sick that he yas unable to take じny food whatever, and v;hcncvcr I gave hin yater to sip he imcdiatcly vonitcd it back • in r.y opinion he vas suffering fron an intra-abdoninal lesion, probably a ruptured liver• The v^iolc of tho back of his neck and upper part of his back .-.nd the uhole cf his buttocks verc extensively bruised, This incident occurred between 11th October, 19431 l?th October, 1943» on which day ho mis rcnovod from the ccll, to ay nind, in じ condition^ it ll I could get fron hin v/as that the Japanese had tcld hin that if he knew anything he must toll then about it # j They did net ask hin tc speak cr refer to any specific incident. Evidentiary Docuncnt Jf 5^05* 3- /_ i subsequently nade enquirieSjy'and sincc hostilixios ceased j T7L.S infcrucd• by several people f v;lio I h‘vc reason to believe kiiov; hin:, /that lie d i e d ]ェ connoi: rcnember tho nanes of the people who told no about Lin 1 s death• I LLctor, the 23rd Noveubcr,l$43t while still in detention,ェ was surxioncd by the Japanese for interrogation.」The interrogation lasted for about tuo hours and the questioning related to cji alleged wireless transmitting set uhicli tlio jw.panose informed ne tliat Dr. Cuthbert ::thur Stanley, xrho was quartered with no at Changi prison, hed confessed to being in possession o f .ム s I v/cis well aware that Dr. Stanley was not in possession of such a set, I denied any knoi7ledge of i t .工 was nerely informed that Dr. Stanley had confcssed. They told ne that they had found the set in the prison, but did. not produce it -.vhen ェ disked to see it. I v/as infori-.icd thct I uas regarded しs being pcrfcctly iimccent f but that I was av;are that Dr. Stanley had the r/ircless set じs ェ had warned hin that it uas dangerous to possess it. This v;as untrue g “t that tine, Dr. Stanley uas conf in od in tho Y J & C •ム v ; h i c h iras bein^ used as a japciiese military police headquarters• / ̂ t o r questioning nc for about tr;o hours, the Japanese took ne to a roc:: in which ェ T7as told onc cr tv7C of our people had been tortured by clcctric current • Thcare v:ero nui'ierous wires lying about the rcon f but the apparatus uas not rjcrkin^• I was then taken to cjiother rcor.: on tho ground floor^ This wus in the block of_ flats in S^ith Street. The rooi.1 r;as fairly large uith a ccncr^to floor• |Hangin^ fron the coiling was a rope, to ^hicli ny two hands v/crc t i e d .ェ was then beaten by し l a r g e bariboo stick* ^hc brxiboo trculd be about tuo inchcs in diameter and about five foet long # it uas an ordinary barnbeo used to carry things on» I T7Qs then boat en over the buttocks, prodded T7ith the end of the pole over all the bcjiy points cf the body, the knees t the thighs, and lower portion of the spine. The soue pole was used to knock nc domi to ry knees It uas then plrxcd in a horizontal position behind the alvos of the legs and the Japanese jumped on both ends cf tho pole. This ucxit on for sono tine| after which the pole was placed bctuccn ny cotch and ェ was jerked tc tho standing position.ェでしs further beaten over the buttocks by a piece cf broken floor beard• Tliis beard v/as about tvro and a half feet long, cue and a h しIf inches uiclc and about one inch thick, I tos clso b oat on v;ith the buckle end of a bolt. Tho japanoso alsc kicked rjc 011 the shins• After this forn of treatuent had continued for sone tine 1 fainted. :7hcn ェ rcccverod, rjy hemds r;ere untied and tho rope tied round 可 unist.ェワtis then suung round and round the roon on the rope and struck uith pieces of wood and kicked, I v/as later released and returned to r̂ y ccll. During the •oursc.jpf tho next twelve hcurs I fainted a number of tine's• liy body v/cs nuii.J None of tiae other internees witnessed r;hat occurred to nc in tho tcrturc rooi；, but one of then r;as sitting in the next rccn r/here the boating tcok plL.cc• Ho rias Mr. John D-lton, radio sound onginec'r, ncinager of a theatre in Kualn Luupur • H^ later infcrncd Lie that ho h-d heard all thct wont on during rjy boating. There v/cre tliree Japanese concerned in beating ne, Thoy were に rri(ici:tiory Dccunnt -jj ( 1 )ム Japanese rj.litary p o l i c o m n . I have roascn tc believe that ho held the rank of sergeant Ifijcr.ェ do not know his none, but on the several occasions thニt I saw. hin before Lind after ny beこting lie yes noi^xiiiir tho cxn band of the Japanese rulitary p o l i c c .エ cejinct supply any other evidence as to his identity, excopt that エ \70uld be able to identify hin again if I ever saw hin« This rim did the questioning. (2) ^ Japanese interpretor： Tho interpreter was not wearing Japanese unifcrn whenever I sau hin. H。広:s dressed in Japanese civilian clothirぶ• I do net knew his n « . • far as I can renciaber, he v;as an interpreter attached solely to the Japanese military policc I do not think I ;:culd be able to identify hin again # (3) L Japanese soldier adtin^; as boat or up： This nan took nc part in the interrogation. He v/as iiercly a tliug•放 actually tied ne up and boat ne with the bamboo, though the gorge lint j/p.jor took a hanc in beating dp as w e l l ,ェ have no knouledgo that would assist in identifying this m n . I would not be able tc identify hin again, I carjiot say who was in clicirgo of the r.dlitary police or offer ciny information in assisting in establishing the identity of tho japaneso responsible for authorising or perforning the acts of brutality# ムs a rxitter of fact, every Japanese soldier resorted tc vicloncc as a ratter of course• As a result cf rjy beatings, I do not feel that ェ have suffered any peruanent injuries. For four nonths after r.iy beating? I had a rope burn on 可 right wrist and it was about seven raonths before the skin sensation returned to that hand• I also lost sensation on the inside of both thighs, the dircct result of the use cf the pole between rjy logs, / lifter the beatings, it would be about the end of Deccraber, 1943? ェ ccntrこctod dysentery and ェlay on the floor of ；;iy coll without any ccvoi ing or r-icdical attention for throe v/ecks. ^jftcr thしt, as a result cf repeated requests by 可 ccll uatcs f エ x:。.s seen by a Japanese doctor, r;ho racrely crdorod a ricuth wash. I do not knov; his identity. '..liilc I yas confined in the detention cclls 9 the other interneec v/cro taken out frcn tine tc tine for questionin£ and would return showing uniiistakablo signs cf boating und torturc # ェ have seen riy cell m t e s leave the cell quite fit nd TZCII and return frcn interrogation bearing obvious signs cf physical torture./ エ an unable to state v/hotlacr tho sarie japaneso beat up r.iy coll nates ond other internees in dot out ion who beat no, i hT* Cheatlc, Singapore i.xinagcr for Thoxxis Cooke and Sons, was one ixin when I saw v;ith open wcunds on the front of both knees, and fresh cigcrotte burns on the lower parts of the thighs and back of the neck • H C X . Jackson, Mcilayan Transport Beard, another cell m t e , told no that the japaneso had wrenched his thumb and broken it. I was able to lyidentiary Dccuuen•し；;ニへし’ verify that the thui^b \r<:\» £racturor! • . John H^rcirx'.n, of the Electrical rjcpt, f at Jchcr^j in.fomod ne that he had sustained on injury tc tho knee as a r r ^ u ^ of being thrown by ju-jitsu throi7s by the japtjiese when his haiads were tied behind his back, iji examination cf tho knee shaved that there vas an injury tc a cartilegc. ijiothor case I personally oxardnod that of じ young Indian c. nancd paju, who had been onplcyed cs a clcrk in the Japanese office of the intornnont canp. H。had a fracture of tlie knee cap and also of the ulnar bono in CILO fcroarn. I actually saw the results of Japanese punishracnt in respect to the nen ncntionod• I did not sec the tortures being inflicted. The victius used tc toll what the Japanese did. On lijiy 1st,1944» エ transferred to sine Read carip, irhere I •remained until tho end of hostilities. | During the whole of intormuent and unknov/n to the Japanese, a collete record uas kept by various cca:ip officials cf all incidents and こ full report prepared • I was head Corxiandant at the car-p for nine nonths and during that period I assisted tc naintain that record. Vv'honever it WCL reported thc.t an incident had occurred a report would be tcken fron the vie tin and make a .written record of it* ；;e used tc obtain all tho facts, end in sone eases we actually obtained signed statenents fron the victims• Conplctc rcccrds v;cre iiadc of housing, feeding, stores and supplies end every act of brutality• ]tyculd be impossible, without referring to that record, tc give a conplctc statenent of every act of violence I v/itnessed. After hoatilitios ccascd f I do not knou uhat happened to the non, Ly coll m t c s , rhc v;erc beaten up by tho Japanese f referred to in this statenent• So fct as the canp record is concGrncd^ c. full report v/as pre- pared cjid t エ think it v/ould be sent tc the Hone Secretary, cr the Colonial Office, (Signed) B.M. JOHNS 25.10.k5* StatcLient taken and signature witnessed by the undersigned： (Sienod) ：“ RUSH Sergeant. 25 # 10 # 45 # Cortifiod T T U G Copy ( S i e v e d )厶 . H I G H E T Captain JETS. 2 0 . 2 . 1 9 な 6 , Evidentiary Document No. COPY 0 1 '、 F O H v I Date, Camp or 上)lace• Particulars of the Criminal Act or Violation. Names where known, dercription, rank appointment, unit, etc.» of enemy- personnel concerned and any other detail to fix their identity. Names of witnesses 27 Dec In the jungle about 14 miles from Ipoh Source who v/as in Coy Zj/19 Hybad, was ordered to move with his Coy to a position miles N.E. of Ipoh, where they were to patrol the area. .Vhile accompanied by f D' Coys of the A and S. H- anc3 5/2 Punjab and about 2 or 3 miles from their starting point, they were attacked and dispersed by the Japanese, who after inflicting heavy casualties rounded up the stragglers, and in all about 75 nien were captured, included 2ら from 5/2 i^unjab and the remainder from the 4/19 %bad,> None of the Argゾlis was captured, although some of them were killed in the engagement• Sources was among those captured. The captured men were stripped of all their clothes except their underwear, and v/ere kept without food or water from 10.00 hrs until 18.00 hrs under Japanese guard when their hands were tied behind their backs and they were kept in three batches, each batch being about 50 yards away from the other. The same evening at about 2000 hrs Japanese soldiers commenced attacking them with bayonets and chopping the heads off those who cried loudly. Source was bayonetted twice on the small of the back and、escaped by- pretend ing to be dead and lying under some dead bodies。 Source had no etc。 to which belonged• idea as to the unit the perpetrators (INDIAN TROOPS) The statement was recorded by me, source and admitted correct. read over to zhe Number IIC2O Narae I肌 CHWffi Unit/Ship 4/19 Hyberabad Infantry Home Address Village: Pot a P.0, Kanina Date and place of Capture: 2? Dec. 1941 Rank SEPOY Nabha State 1れ miles beyond Iooh, Malaya® (Signed) A.K. Thompson Major G.S,D.I.Co (I) Following witnesses of whom to 4/19 Regt：- 1.Jem Kara Sin/^h 2aL/Nk Ni Singh 3.Sep Bhoo Singh (now with Agra) ね . S e p Dha 5-Sep Jag (now with Apra) 6.Sep Pir Evidentiary Document No. m -'age Certified true copy of original statement • 18th A p r i l 1如 6 . (Signed) P.S. LAMBE, Lt.-Colonel AAG ？ar Crimes IIQ, ALESEA. Evidentiary Document No.ヲ432 cxi\ORR,I£ QI I : \ I D E X G E . M A L A Y A 1 » M a s s a c r e n e a r I P O h Frosecutxon Document numbered 5ェ5斗，being the stetenent of Sepoy I.JIL C-liAND is now produced for identification arid the marked excerpts offered in evidence 3 This document r e l a t e s that seventy five I n d i a n s o l d i e r s w h e n c a p t u r e d , were m a s s a c r e d b y b e h e a d i n g a n d the b a y o n e t , The w i t n e s s w a s bayonetted himself b—at escaped wi tb. hie； life by lying under some dead b o d i e s > 2 . M u r d e r o f P / ' v V a t l i U A K Prosecution Document n''inhered 2̂4-3. being the Affidavit of T,C, TKEVOL, is now offered for identification and the narked excerpts producer] in evidence 3 This Affidavit states that on 3 February r 194-2 ? six Australian soldiers， i n c l u d i n g the w i t n e s s ； having b e e n c a p t u r e d b y the -Japanese, w e r e at M U A L， i n c^Id b l o o d , fired u p o n by a 'bren g u n . A l l the men were killed or died la ter, but the witness escaped, 3 • M a s s a c r e o f P A J a t P A I . I T S J L O I 、 : G P r o s e c u t i o n D o c u m e n t m i n b e r e d ^'043, being the Affidavit of Lt, B , C, HACKKEY, is now tendered'for identifica- tion and the marked excerpts offered in evidence e This A f f i d a v i t states thst on 2 2 n d， J s n a a r y ,丄 9 4 2 5 the w i t n e s s , w h o was wounded, and a lerge n，oir:l?er of men fron other Units, were captured by the Japanese at Parit Stilong« The witness describes their treatment as follows:- "(1) On many occasions a Japanese indicated to a wounded man to move along with the rest, although he was incapable of any movement e Upon his failing to move» the Japanese struck him with a rifle or kicked hin, or actually bayonetted him or shot him. (2) A Japanese drove M s bayonet into a man iv o'anded in the chest and thigh and pushed him along the road arid again bayonetted him several times • The witness, although wounded, was prodded with a bayonet by a Japanese, ！The prisoners' watches, pens, pencils and other property except clothing were taken by the Japanese Their cl&thing was removed during the search« One dead soldier was propped up by the Japanese and made an object of ridicule» About 15〇 nude and wounded prisoners, some with gaping, dirty and blood-clotted wounds, w e r e h i t , k i c k e d , piinched and p r o d d e d ；vith b a y o n e t s , o f t e n in the open wounds, by the Japanese, Many were knocked unconscious by blow? on the head with rifle butts^ Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. (3) Eventually the prisoners were forced into a little shed or garage, The Japanese grunted and prodded them with bayonets until most of the prisoners had scrambled into tue shed, Some were knocked unconscious and others killed. The terrific yells of wounded men in pain were continuous. The shed soon became a hell-hole full of tortured ? groaning and delirious wounded soldiers t . There was not enough room in the shed to put down one‘s foot without stepping on somebody, hater was not given to the prisoners s A large ni.皿-Der were re-wounded by the Japanese, Gt.'iers wf.re bayonetted or shot» R e q u e s t s f o r m e d i c ? . ] , a t t e i r i i o n a n d w a t e で w s r e i g n o r e d , W a t e r was held by Japanese guards just out of reach of some of the prisoners and then thrc’,m away 0 A wt>i;.ndê Indian soldier who had been knocked down by a Japanese and rendered unconscious was, on showing signs of regaining consciousness, bayonetted and heaved into a stream. When his blood-stained face emerged above the water 5 the Japanese shot M m 7 (4) Other ranks were tied up and maltreated. Some were bayonetted . Finally, tiiev were all herded ir.tc a group ano shot with rifles and machine guns a The Japanese removed the bodies, but not the witness who feigned death. Blood was running all over his face, A woimd in bis Dack left a small pool of blood on the ground« Some Japanese came and stood over him and one pushed him with his foot to nake sure he was dead. Another kicked hi in in several places ̂ l ; he Japanese then brought tins of petrol and pom-ed it over the prostrate prisoners, other thsn the witness, some of whom were still conscious, They then, set fire to the petrol anidst screams and yells of pain anj the prisoners were "burnt to death« The witness could smell the bp.rning flesh. H= lay still until the Japanese departed a Lany Japanese parsed hin and kicked him and some pricked him with their bayonets k One actually drove a bayonet into his side between Iiii3 ribs ̂ .Another todc his boots from him c Later t.V.ie witness vras able to free himself from his bonds and net a ^ergesnt arL̂ another soldier who smelt strongly of petrol» They ceen “ogai;he.r v;hen the prisoners were fired upon and they fell wi th the f i r s t burst of firing althougi neither had teen hit - Peb:'o丄 on them but they were not 'burnt The soldier who wo.ls wi llx the sergeant died the following day 4 . P A r in H ム m A) Prosecution D o n m e n t ntmbsred 5〇85 being the Affidavit of L<JcW t SSSKINC-S is now offered for iden七ificati。n and the marked excerpts producpd in evldenee c This Affidavit relates to the gross inadsqaaciies of lining conditions, food and medical stores in the Kuala lAimpur Camp during Fecruary — October,1942, During the first three months.,lbb men died of battle in^uiies and fever. No medical attention was provided by the Japanese« Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. B) Prosecution Document NuEbered 508ル，being the Affidavit of Capt, F , B e ADAI.S is now offered for identification and the marked excerpts produced in evidence, This Affidavit refers to the conditions in Penang Gaol where the witness remained for some two months, five weeks of -'vhich was spent in solitarA' - confinement in the condemned cell, Men were "beaten savagely for no apparent reason. Sanitary arrangements were vile and sick men refused admission to hospital. C) Prosecution Document nunbered 5C24- B, the Affidavit of Haj. K , H, STEVENS, is offered for identification and the marked excerpts produced in evidence 9 This document states that in Larch, 1945 ? P/Vs were billeted in an overcrowded camp in J0H0I.E and that insanitary latrines caused a great deal of dysentery, The prisoners laboured at making defence works for the Japanese and owing to the lack of precautions, several men were killed and injured "by falls of earth. Hours of work were long and arduous since there was no proper air supply。 The witness was told that owing to the prisoners being engaged on security work, in the event of invasion, they would be killed» Conditions for siirgery were unfavourable at the camp and despite the existence of a large and well equipped hospital,six miles away， permission to evacuate esses there, wa refused. D) Frosecution Document numbered 5375， the Affidavit of B . G» MAFLERaCK is offered for identification and the marked excerpts offered in evidence. > This Affidavit states that the witness and three other men were taken prisoners near ICGLiil。 They were roped together and driven seme thr^e miles a'C which point, two of the prisoners were ordered out of the truck and taken to a creek about 20 yards away, Here t h e w e r e shot with a torrmy gun in the presence of the witness„ The bodies were left where they fell and the Japanese returned to the truck 0 5. CIVILIANS IN LALAYA* A) Frosecution Document numbered 5139， the sworn statement of CHE1."/ S\K"AY L L O K is produced for identification and the excerpts marked therein, tendered in evidence» This statement relates thst the witness and nine other Chinese were beaten with rifle butts into unconsciousness st Batu Eahat Police Station in February, 1942, On 1 March over 100 Chinese Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. and European civilians were put in lorries end taken in batches of thirty five into the jungle ！, They were machine-gunned and "bayonetted, The witness waited until the Japanese had gone and then escaped e B) Prosecution Document numbered ,the sworn statement of AHLAD BIN CKETEE is now offered for identification and marked excerpts produced in evidence. This docunent states that towards the end of 1943， while the witness was employed as a Sub-\varder in Penang Gaol, he saw a Japanese Ivi,P. torture a Chinese woman of middle agec • "VKsssio opened this woman's trousers and burnt the hair around her pelvic parts with a lighted piece of paper. Then Wassio tied a rope roimd her waist, and, after binding it round her wrists, attached the other end to s motor cycle: Then V;assio proceeded to drive the motor-cycle at a quicker pace than it was possible to run, The woman was pulled along the ground about ten yards and then lost consciousness The witness saw Chinese, Malay and Indian prisoners tortured and stated thst three Chinese died after undergoing water torture. C) Prosecution. Document numbered 5142, the sworn statement of Miss YOKG LEN L1CI, is produced for identification and the marked excerpts thereof, offered in evidence. This doc-aiaent refers to the torture of the witness's grandmother who was suspended from the ceiling for an hour while heavy weights were thrown at her legs and feet. The witness further states th^t her grandmother was dragged along behind a motor cycle until unconscious, as described in the evidence of the preceding witness AHLAD. The witness herself was beaten and burned in Penang Gaol where her grandmother later died as a result of her maltreatment, D) Prosecution Document numbered 5143, the sworn statement of V“ T, DAVIES and the statement OJ: Mrs, A, C-. KATIxIGASU, exhibited thereto, is now tendered for identification and the excerpts marked offered in evidence, This document relates that the witness was. taken to IF Oh Police Station in August,194-3) where she was tortured and beaten in many ways, and accused of being a spy. Evidentiary Doeiur.ent No, 54*32, Pe^eヲ上 At Kempe.itai HQ her child was suspended from a tree vjith a fire blazing ttnderneath her, whilst the witness herself was tied to a loost and beaten with a stick. The child was eventually released e At Batu Gajah gaol the witness was imprisoned for life, after having been sentenced to death. Food was inadequate, the cells 兄ere verminous and filthy, Tnere were no bed coveringニ and no facilities for bathing. The witness finally lost the use of her legs but has since recovered» DOCUI®KT.NO。 b'241 P/IGE 1 1 . V X 3 9 0 0 6 Ma.ior I c h n K e v i n L L O Y D of A.rmy H e a d q u a r t e r s make oath and says 1 . I a m a n o f f i c e r of 'che A u s t r a l i a n M i l i t a r y F o r c e s . 2. Annexec' hereto aj'Ci tarkod ' ; B" •： true copy of an affidavit sworn by Terence Charl^i TREVOR on 11.A.pr. 19^6 which I have in my custody in the course of my duties。 3. The original affidavit cannot be made available immediately as it is required for trials of minor v/ar criirinals. Sworn before me at ISLBCTTR；^.) this 27 day of May 1946 J。 Lloyd /s/ M a j o r R. D. Crompton」j>丄 丄 An officer of the Australian Military rorces DOCl ; " 玎0。ジ241 P4GE 2. On Liiis eleventh day of /Ipri.l, One teousand nixis hur^.-sd a n d forty-3ix 5 l_Terance Charle?： Trevor 5 of 14 Ponsonhj?- P d e , Seaforth, in tne S t a t e of T'ew 3ov,th ' T :.les,マoolclasser, makes oath and saj^s as follows.:" 1. A.s NXヲ5521 Pte T 3 r\, TK3V0H of 2/30 Inf Bn I was attached to E ^oy. Portion of î y section, which inrlv.ded 3 b e s i d e s m y s e l f , P t o , J . K . B L 1 2 T , N X 2 7 4 6 4 P t e . F . G . C O L L E T T , ra6712, Pte ： OCHI^Fii, K 5 0 O 6 P t e I'TLLIC^N a n d Pte 3ン"。S'U'B, were ^ut off fro」！ the remainder of our Coy whilst returning from the GE^iS A.rnb-ush7[ 2. In •へn .?.tteri'ot to re七urn to ur.r Battalion lines, we became lost anド wandered in the .jnn«;le and rubber plantations f or apororimately 14 days. It about 01(^0 hrs on 1 Feb A-2 we were captured "by a Jap p a t r o l。 Tho p a t r o l '«;as ^.lso acconpaniec 1 b y a few '^.layan native s.J 4. \fter being taken by the Jap patrol we were trans- port 3d by a Samrian, we had prsviorsl?/ com'-andeerec! 5 to Patrol HQ and then to LE2 T G*IA 5 where we spent the night in the local マaol, Here we were given food and ne:rt morning we wsre given bicycles and with a Jap anc Malayan escort set out f o r a r r i v i n g there a t aoproxira?.tely l8C0 hrs on 2 l eb 42. 5. Here [we Tirera handed over to 气 group of Jap officers q u a r t e r e d \n the Sultan•'£; i':.laoe n e a r the ' V k R Rivar,] The jap Officer in coc^ancl tola vs that we would be held as P0 T: /s and timt we shovlcl ha-e to 7,-ork, "e agreed to this ancl were ^iven food anc. place to sleep. f6. IText morning 3 LEB whilst: he ID ing to load a truck on which the J.-.ps were ^^'irt t「proceed [_to ”.V.0F PiH/lT. we were told to line tip tn t?Jc。ソ ‘..'nd り ed together with sign；?.!可ire, wrist to wrist. - 7 . "' r e w e r e than led b y the Jap O f f i c e r a c r o s s a la^Ti anr a s k e d if "ws would like a D i 3 t o l to c o ^ i t sricide. ""e refused o.nC. we vere then T.fcked if vie hef anything to say. I said "that W3 shorlo. bs held as PCX厂 ,hut; t h i s u i g n o r e d anc the Jap Officer.； with the ？;ords "You will soon see your mothers and .fathers", left tis, On the oT>oosits side of tha la可n about 25 away a Jar> soldier lay" behind Bren Ovn vhlch pointing in ovt clirectl The Jap so"：.c'isr onanad ブ ir-3 ラ-/atchsd >sy the Jap officars. Q , Pte C o n h r a n a -.'as h i t ano. iirr: ec l a t e l y .'ell to the g r o u n d , Ptes -nd っ1:,.^1) w s r e t h a n hit and f e l l to the ground 5 dragging r̂ e -'.'ith them. The «1ユつ continued to fire "?;hilst we て7sre lying on the ground m C J r：onld he Ar the b a l l e t s thudcin^; into CC T , T -3 ! .:̂ "‘ 研 h o コ‘？-s l ^ i n ^ ?.lon;-;sid3 •r?e. The Jap then caasecl fire, 10. ifter a short tine I r^.isad ray h3飞(，but corld see no sl^n of tha J?,tis, I u.ntisd ny wrists with my tsath and untiec the others' also. Pte was daac： ? Collett unconscious and the 3,sわたinder -?oimded •"•"Ut still alive. / r , . I D O C m孤丄‘ N O , 5 2 4 1 ？/VGS 3 On 7 Feb 42 we set out for K U X M LU!!PUR. On 8 Feb arrived at Kuala Lumpur and were t&ken to PUDU Gaol there were approximately 500 British and kust Prisoners. 15. On 6 FeD we were were ta'Ken by the Jap Staff Officers in a car to Kluang where we met approximately A.ust P5SW and 2 British Brigadiers in the Kiuang Gaol, Brigadier's name I remember was PiYFTER。 17. On 9 Feb 42 Fte S.\:'S died from tetanus! and was buried in gaol grounds, kftax spending eight months at Pudu Gaol we were taken to Changi Gaol. 18. I was unable to discover the names of any Jap Officers or men responsible fcr imrrdering my colleagues and I wai also unable to obtain anything that would help to identify their iinits. 19. The dates that I have before mentioned are abso- lutely correct and may assist in identifying Jap units in the area at that time. SWORN by the abovenamed. deponent,) Terence Charles Trevor, at Sydney, ) T. C. TREVOR /s/ this eleventh day of April, One ) thousand nine hundred and forty-six) Before me L. SHEFFIELD J。 P。 （？） Exhibit "B" - This is the document marked Exhibit "B" re- ferred to in the affidavit of VX39006 Mai J.K. Lloyd sworn before me this twenty- seventh day of May 194-6 as being pro- duced and shewn to him at the time of his swearing his s a i d affidavit. / s / R „ Do C r o m p t o n . C a p t . An officer of the Australian Military Forces. 1丄》 I dragged the other members of my party who were alive into the shade of some hibiscus trees nearby and made them as comfortable as possible. During the afternoon of that day BLAJID and COLLETT died. TX T LLIGA3I survived till the m o r n i n g of 4 F e b 4 2 , A_fter K u l l i g a n d i e d , S:\riS, w h o w a s wounded in the leg. and myself attempted to escape,..、フe were pestered by Malayans who followed us wherever— we went but finally threw them off anc"! spent the night in an evacuated native hov.se in ^UAF:。 12. On 5 Feb 42 we were recaptured；by different Japs and taken to Fslayan HQ b u i l d i n g in ？^lir. There we were told we were Prisoners of War. 13. I was of the opinion that these Jans were contem- plating murdering SAI-*S and m y s e l f , but we were saved, I think, by the intervention of some Jap Star尸 Or： icers who arrived in two cars. 14. After a conference betwasn the ごap Staff Officers and our captors, we wers told by a Jap Sgt 9 that we were to be taken to KLU!\NG to a prison camp. ' r e cfpent the night in a h o u s e a d j o i n i n g I' f alayan H Q w h e r e I w a s a D l e to d r e s s Saras' wound. e e w r .e 6 2 h 1 4 w 27 One 飱び Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. Aixyrn:丄ェ..ぶ cke^O coii u i c i : •jvideiice talccn at Sydney on 12 November 1945 before Ir. Justice I.aiisfieldo I1XO71I43 Lieut• Ben Charles H^CI、2EY, 2/29 Battalion, Leiiij； duly swcrn r ^ive the following evidence： 1.y ̂ uli number, nsmej vark and unit are 1G：-71148 Lieut。Een Charles Ha-laiey, 2/29 Bat baiion» home address is 12 Beneご.on“ Crescent, B3il3vue ilil]., Sydneyo On the evQiiin^ of 17 January 19々2 2/29 Battalion made contact with the eneiiy at Bakri and from the morning of 18 January the battle was at it. height 9 On 19 January 1942 we joined up with. 2/19 Battalion scane lit.じニ distance soutli of Balerio ,'iFrom Bakri we withdrew to Parit Sulong, wlaer' we were held up by a bridge and strong Japanese forces defending the bridge® uQ made a stand there from the morning of 21 January until we were captured the follcuTin^ day®‘ and TO had very heavy casualties. The following is a suLBiary of the happenings between 22 January 1942 and 21 Iviarrili 194^ inclusive.^ エ do not loiow the nances of the Japanese responsible and I do not kiow of own laiowledje what unit it was tlia•‘ captured us at xkrit 3'ulon^j but I have heard sabseouently frcm Col* IJappe that it was the Japanese Imperial Guards Division} these soldiers were bigjer than the usual Japanese soldiers a » !• r.Iany men comprising A.I.Fo and Indian Anuy soldiers - the majorii severely wounded 3 some of whoia had been lying in truci^ f vans etc。, up to four days v/ith necessarily limited medical attention and were subjected to tho treatment briefly outlined below at PDRIT JULOIKJ by 1«JcA» soldiers• 2. Priot to the closing in of IJA soldiers エ hiyself had been wounded in four places making me inc印able of m l l d n ^ and greatly restrictias any moveiiient« (a) a bullet through the left lo^ below the laiee causing a fracture. (b) shell splinter in baclc # (c) shell splinter in outside of right calf. (d) sholl splinter in rear of ri^iat laiee # 3® The3e soldiers made up sane of the casualties of the 65 Fd Bty (2/15 Fd R e ^ t O； 4 A Tk Hest^j 2/19 Inf. Bnj 2/29 ^ Ba t and other units of the 43 Indian Bde, under uriiich coiiinand these A , Iム forces had been placed® These soldiers liad been gathered toother during Evidentiばy Document -ji pa^e 2 the days prior to and including the 22 januc^ry 1942> and uei,e by 1200 hrs 22 jqi u&ry 1抑2 asseubled - soiae in trucks 9 cthei s lyin^ about in various positions (many of v;hom because of wounds had been unable to gain the shelter of a vehicle) - on or about the roadway iaiaediately ITORTEI of the PAKIT 狐 C T G Bridge 0 Etieî y fire of all types continued for some time to pour in froia all directions upon ths vehicles and personnel uho had gathered along a shor't section of the road after an order hud been given for all troops who were able to clo so to vacate the position. Because of lack of unv/ounded soldiers and scarcity of ..nd aim.xuiition very little retaliation fire vent out from this group in return for that of the enon: another officer aid エ Gperated for as lon^ as aiamunition was available a Bren gun from beneath a utility truck in order to in some way add to the comparative lack of fire from our position and to perhaps lengthen by at least a short period the time wheh the eneiuy would inevitably close in oi our position^ arid thei^by enuble those who had been able to get av/ay to have a better opportunity of travelling a fair distance before the japs had use of the road and were able to push forward and perhaps prevent our men from gaining contact v/ith our forces from whoia we had been cut off for several days© 、 5o ^bout 1430 hrs all fire from the convoy ceased and shortly after- wards from all directions especially TIST Japanese soldiers closed in on our positionsゥ indications unidat much unintelligible yelling, were made for our personnel to assemble ；at a point TXST of the road and over a parit which run by the side of the road<> 6 0 sorjie of the fit uisn .-of whom there were very few - were allowed to assist the more unfortunate; others wers compelled to ioove ionediatel^ to the asse.i.:ibly point and regaino Tiiis as. emblin^ was a slow process as many were incapable of moveinent» I,笮n were lyin^ dboat in all directions o Some dead3 Liany seriously wounded who had been unし!)lo to gain any shelter whatever bein^ incapable of any noveEient # Other unable to make much p r o c e s s f had nonaged to crawl or drag theiaselves to one of the many velicles and there lie e;diauctedo Jt ン;iie following txe some of the acts coLmltted by the Japanese during the process of asseznblin^ the men 0 (a) rn raanj' occasions a Jap approaching レ wounded man； would indicate for him to icdvg along v;ith the rest恭 hov/ever > sometimes the soldier would be incapable perhaps of any movement whatever• Upon failin^ to do as the Jap indicated c the letter would immediately beらin yelling und mしJcirio si^as - still no moveinent by the T-ounded soldier whereupon he would be bashed about with tlie rifle 9 kicked, and on soi.ie occasions eventually either run Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. through many times uith the bayonet 9 or with the rifle close to his liead - shot This was the fate of a good nt^ny youndsd men 0 ^wiwi.imin (b) gometiriiGS men hobbling towards the little bridge over the parit which led to the assembly place p and others who were crawlir would have a jap come up to them and he dealt a torrible blow, sometinBS to the body but nicst a].ways to the head c with the butt of the rifle o s。辺e v/ere knocked d。T/n r i/her-reupon t.hey would be kicked^ (c) The fcite cf others was to be hurried when thsy were already movj.n^, as fast as tli3.ir wounds v/ould し l l o w , by some japs using a yai"iGty of iatlicds some some often strikin 0 vich their rifles and other tlaes Liany prodding the men v/ith their bayonets 0 (d) &Me man bcd.ly wounded in the chest und thi^h was making to the bridge Tery slowly by crawling and d r a ^ i n ^ himself alonら the groundo He was hit several tires bv japs Lut was incapable of moving faster g A Jしp drove his bayonet faito the man and made as ir to push hiiTi along the ed^e of the road<, The man fell IU11 length face downwards ? whereupon the jap thrust in his bayonet several times und. then left hirii； moving off to some other unfortun- ate who would also be brutally treated to inoke him more faster a (e) A jap came to niy position,; He pushed another officer ? who was v/ith me and standing, then indicated for me to icove also エ poinisd out that エ WLcS unable to do so9 uhereupon he began kicl:ii\; me,- but even knov. r in^ what was wanted and with the ur^e to avoid this foul treatment ? エ was unable to stuid 0 He then struck me several tiioes with liis rifle c then prodded ne with his bayonet 9 rinaD.ly he let the officer cone ba?-k but even v/ith his help エ was uno ble to vralk - niy left lag bein^ 'cisslass and ry right altogether too painful > The Japs started screainin^ aguin and began belting us both with his ri.fle butt 0 Eventually ? with the aid of another, エ managed to get alon“ by swinging uoyself on their shoulders^ V/hen crossing the small bridge the three of us were struck many times by the japs on both sides® ば 、 B 7 these various iiieans all the prisoners were either herded into the clZTQcl or lied by shooting or bayoneting ? or left dyin^ on the iroad.J fe) Upon approaching the bridge over the parit all personnel had to take off any equipment and throw on the road watches3 pens, pencils 一 anything visible to the japs except clothing<> (h ； After crossing tlie bridge 3 alinrst everyone bein^ hit as he did so with a rifle by one or all of the japs who were on both Evidentiary Document No, 5 4 3 . 2 Page, 3. sides, uil prisoners had to remove their clothing except their boots しnd socks と..nd putties 3 which was tLrov;n into a heap # The clothes were thrown axaongst the prisoners after a considerable tiiiie had elapsed e during which they had be-in searched (i) One woundsd man v/ho had been placedby our own people upon a table forn and put inside an office truck, seen by a jap* The table form was d r a p e d out uid 3e ft leaning against the back of the trucko "phe fellou had been dead for some time and becoi^a stiff« The body was then propped up in an upright position on the tabletop® situated in this position, it created enormous amuseiosnt to the .jap concerned, and w a s』o b j e c t of ridicule to many japs afterwards» 8® yjlien 6.11 bad. assembled the prisoners v:ere maue to sit in the nude in a circle within a ring of jap guards 0 There were approximately 110 soldiers £-.nd 35 to 40 エ n d i a a 」 o w soldiers® $• I‘.?my Japanese troops were by this time moving alon b the road., some on foot, others on bicycles ancl inany in lorries (both j-、p and civilians) r They v/ere halted often and on these occasions m y v/ould coioe over to lx-‘ve a look at the prisoners - about 1_50 nude bodies 9 unshaven, dirty and blood clottedj sone fresix L-nd mc.ny reopened by movement and still b l e e a m ^ freely• To the japs the prisoners were of great interest, some showing mirth, others ill temper and wickedness; roany hit or kicked (or both) and punched und prodded men with bayonets, often if possible kiCKin^, where a wound lay open^ and so great was their satisfaction upon any visible evidence of p<uin that the dose was often repeated, 10 • One jap tormented prisoners by drawing his sword and wipinし the blood off it by repeatedly dipping it in the water in the parit and drawinし it over cn officer 1s throat e Others he torments by making as though to run thein through or cutting thoir throats 0 11» All those on the outside of the group, and particularly those closest to tlie road were treated w o r s t 1 was one of those near the road h^vin^ been amongst tlie last to arrive at the assembly point, and was, like others 5 kicked f struck and bettered many times ? niost always with ri丄les uid on soue occasions with sword stabbers^ ^lie jc.ps most always used their rifle butts^ The wound in icy back attracted the attention of ru.iiy who whenever possible took delight in kicking and belting the place where a wound was e:rcosed f 0 1と• Il&ny prisoners were knocked unconscious when deじlt terrific blows on the head with rifle butts # jyidenticxry iDocument '；う。43 pa^e 5o 13• The jap in charge of the prisoners was (Pressed quite differently from the personnel of the gusrdr with dark coloured tunic f breeches, knee hi^h boots. arr£3d with pistol and sword with some braid at the hilt and carrying a l^r^e map case© He gave orders to the guard© 14• The prisoners were forced into a little shed or parage which was altogether too sinall in viev oi the following circumstances and actions, as given below； (a) The japs grunted c yelled, kinked.、hit and prodded with bayonets until most of t.he prisoners had scrambled into the shed # fb) so:监 were knocked unconscious and others killed during the process^ (c) spiae walked on top of the more helpless^ mounded men were pushed and fell up on others and terrific yells of pain were practically continuous., (d) Those closest to the o])en3.ng were first to "be put into the shed v:hich aoon became a srinl:ing 9 scrambling hell hole fall of tortured : groa:aing f delirious wounded soiaiers® (e) Those still fit were unable to do anything except for those iiimediately around them<> (f) The shed was n ch too siaalls fellows near tiae doorway, being hit, kicked and prodded scrambled in t endeavoured in vain to avoid hurtin^ their comrades« There T?as not room even to put a foot down without stepping 011 some part cf some body already with bodies above ^nd below (g) «Ag“in and again fellows were forced in on top of others• 15* r.抑y men were £jrcaning Biost of the time and there were yells f repeated time and time agaj.u ̂ by njariy for water > it was hours and hours and T7ith some a day or niore sirc^ they had had a driiik, for water and those to issue it had been scarce dur.in^ the four* days of the progress along iive miles of road e ]7titer was not gi/en to the prisoners• Six officers were talc en frc^i the group and put together- 1 about six or seven yards away 0 ょレ Requests v;ere made tit firじ"b and i;hen these were ignored demands were iaade of the j&p in charge to provide mediccil attention and water for the prisoners and also sijokin^ materials (of which xoiich of the Evidentiary Document No, 5 4 3 . 2 Page, 3. prisoners o;;n T/as lyinし in a heap nearby) y but these v/ere ignore This jap could read but refused to speak Kn^iishc 18 # ^ little o not her move uas nade and cguin the prisoners were subjected to violence and terrific brutalities by the guard3« This tiroe all the ORs were put into two rooms off soiiie coolie qu“rterss> This was a long process j ni^ny had to be carried and. although not far, steps iiad to be climbed； the dead were not “llowed to be left, their bodies too, hud to be t^ken into these roomsc The worst mounded were 。gしin treated wickedD.y? they were ez^ected to move as fit ana when f-ilin^ to do so Y'ere struck : kiehed and ； unched, i^uny incapable of any hioveinent without asL.istu.nce were bashed on the head uiid soiiie ivere killed by bayonettin。und a few were shot «> ..ltogether 5 a lar^e numbQ- were woundea further by tiae japs c . IS*- "fuen all the ops were in the rooLis the doors were closed, The si:-c officers v/ere made to sit on the steps in front of one of these rooms« Requests jnd deiiiwinds for Hectic.ul Muter taid smokes were again i ^ o r e d “nd cJ.thouJa these wore r-tdo biiiie “nd ti:^e again tlirou^hout the r/hole period^ they were ignored by the 了し、];in charge 21® shortly ^fterr/ards こn Indian soldisr who had been hiding in one of the niuny vcliicles (\/hich nere bein^ inspected Laid searched by the Japs) v/LiS brought into the building© hac' a bad wound on one hレndダ the top pcirt of which hud been bloim away, and one leし of his trousers vas saturated with blood as though he were bleeding frozn sorae wound in his thigh © H© T^as ixoiiiediately struck to the grotrnd by a jap and h.is pockets cleaned out« 22 • nlie G.̂ s who had been jaiixied into the sr：-11 roorns v/ere scranbling to the windows, groaning all the tir::e,，and yelling tine and time again for water and to be let out p . » 3̂<> The noise cf battle was j.ong 込one•名 rouhere except in the far distuice could be heard even “ occasionally, an eneiny plane flew overheads 24c Still down the road were Icrry alter lorry of Japanese soldiers cOid riich artillerj' ocuiproent, 7ery seldom -^ow was there a halt but each time the convoy did stop jap soldiers iir/ccriably Cc..me across to the bui丄iin“ to see the prisoners a 25• L^'ter, muny stuff cars c^xie along, two of which were preceded by tank and motor cyclists and folloyed similarly^ They halt3d in front of the place where the prisoners were aad ir^ny japs came over a They were net by the jo.p in charge of the prisoners amidst 上nuch di outing, Evidentiary Docuraent》5043 salutin^, and boian^ by this J•じ.p and the personnel of the ^uard» Other jc.p soldiers .in tlie areし ulso gave their attention to the party v/hich consisted ol'officers and seme very senior ones 26• one of these ncy^ arrivals wes outstanding and presuiacibly the comander of the Japanese forces in the area a short, stcoky fellov; f A body jUL,rd kept close with Lim always n He was well dressed, his sv;ord hanging low ana uith a great amount of bror/n cord at the hilt, knee hi^L boots and s^urs all ^listenin^o The attitude of the Japs to this officer was as though he i.as sci^ethirie, f^r 逝 d above any of .tliei'ii, as though tc theiix he was as a God a 27• lie lookad ^t the officer prisoners, who were n d e to i^ove off the steps “nd stands then mounted the steps, the bod^ guard keep in“ very close, una looked tlxrou^h the randoY； ut the mass inside of one of the rooms^ 28o Upcn leavin。tlie bui.ldinしlie spoke to one of the officers acaoui ぼ y i n 。 h i m in turn passed, on v:Lut rere ^vurently orders to tLe j^p in charge of the prisoners» 2S # Leaving a couple behind this p“rty tiien departed<> igain came the yelling, bowing j and salut.in^^ 八t first the tanks 9 then the cycles then the c“rs moved off- and after tレem v/ere hiore cycles and tanks• Alon^, the r。UL wherever Japanese wore to be seen9 they paid their compliments to these two cars very reverently^ 30% One of those reroainin^ was asked to し l l o w water to be given to the prisoners, iiî ny oi' whom were all the time yelling for it, A little -JULAY boy v;ho h«_TD been v:ith the convoy for SOIIB time was told by hi;a to 0 e t soi::e. Cn returning, however, the j"ap in charge noticed tlie container and iixiniediately hit it out of his hands and then kicked the kiddy o 31• He was asked abcut medical attention but s<uid that Japanese riediCc.l men were too tu：^、 L d e r asked for water, he said thut if the jap in chur^e said, ”ro% there wと.uotl ing he could do about tlie inatter4 •；/hen asked could the cigarettes be ^ot fron the heap of prisoners' belongings he repliedt "lyot yet9 “ 32等..nother ^roup of jvps arrived Ljia took imny photographs and rn^de notes•ふjfter this -./as coiipleted, the cijarettcs and water which had been held out by the personnel of the b uard to the prisoners, some of whom hud been let out of the rooms for the purpose of bein^ phcto^r^phed a but held, just teyond their reach- were retained by the Japs nd throv/11 respectively, which wade worse the feelings of the already near ciespc irin^ Evidentiary i:,ccuLient 於 5043 page 8 33• The 〇rs v r erc a^ain forced into the rccn9 3b* The indicin soldier, Vvho had been knocked down in front cf the building, was showing signs of regaining consciousnesso lie began to sit up bat the jap in charge kicked him over again• He sat up again and this tiiss was viciously kicked many times, jor a vthiie the Indian lay still, gro.xiir^。nd jcibbeiiii^o Tne jup yelled at him ana took a rifle from cne of the guards〔aid bashed the jndian, then thrust the bayonet into him time taid time again c T^on he was headed into the parit by the jujp fchrustin^ ths bayonet in'GC his body dr.d heaving 0 A few secobds and 'che terribly blood-ptajueo. s horrible face emerged above the v/ater and the jap levelled the rifle and fired. The head jerked but refined above water there v-cis anctner shot tmd this time the head disappeared e 35 • The traffic goinj south was not FO thick now &nd moving more freely, occasionally a met or cyclist or a c し了 6 oing north., There were still a few who left the read to see the prisoners or to poke about the vehicles inquisitively, some o c c a s i o n a l l y kicking a body t o see if any life was left in 3 6 . About, sunset the guard,，b-3gan to move about the house» jjbichine e>uns were brought from whsro thsy had be an resting between tours of duty and placed in front of the building r 37• The officers vere then tiod together by the following methods• T^o guards approached the officers undoing as they c^rae a sinall coil of rope which they tool: from their belts。 ^ae officers were then made to stand, two of theia unable to do so without assistance and both incapable of walkings Eoth hands of each officor ^vere tightly tied behind his bじcjk。 After this； another len^tU of rope v/as tied to the wrists, passed up under the chin and around xhe neck and then down again to the wrists, where it was pulled tight t thus forcing the hands well up the back and L^lcing the rope terribly tight against the throat, ^ e second rope wus not cut but was passed on to tlie wrists of the next officer, where a similar procedure T;as carried out j then again on to the . next and so ^n, so that a•口 マぐ:1.1 as loakin」iroi e secure the t y i ^ of each they were all linked toge + her^ i^rin^ this process, the two Japs treated the officers iinrijorcifully 8 jerking じhe ro^pes this way and that ana many times lashing theii： sevei/3ly dloat ohe head ana body with loose lengths, often }cicl:j.ns ferociously at soiue j/cxt of the bcay that was swaying or s•じuinblhi^ - through the japs own tr^atnent - in the wron^ aireCT/ion for them +0 do vliale^ they wish^dr, Eユrin^ this procedure I was Kicked in tha le^s and inched a beat tlie body and head, particularly the letter 3 Tibuny tiLies ? tliis maix?ly bejoaune I was unable to stand properly and each tiina a rops was: pulled エ svrayed this way or that, thus continually hindering these japs in their work Evidentiary Document ぶ 5^43 page 9- 38• This done f th广 OUs were brought out from the rooms. One by one as they came dcwn tho steps they were tied brutally with their hands behind their backsj the first was then connected to the second but only frciu wrist to wrist, not over or around the neck as with the officers, then from the second to the third and so on, the first then beiii£) tied to the nearest of iLe S U H I I line of officers• 39® The suj^ly of rope run out unu soiae jしps vwre brin f o in^ pieces of wire and vith these were tyinら up n^ny of the prisoners® 40• coinpl‘.ints were inade to the j‘.ps in charge re^urdin^ this ill- treatuent • rearly every 211̂01 was l^sheci, mostly しbout the head, caid kicked by the japs# Often a soldier who was more difficult to tie because of his wounds preventing his moveLient, v/us subjected to lashings (sometineE now vath wire)ぃnd kicking• occasioijolly, another gu“rd seしin u his fellow soldier beating a prisoner, would rush up and add to th-t prisoner's misery by striking hira -/ith his rifle butt. 41• This h. bit of one jap coining to another i/7lien that other was ill-treatin^ a prisoner, so as to add his efforts also, occurred very often• 42« The jap in chc.r^e took no notice of the complaints. 43* It wa^ necessary to move the first lot well av/ay from the steps of the building to allow the others to come down from the rooms and be tied* They were shifted back towards the shed which before had been filled v/ith prisoners« "hen the line of officers moved, one of them fell iiiiiK;diately # “fter bein^ kicked in allふ,arts of the body and bein^ struck many times vith rifle butts, he wus cut free from the chain. I fell cifter very little movement• jhe japs became more annoyed apparently because エ was the second one to f^ll iuicl 1 suffered similar i丄丄 treatment, but to a greater extent. 1 vas kicked in all parts of the body end struck nv ny tinies on the head <und body Kith rifles« One kick split ny right eyebrow which then hun^ down over the eye t the blood pouring over my face, “fter some kicks <̂ nd hits the japs would force the others alorg, m thisT/ryl was a r c h e d a ehort distance• Then v/oulu coiawace a^^in another rei^n of blows and then I would be ^ r ^ ^ e d a fe〜7 uore feet • 2ventu^lly f the japs cut me loose una left me lyix% upon the ^rouiic. in a rnich worse, pしinful ^nc aching condition th-n before• ^ho vouiid in cy b. ck hw.d been kicked Liany tiiries, which iicpt it bleeding freely, as were all the otlier wounds しnd cuts エ had r e c e i v e d . , 44® Tov. r c.rds the end, either the supply of rope oiid wire was exhausted or the Jc;ps grew tired of tyin乙 the prisoners as a few numbering about 20, were left untied• The rexnainder ..ere tied in しroups of 20 to 25 ITvidentic.ry Document 3043 pa^e 10. each* Ihe dead were left in the room # 45. The prisoners were then m d e to rnove along the front of the buildings towLtrcls, and then around, the south end. There were n^riy who were unable to move ^t し 1 1 , a n d others because of beix^ tied, could not ^et the necessary assistance, so tliL.t many stuhibled, some fell, causing others、lso to f、‘ll* These were then kicked and struck, and bayoneted, until us ny us could do so were b^ain stunuin^, und then the line proceeded slowly, soi.ie still bein^ dr^. -ed f of ihich a few occasionally raised tlic:rx£elves to their knees onl^ to be a^cdn thrown off balance* l ̂ ny of these were tLcn freed fron the line and left lyin^• The japs ^rasped otiiers し nd dr し。。ed tlx em ulon^, some \ ere kicked, sone struck f others ae^pl^ prodded with bayonet 4 〜 T h e prisoners were then herded into a group and the Ljassacre v/hich followed was to say the least most violent and wickea. 47* Rifles and iî ucliine ^uns belched forth a storiu of death 一 a few f e l l , a group f e l l , ^ t o r the first i-.hile a few reiiiained stLjiding - these were either struck by rifle fire or hit by a burst from a machine toUn # Rifle una liidChine ^un fire -.;ent tov/ard any person \?ho yelled. jiriir^ \ius indiscriinate and 1 ふ,ny men had fallen not because of death but because tliey ĥ -.u. either been pulled down by others falling, or because the indiscriuate firin G had only added to the number of their wounds cane', tlie p d n they suffered, 4S• Some jup soldiers then returned to the front of the building, and be^^n tukinし aw^y the bodies of those who hac been cut free from the cliuiiis« These they draし。ed round the corner in the same direction as tiic others had been H e n . 4/• They left behind only one body\ this bein^ the furthest away from tixc bodies of the t\-:o officers who had previously been cut free from tlie c： ̂ in. This w^s ェ》 To Lie the f^te of the prisoners was quite eviacnt f ^nd ^ y only hope of escape Y•しs to endeavour to niuke the Japs bolieve tL^t ェ wぃs dent. 9 and ^ crhups stand し chcxnce of bein^ left lyin^ there # ェ kne\‘./ tii ぃt ェ shoulcj hcjve ap x ear eel de^d enough vrovidea that ェ r e f i n e d quite still• Blood had. been runnii^ over hiy face from the \.oun6. in eyebrow cxiic, also froiu ^ few cuts in lily head which had bled fret；丄3,參ェ was hatlesc; h^a not done ray hair for a^es；ェびas unshaven for more th^n five da^^s； i^r h‘‘ir v/^s matted . ith blood and dirt； niy neck anc shirt top v/ere very bloody5 the yvoancl in xay back still bleed- iu 乙 - n o . si.ム11 pool of blood on the ground j Liy shirt torn to ribbons and s-tur-tec. with blood belo\; the Lound and all dlon^ the side j my shorts were also blooo.st>_ineci # ; y ri^ht leg from the knee dov/n Has also Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. The prisonei s v-erc then set alight, and uaid screuias and yells of fright 9 nervousness and delirium, burnt to deaths 5 3 • ェ l a y outside the building unable to move even just a little to a loss achii^ position. ' M i s t there the outburst of curses uic" yells tl•ふt had accomp-nied tlie be^imiin^ of the firin^ aid had since somewhat subsided, wc-s not very Ionら after revived again• 5ko I coula see the flickers of a fire v:hich occasionally would burst out very brightly 0 The prisoners were bein^ burnt, and ::uny were scire、minらしnd yelling terribly» T^ere c^.^ to me the smell of burning r“ら and then vh^ t WGS just as distin^uishab 1 e the odor of burnt fleshy エ h.. a iuanしもed to be »deLtdt as f^r as some of the J"aps vrere concerned and now was determined even more than ever before that no natter wliしt pain エ was suffering, how .'.y body aclieu s or how uncoid'ort-ble or ul:、t crumps ェ had to endure s ェ T/OUIC rem,in 'dcud* until such time W...S the departeds Tl'-^ou^hout the whole period japs Ccuî e I'roiii tlie roac. to see what WL s らoinし oru In passing me sometinies エ would only be pushed, other tii-ies completely ignored； and on other oco^sions individuals acted uxirriercifullyo How muny time ェ was kicked, bettered >dth rifles by tliose ；T“ps passing,ェ know not 9 but all the tine ェ had to laaintoin that lifGlees attitude* bloody； tho old b<und^e on my left leg was Ion毡 since dirty and dis— coloured)； one bayonet hud 幺one tlirou^h the bandage and entered ^he calf above the exit hole of the bullet j also above the back of xny left boot another bayonet wound bled freely. エ 1 二y quite still, very uncoijfortable』d ^chin^ as エ was still bound securely and i, infully tigLt ； the rope still be inし around njy neck prevented ne frou stretcliin 0 ir^y arms, my hands still bein^ in "die vicinity of 可 shoulder blades, sorr̂ e japs cc：丄.e, stood over ue for a while, c.nd レs if to nake ^ure one pushed Lie several tiiaes with nis boot I しlloフed nay body to i:ove quite freely in whatever direction it was forced. One or nx>re of tlieiu then kicked iuQ in several,laces- ‘*ith this they left leaving a few behind to fire in the direction of any sound or v;lienvor anyone moved c 5 0 • ？レny japs went to tlie roud and returned briii^in^ ia^ny of the tins of petrol which vere c rried on our vehicles,, 51• They proceeded to pour t： is over the prisoners, i^ny of îhoiu were still conscious & in 2し 3 p Evidentiary Document No, 543.2 Page, 3. コレ jap personHEl for a^es iQointained a patrol about the area* Occasionally a shot or shots would be fired• M^ny tiiees one or more of them in their v/uiaerin^s Coine across 可 body j some just passed by, others v^ould satisfy thehiselves by previously used methods - kicking and hitting irjostly. on the head, some unfortunately used their bayonets most jast pricking me in the back, on two occasions they v/ere more than pricks5 once the. jap juinped ^nd ^runted as he lunged forv.urd but fortunately he was too fcjr av/ay c,nd the b ^ o n e t entered: Ly side betv/een the ribs -Jid apparently did no hし‘rra; tlie other when a bayonet point struck ray right elbow making it useless for iiî ny days ； one jap decided he vould h、-ve uiy boots, and caused me much pain whilst he roughly pulled them off ray feet • 58• as time went on activity in the area became less and less, until eventually there was no sign or sound of any Jap about« エ waited long after this before bein^ certain thot no one was p- t r o l l i n g .エ knev7 that to be seen moving would be the end. 59• I/Uah later, after I had forced K^yself from ray bonds, which was a very painful o i i d Ionし and tedious task 一 und got some water,エ was met by ca sergeant and another soldier- f both snielt very strongly of p e t r o l - they had been with tlie group when fired upon and set alight # 60• sgt, croft told me that they were amongst the few who had not been tied, and had been together when the prisoners were fired upon, they had fallen v/ith the first burst of firing - neither of them hit - and lay with the r e m i n d e r . * hen the petrol was brought from the road tLey had both had some throvm on them* Then the ^roup had been set alight. The fellow v/ith Croft had yelled out and vus iim;ediately fired on. sgt. croft then got this fellow and himself free from the heap of Lien, had lain still und qui at close by un.,il the Ja^-s left the area, 。丄* The soldier, whose name エ 60 not knou, died when in the jungle •o. short distance v/est of parit s^lon^, on the following afternoon the 23 j^n. k2. r o2k Sgt # croft left me at first light on the Liornin^ of the 24 Jan l\2% acao卿anied by an Ln^Iish soldier who hacl come to our position in the jungle in the early hours of 23 Jun 42 and vho hac been cut off fron our forces when north of parit sulon^;• 63• pto 0 O^HRobertson of 2/19 Inf Bn is reported to have seen Sfet • Croft about tv;o doys later (dpprox 26 Jan 42)r But as far as is teiown sgt. Croft he s not been seen since thレt dこ.te» E"7iaj3ntiary Docuiaent 'j 5°43 Pし ge 13 64o After speudiri^ 36 days lyin^ in and craT;lin^ about the jungle ar rubber plantation area botv/ecn Parit su.lon^ and B^tu ？ahat 7 エ CL.ptured by policemen and tし!:en to parit sulong police station cn the 27 i?eb 42r. I was still unable to walk s had surferoa a gre.ct d- froij. juy v/ounds : oxpos'ire c starvation and filth；, and liUi cornct vsry wぐ and dirty and lost a treiiiendous amount of weight 9 o_5 ：• '.[fes follow in。duy 28 February 1'ン 42 I was handed o'/er to Jt.p sclaiarvj by the l.ulay police Liiid tal:en by 301：:̂ of tho^e Jlips tc B^tu puiiat i.hers I vas left for soiao time outside a building approx South o the torゾn v/hich wしs a jcipoiiese :ip t convalescent D^i-ot Laid nospital combined c 00 w About sunset of thut dし；7 し jap clxic to CLxryiiib a piece of ro this ho put round rjy necl: i;ith し sliiiknot =； C ^ l l i ^ for tv?o Indians to keev iiie ? T w“;s tudc^n about 150 yards to a gUvcra rocui^ One the way 9 if I al； any tir-is l ^ ^ c d back, tlie '̂ap gave the rope a severe pull which jerked uj necl: consider a t3..y and エ Has many times prevented from breath as the rope pulled too ti^iio on ioy throat<, c7o Upon arrival ut the ^x^ra rcom - îiicli liして.an ^perx front, the 了し- c-.rae out c.nu v?aichcd as I ^us bein^ lashed to し post ̂ ."ith i^y back against it ? rope t̂LIS fir^t. wound urcund ny threat しnd tLe post, then over lijy chest 0 rore roj, e was brought, my hunds tied behind iay back, and the ro^e thsii wound round じxlu round ； until I was securcly and ti^h tied to the post frorri可 neck to î y feet w 08a The personnel of the guard then went past in sin-le file, each either hitting r punching or kick in w ine as they passed on their vru.y bac into tlie guard r^on^ 6^0 So ェ rciminoi until v/cll into the nijit^ several times tlie ^aar coiiiiiLJider c^aao out c nd looked し"t me 4 I-y "beard n e a t l y amused him and : TJOUICL stujid as lie pluclced liしirs out of it one by one, Zach time u relief canic out of the rcoiu I was punisiisd in soiae vuy or other and a^^in v̂iien the relieved ones returned* Generしlly by being smacke or punched on the face and chest or kicked. 70 o Cn the afternoon of the next- dしy, tlie 1 Jiirch 1942 エ was taken b; a jap g u ^ d to a hosj;itul^ Here u j"しp doctor refused to admit 1st； and refused also iccdicし1 attention ? Lind. sしid he would h^ve to send m elsewhere as tLe hospital wes too full> 7 し ェ was tulvcn to the ElTU r^JL-T Police Station und there put into a ccll vliere there were 5 乙lish soldiers who iicid been brought there a fev; dしys before 7 when captured a fしw miles out cf tiiat towiu ryidentiary D^cui^nt p^ge 14, 72 c ens of these men was very ill and suffering ^reaxly from bad wounds in shouldar. and head,, 73o m r i nし the following lj dc,ys the nuiiibcrG uere increased to 22 s soliq of vlion were wounded» The folloT/in^ conditions existcd^ fa ) !leci：! a.l attention wし.s refused each tine requests for soino were Liade > (b) ii.lthoTî h asking inany .biiiies for soap 9 cd.1v on ons occasion was a very small piece -provided, Lverybody was very filthy and clothes dirtyo (c) rood -wury 5.nしdec丄uate - bnount in^ to srriall meals each ciay of abou'i one third of a pint of rice^ (d) One jap cl'ten v/aJl^d into tho section of the ^aol uid calling on a man : punch him cn the face and chest and finall with one terrific blow, lastly always to tiic face 9 knock the fellow back into the eel丄。 re) On two occasions a rnan YTUS tuken into a corridor and loade figiTじ the jap receiving； all the bious ana not being allowe (aiider the pexic.lty of nuich more severe troatnent) to hit bac Tf70 Indian ^iLiy soldiers were sometimes put in front of sa of these men and m d c strike tliem on the face u (g) Gh-tiese xiao were locked in the gaol were often severely il trc«ao£do One was put into a strai 0 ht jacket after being beaten しibout the head and body by a pedr of crutches (both o： .̂7liich were snashed into sniull pieces durinし these beatings;) and starved until he died,, 74o On 17 Iてしrch 1リ42 tho 22 prisoners cori.enced a journey to H了-‘‘LA LUMPUHo Upon arrival at FLLL'J t Q rail!:,し;y after spending the ni^ht of 17/1' Karch at ム Y L H H m J " we were taken across the rails made clean out a filthy dirty cattle truck 0 i-Stor this all vere put inside and the door closed tex SOLJO tims during V/hich the truck W A S shunted back 1̂10. forth several tines } it v/us しttしchod to ^ goods train cind set off noriliTiLrd^ 76> On urriv、1 at GZlhS^ v/e walked to the police barracks^ rveryon. V1/0.S v. GLlil c.nd itself still unable to 1；alk without assistance 3 Evidentiary Document No, 5 4 3 . 2 Page, 3. 77o The following morning 19 l^rch 1%.2 vro were taken early to the railway station una put into an open co“l truck the bottom of which r;as covered tiiickly ivitl coal dust anc refuse 0 78 ̂ it was unbearably hot in the open truck dizrin 0 the d^y, and so; of the men becaiiie very ill iuiid bilious c 79„ From lOIAXa IIJiPUH railway station we v/ere tU:en to PUDO GAOL in th“t town a^rivinし about 0130 hrs 20 Iixrch 1942c： An untidy, iinsliaven s filthy dirty, partly c£Lotiied ? unrecognisable group in tattered garments and mostly barefooted (some suffering a good deal from wounds und illness 5 and all very weal: froii stai-vaticn and 80o soon after n̂ r arrival there ェ weighed itself und found th^t ェ WL..S 8 stone 7 pounds havj.ritj lost 5 stone 3 pounds (or 73 pounds) since ムoinと into action 63 days previously- This is the tenth and last page of the evidence cf 2X 7 H 4 3 Lieut. Ben Charles R^CKITLY, 2/29 Battalion^ エ certify that the above evidence is true Ljid correct• Taken and sv,orn before ne at ) Sydney 01112 rovenber / J / AO Mansfield B . C J U C I C 3 Y Lieut. IjZ 71145 2/29 BlU 凡•ェ•F. Coiixiissioner Evidentiary Docuiuont Nc. • IP r X FATTZR OF J.J^iJ^SS「AR CRILSS A H ) ir TK2 i r ATTER OF KIL’JLA LUI.STO CAM? IOiL^Ta. A F F I D A V I T , 厂エ P 3l600 Laurence, John Willian, SESTONGS, of the 2nd Battalion Caiiibrid^echire negirjent • \vith pernanent hone address at 551 ICn^osv;ortli Street,只oyston, T-jerts, rjake oath and say as follows^- !• I arrived at KUALA LU?'U : IIR can:p cn Fsbruory 1 1 9 4 2 ARID ror.jained there until the caip uas closed, at the end of the second week in October 1942. J The senior officer (Britr.sh) was Colonel EAKTIGAH of the Royal Cherxjal Rifles, Indian I^rnyc He handed over la.er to colonel ?ITSPATRICr of an Indian Ar恥 unit, The cai;ip interpreter xics l^ijor 0。B.:.. JTorth of tlio 3/17tli Dliobra RceiLient • ！2# n J A L . LIE T U I ?て a p p a r e n t ly used by the japane.se as a collccting :、centre for allied prisoners vho v/ere captured in l,?ilaya. in February 1942 i about 250 British prisoners were accomodated there j by ^pril strength increased to abcut 7〇0奢 3# ^cccrxiodation for British other ranks consisted of a coupound about 40 yards sqacre, officers core put into T/hat vas formerly the feolo y ^ a of KUALi LUMPUR prison. Accomodation was very crauped Qiid all ranks had to sleep literally shoulder to shoulder• Tlie f c m l e ward was a buildin^ inside the conpound, and the v;hole canp occupied a portion cf IHJAL. LUMTOR As a result of nany protests the japemeso allowed us, in i-^rch, to use a snail roon in the prison for the cicl: # in April we v;ere ^iven a win^ of the prison and the uso of the prison hospital # in I/T、y ̂ e verc handed over the rhole of tho prison and fron that tir?.e accorxiodation 7?as satisfactory c Food consisted of rice only, togtlier T;ith an issue of sc.lt and drinking rater v;hich v;e ^ot fron the rjuin \iuter supply in the prisoii e This food v/as very inddequate and r c m i n e d so despite the later addition cf a siaall issue cf ^ e c n vegetables at tlie bee inning of September?} By that tiuo officers began to receive pay frou the jap«-jiese which enaled then to purchase food fron outside the prison. British other renke had received working pay during tiiis period but thio i/as insufficient to purchase enough food to the Japanese ari.iy issue up tc an adequate quantity. During the first 3 uont-hs tlie death rate aijon^ the prisoners v/as 10% and about Ibb nien diedj ix>st of these cases vere battle injuries and r.ien suffering fron fever and battle exhaustion. Tho Japanese provided no bandages, no medicines and no nedical attention v7hatever_J The only equip- ment in our hands ras vhat x:e were able to buy secrctly tlirou^h lccal inhabitants_ I do not knou who the Japanese corxxandant was trheu vq entered tho caiiip but until î ay as far as I recall tho cしqp was in charge of a jLipaneso Serjeant* ^ t e r that date Lt. IJSUT通：(spelled phonetically) took over. Evidentiary Docmiexit H o . 5 ^ 5 • Tliis man Has responsible for our rations bein^- about oib quarter under weight• Fe succeectod in securing tho Japanese ration scale for prisoners of war, and ’weighed sucli food as we received uid checked it against this scale• •*,'lien we cciixplained to inZUT^ilTA the scales' were tested in his prcsoiice. They were found to be correct and were promptly inpounded by m u T i 狐 . 7* The Japanese interpreter wus a civilian employed by the Japanese Arr^y by the narae cf (spelled phonetically)j this xoon on the whole vras co-operative and helpful. British officers were not forced to uork but British other ranks i7ere employed daily froニ about 0900 hours till 1600 hours in various jobs including collecting scrap netal, repairing bridges and assisting in the Japanese supply duiips rjid they received pay for this v;ork # 8 # vlien the caijp v;as closed in October 1942 the ocu^p adjutant, Captain AJitliony G^rcln^r of the Loyals took tho coup records to CH-iTGI, I do not knoi: r;hat happened to then. SWOHN by the said Laurence John SEEKB1GS at 6 spring Gardens in the city of Westminister this Tenth day of January 1946 ) ) ( S i c i n e d ) J # W . SEHCINGS. > j ) (Signed) Q.G. liiSON Cuptuin. Leらal staff. Office of the jud^e advocate General, LONDON, S.7.1. I certify that tliis is a true copy of the original affidavit. (Siffxed) RDL KELLY Letal St^ff. Offico of the jud^e Advocate General. Certified tru copjr of original affidavit. , , 1 0 1 , (Signed) H,B. LAMBE, Lt.Color.Gl. 1 9 妙 . A-iS war crimes. Kft iiLFSE/V. Evidentiary DocuLient No # 5034* F IN TIE M ; T T】 OF U.ふ:ESE 1JJI CHIiZS 通 IN THE VATTHl OF THE ILLTRE^TI 'IEra OF ERITISF PPI30IISRS OF TAR aT F孤 U T O， m > A Y山 A F F I D „ Y I Tc Captain peter Rainier iDJd'Bt 1/8 punjab r ^ i u e n t , with p e r m n e n t houe "address at 20, papier Gardens, Kent, inake oath and say as follotrs；- I. I was captured in ponan^ on 19 Docenber,1941, r;as taken to the civil £;.;aol there on the sone day uhere I rcuained untilエ was trans- ferred to the GACL at TA I P B I G about the BE^IMIIN^ of February 1 9 4 2 . 2nd Lieutenants I GOULD and DOKLCCKY of the 2/1 Gurkhas and F , P^TTISOK of the Leicestersliiro pegincnt v;cre also taken to th© caol with ne. iLe four of us and about Co British other ranks \:exe confined in one room which only alloT/ed a space of one yard per T-TO beds or furniture of any kid v/as provided and we had to slaep on the bare stone floor. 2* our feed consist eel of about 12 ounces of rice a day f uith an izifinitosiiiial GDouiit of ve^ot ..blcs :nd without . .ny salt 4 3« Tl'C scaiitary ::.:r;rcnG€;Licnts consisted of one, or ct the Lost two, lavr.toriしs for こ.11 of us # T^esc were in the same room in which we had ‘ to ec.t and sleep c.nd very soon the drains becciae blocked. 'This resulted in there bein^ a continuous vilo stonch in the roon.) U* エで二3 tlie senior officer in the roon upニrt fron the first day mien • E.K.丄J、1DEEVL、,1/8 pimjab K ^ i a o n t ? wus there• He t;as tc.ken av/ay the follorin乙 ac.y じ 11こ was sent to the F i n l a n d • Tliere did not appear to be ニny Japanese officer in the gaolベnd v/c were guarded by tlie jup.:jiese soldiers, Sikh policemen and w a l w •/orders under the corxxind of a Japanese NCO. were frequently visited by a Japanese 2hd Lieutenant uhose naine I do not knoir, but i/hou 1 took to be on intelligence officer as he frequently interro“Gtc;d ue caid had alsc soueti-ir心：to do i;ith tlie locul broadcasting service.マe ucre also occasionally visited by the Japanese corxicndor of the island whose I do not know either• J /5* Sick uen Tierc not こllc'jcd tc leave the roon and had to be attendee j to there. Despite frequent requests by me to Japanese 2nd Lieutenant and I tlie japejiese corxi^mder of the island that the siclc meii should be ailcued J to らo to hospital the Japanese refused to alloc this. Fo attention rjas paid by then to ccriplair.ts regardin^ any other natters such as food, sanitary conditions, etc. 6, One day CSi? EGBERTS of the Leicestershire Ke^inent uas taken out ox the room by the Japanese, guard • He v;as brought back -ithin ail hour in a very faint c o n d i t i o n ,放 sLoi:cd r.̂ his injuries y/hich consisted cf bruises and T;OC1S« HQ told xae liしliしd been beaten by a Japanese in front j of the sikh and I^ilay v/arders, several of rlion hi.d. also beaten hinnfter- I wards 011 Japanese orders. j Evidentiary Docui-ient I'o. -j 2 , , 7» VAaile エ ； i n tLis rooiu I vius frequently asked by the Japanese 2nd Lieutenant to broadcast for the Japanese^ 可lien I refused to do so he did not threaten r̂ e in any way or attenpt to use physical force. (Q。 After ェ hud been in this room about 3 weeks, 2nd Lieutenant GOULD ^nd エ were taken away and put in solitary confineLieirt in tv:c con- de^ined cells CDT)osite each other* Fe v:ere kept there for about 3 v;eeks• Cfur food T7C.S uuch the sane as ue had been issued with before, very often T:l:en the guards brought us our food they refused tc open the door to put it in. This Lieant that we iiaa to tcJ:c it through the bars of the cell and this necessitated, turning the disli sideways so that any liquid in it ran o u t ,〇 u r latrine buckets r e m i n e d in our cclls all aしy and all ni^ht czss. for five niinutes per day :vfcich v:e v;ere ^iven to OLipty them. 9t One day within the first tiTO v/eeks of our being placed in solitar; confineiaent 2nd Licutonant G0 T "LD was t-uken ai/ay by a Japanese ^uard. a fei7 hours later he 〜しs brought back and he tolcl ne that he had been token tc Broadenstiixg House v;here Le Lad boon beaten uレ He described this beat inc up to me as follct/s： Firs 七 of all he て:‘s slapped in the face. He Tias then knocked unconscious with a blou fron し； i r o n bar on the back of the head and brought round by iiaving water poured over liini, i^oxt he was beaten v;ith the iron bar on the bしck and finally he was blindfolded and orange sticks xiqto pushed under one of his n a i l s . 故 said thじt all this had been done on the orders cf the Japanese 2nd Lieutenant who was present throughout. He siioued Lie through the bars of his c‘;11 the reals cn his bacl; t the large lump on the buck of his head and a red ijurk under one of his fingernails^ 10e /ifter being in solitary confinement for about weeks 2nd Lt • GOULD cud I together v/ith the reniainder cf the prisoners in the ^aol were transferred to TAIPIIVC- & 2 n d LiGutcnaiits D O M HIT/ and PムTTISON also spent the last two r/ocks of oar stay at P i m U G in solitary confinement in tho condenmed cclls. (Signed) P . R . jJLJ'E. S'̂ onN" by the above-najMed peter Rainier ) Adaii:s, at 6 Spring Gardens in the city ) of westiuinster, this Fourth day of ) 卿 c h , 1946• ) Eof ore 1:1c, (Signed) A.M 0 BELL-M.CDOKJLD’ Hajor, L ^ - l Staff, j,牲l u Dept.、Cf^ice of the jud^e Advocate General. Certified true copy of original affidavit. 18th April (Signed) L/JSEj Lt. Colonel. i丄G ロar CrirBs, E0 W ム L F S E“ /l^iderrtiary しnt t intornationL.1 Military Tribunal for xlic THE T^ITID STATES OF ムHTRIC.— CTgJiS v “JIJ，I，gcclao “nd others. j(I, ROY H^LFOHD STL7LFS of 46 princess street, Key in the stiite of rvictoria for:..orly VX39〇43, R.H # STEVI^S of 2/12 Field ム b u l a n c c , » oatL end si.y •- J j 1. In i^rclx 1945 七じし Jcpcucsc sent several =orig parties froi•ニ j ri^nci to johore. 1 sent てith thaa us senior radical officer to 丨 establish a liospital for tlie o^xc of these parties•フc v;crc billeted in j ‘. ccndcmod barracks cztredely cvcrcrov;ded • ！ 2. D^ily rations consist eel of 6 to 7 ounces of rice, 4 ounces of j tupioca root uad 2 ounces of mizc f T;hich had all the 0 rain eじten out by ；R;eevils potato tops, in addition しn average of lialf OUL.CC of fish 'per iXcii weekly v;as supplied f y'o rccoivcd a. very si—all or^cunt of .^ericai : l^ed cross supplies :x:ounti:iG in all to one tin of bully beef per i-.au• ,3* i.s to sanitation the J^pcjiese insisted on し’pan systenbing used ；:becc.use they sold the ni£?tt soil to natives c.s n«^nure # This pen systcn .caused a good deal of dysentery a result of infection by flies. ； R e p r e s e n t a t i o n s to the Japanese tc allow us to put in bore holwS v/ere j refused» ； j 4* prisoners cf war trere en^^Gd in defence v?orks for the japuiesc ‘ îdcii：^ tunnels by nininc into the side of hills for use cis ujichinc eun j posts in the event of invasion # NO safety rjLning pre cautions vqtq cxcr- 1 cisccl by the Japanese ritli the result thc.t several irere killed and j injured by the till of earth 0 Fork was extrei.:£dy liord continuing for loi ？licars in a stifling at 1:10sphere as tiiero yjcs no proper air supply. • 5* て:ere inforLiecl by the iiipericil jr.pc:nesc ijr-.y thut as these i ucn v;cru engaged on security worl; f in the event of invasion by our forcc. I v;e rould. be a xiaiscmce as we hud iiifornic tiou wLich be valuable 1 TX vrould be iixxdic.toly disposed of if a landing TTUS made # I 6. jhc average loss of r/ci^ht per ix.n whilst in tliis ccxip T7us abut j five pounds per nonth and these i::en had been stabilized at a very lev; ； l e v e l before 乙ciri£ to johore• j . 1• ^iiilst at this COL:P several acute cbdoLiinal cases necessitating J urgent surgery occurred # Conditions r/erc 1.3cst unfavourable for luc.jor j surgery at this v/hile at Ki^ngi about 6 idles away there was a larし hospital uith adequate surGicし1 facilities•ムlthou色h it was pointed out ividcjiti^y Document N“ / ！ tc the jnperial jc^anoso Arry authorities that the results cf surgery under the conditions prevailing TTCS very doubtful pendssion to evaca^tc cases to Eiangi ；TCS refused. In ono ease of acuto appendicitis the Japanese in ch. .r^c of cai-p b r.mtcd pcruissicn for rencval of the case to iriangi but cn arrival c.t iriangi cdi.J.esion there uas refused by the Japanese in char^c «nd ti:c cしse hed to be returned to johore uid operated on under the extrcrxly unfavourable conditions tlicrc, S. Four d-ys beforし the surrender the attitude of the Japanese chcn^cd completely f rations uere increased cmd r.xdic.1 supplies that had previously bocu vjitlilicld.て.-ere； ix.de avuili.blc, ~J Sivcrii at Kcr: ii：the stv tc ) of victoria this the - ) day of October 194^. ) Before ne f (Sifincd) R f H . STEVENS• ( S i ^ e d ) P . H2TCHF0RD, J.P^ I'videnti^ry DocuL.cnt NO. 5375* The jntcniuticnal I.llitar)/ jpribunし‘1 for the „ THJ； IIT-TITID ST.JZS OF ムHĈ IĈ OTHERS v Z l , SP-^o しnd others i_、[. L J J L と ？, Lj, Bonjcu.in Gcorco U P L E B ^ C K cf ム49 ^caa Street,ムユbury, in tlio State of ]\Ter; south m.kc oこth and sevj 2 - | 1. prior to discLar^e エ uas VX37271 l/Cplo Bcn.jしi..in George MJ?LEB/‘CK | of 2/29 Bi.oi:d was taken prisoner of i;ar 01112 l"arcli 1942 near KUL^I in 1^1,.,yL. • 2 . I was captured uith Lieut 9 CO OTIS? Cplo m T E P S , aid. pte NICHOLLS “11 of 2/29 by L： party of j,|:Llays and cliineso ani vc v:ere taken to a ； r u b b e r plantation about 6 to 8 i.i.lus north-\;ost of ETXL•ふI- iJfter we T7erc j there about tLrcc liours じ p； rty of 7 J<-poiicse arrived in cL>.rしe cf an j NCO ucuxii'i^ a s\;ord し.nd pistc'l。Jl v;ore there レcl:bound by the hcj.ds vdtr | rop しし！id ..ttc.chod to cuch otLcr by/rope • ！ the 3。 The jL.-QLTiOGe i T C0 dre;；- the c.ttetion cf the other jc.pc.ncso to sores on the lc^s of Lieut* CO OTIS and jrh iaced 0 “t this a Japanese soldier j xfHth a torxiy 乙un raisocl it and uppeured tc be しoixifi to shoot Lieut. /COOTZS tod then ho lowered the ムun at a word froニ the NCO. I 4- ^c ycrc tlicn placed in a truck and driven towards KIIL/il, i " T hile on the x;uy the Japanese FCO noticed soroa on the le^s of rte. FICHOLLS uid drcv; the attcr:tion of the others to thcu c He then drev; one ! of our bayonets and started tc beat all of us with it, particularly Lieut 0 j CGOTTS and pte. FICHOIiS v. 7しon he hit cn their sores and also jibbed uith j the point of the bayonet• 5 . After travelling about three i-ilしs the truck stopped しt a bridge end the rcpe connecting us witli Lieut• C00TZ8 and pte. NICHOLLS ^as cut and they ucrc ordered out of tho truck and taken to a croek about 20 yards ニ . r ; L e r c they rcre shot by the japujiese uitli the tor.jy gun. Kc all saw thci.slict • The jupenese then ca..e back to tho truck leaving tl:し bodies of Lieut« C00TSS and pte* n c H O L L S vherc thoy iell c j SV7〇r:u at “lbury, in tlie ) (signed) B t Gr. M-PLCE^CK. State cf N。S„, this the ) 30th day of soptcubcr 194^) Before Lie, (Siしncd) Y.'i J0HJS0K, J 0 P . Evidentiary Docunent ガ 5^39• i Statencnt« is^jL-^Dxy of exai;iination of C H E , S'/^Y L30K ( m l o ) Chinese (Teochew) living at 11,Jalan soldah, B^-tu pahat, 43 years cf age； duly suorn states； On the 27 February 1942 at about 1000 hrs®, I uas called to tho Eatu pahat police station to register. Tai of us, all Chinese, yere then taken to the office of the Chief policc officer, inhere v;e r;ere asked our ncxics, nationality and occupation r This was し 1 1 recorded and t:g had to give cur thuLi print as signature • ••o uere then asked if v/e had done caiy charitable r;ork for China« \:c replied « Y e s T h e Head Japanese Military policc then said "You Chinese have boon donating thirty cents per head per month to China to buy ariLiuiiiticn to kill at least three Japanese. [；o replied »̂ res ム f t c r this v;c v;orc released；at the sane tirie v/e were ordered to bring in five Chinese each who had also helped feLinし,vrithin 24 hours or wo would again be detained« � did not produce these nen so T;O f v/cre arrested and our hands tied behind our backs, ;;e vera then beaten with rifle- butts until v«re v;cre unconscious, v;c were then revived by water, and beaten again. At about 2300 hrs, 28/2/42, v;e v/crc throrn into a lorry and then to tiae police station and locked in a coll, tho ropes tying cur v/rists was cut with a knifcu It vaa not until OjOO hrs, 1st l^ir. 1942, that uo all regained consciousness, this v;as or/ing to the loud boat ing of a gong. \;o asked for v;ater and vltq given sone to drink* At dav;n,1st Kirch 1942, the japr^iese Military police ordered. CH00 Y0NG- GIT.VEE, the senior police detoctivc tc go and arrost sone more Chinese and bring then to the pclicc station. Ho v/cnt out and brought sone back• At the sanic time sone L^lays brought in seme lurcpean civilians. Altogether there vas about 100 persons. The Japanese police then got a lorry and transported us in batches cf about 35 to the jungle 011 the PONTIiiN ROi'J)• Souo of us wore dropped at 121lo and tho r e m i n d e r at the 5"tli mile. T^csc at 2‘ nilo had their hands tied behind their backs with wire • ,;e v/ere then lined up, machine gunned and bc.yonctted„ The Japanese, thinking v;e uoro all dead, left the spot I heard a cry fron behind and it cane fron one of ny friends, who had a s t o m c h uound v/ith his intestines hanging o u t . ェ asked hin to help untie the wire from î y wrists, he did so, cjid passed out soon aftoruards. ェ escaped and talked to SENGGu•遍，r;horo I st:iyod for two nights • I then returned tc tho 3rd nlle (sm,: CII0NG0) to a hut, belonging to r^yself f caught a deg, killed it and renovod its lung and m d c modicinc to cover niy wounds # At MJAE エ went to a doctor, who wanted to amputate ny c r m；エ did not want this9 so ran av;cy and. r;ont to l^JiiCCi. x/herc I went to c. friend, noncd • SOON E2MG. living at a place called BACHANG, m l e s fron i5Lilacca t he gave ne nedicine, food and UDiioy,エ then went on to Kuala Luripur and rcrjr.incd there until 29th September 1 9 4 5 , v/hen ェ returned to B^tu pahat• Evidentiary Docurient fj： 5139. 2. L O f the people shot on 1st l.̂ irch 1942 f 5もフere Cliinoso und about 6o were uhitc civilians •、： The \7hitG civilians vxrc buried at the 3 and nile. They arc still thoro untouched, tho placc is narked on rubber trees, I produce five photos of V;ouncts on i^ysclf. T^O photcs of the ^th luile pontian Road, T^o photos of the nilc pontian Ro^-d. TIITGG cartridge cuscs taken fron the scene of the nurder of jth nilc. One bullet token fron the nurdcr scene at the 2な nilc. one statoinont written in Chinese. One list also in Chinese cf sone of the dead. I have also spcctaolcs, rings and fountcin pens of tho dead in ny possession. (Signed) CHjJ；： S. rLY IHOK. interpreter. I certify thct I duly translated the above suixiary to tho witness in his own language f prior to his signature v/hich aンpears above. (Signed) LIIvI LLJTG CHCJi^. Taken dor;n by ne this 12th day cf M^cia 1946. (Signed) E•ム.CHAI®. LT. R.N.Y^H. Detailed to exaniine the above by the Comandcr-in-Chief, allied i^nd Forces, south East 厶 s i a # Certified True Copy of original affidavit• 18th ipril 1946 (signed) p.S. LuMBE, Lt. Colonel A^G V/ar Crimes H ^ iJJSLi“ Document No c 5141 Page 1* Torture of M^dam 001 KFH HONG in G40L FCRM OF S^ATKI^KT Summary of exarination of (Naire) ； AHMAD BIN CHETEH. (Occupation)；- FX-°0LICE C0NS mABLE DURING BRITISH RULE. (ADDRESS) 252, D E R A K R O A D , 岬 N A N G a duly sworn states. I am' YeaT> s 0 f age of BRITISH-PROTECTED nationality and born at い-PENAJ-IG (MALAY), My permanent home Is 2^2, PLRAK ilOAD, ^ENANG, I am at ^resent confined in PEN\^G G.40L. During the J^uanese occupation I served as a Sub-Harder at °enang 厂aol n ^owirc 1 s the enc? of 1Q43, I siw an W A S H I O , a s s i s t e d b y a n i n t e r p r e t e r , inflict. t.ortr>re on a C h i n e s e woman during the co'urse of her being in + errogated. She was abou + middle-age, and had recently been arrested, Tassio ot)enod this wo;nan T s roussrs anc 1 burnt the hair around her pelvic T)arts w i t h a lighter' ece of D^ioer, T b e n i; 'assio tied a ^ o p e rounc^ h e r w a i s t , and , after b i n d i n g it r o u n d h e r w r i s t s , attached the other end to a irotor.-cycle: then Wassio nroceed to drive the motor-cycle at a quicker pace than it was possible to run. The woman w^s prlled aj.cna; »be ？round about, ten yards and then lost consciousnosso T h e y carried her into + he office, anĉ I s a w n o i r o r e o f h e r ， I n e v e r s a w h e r i n ^ a n y o f t h e c e i l s d u r i n s m y s u b s e q u e n t p e r i o d s o f d v t y r S h e i r r u s t h ^ v e d i e d a s a r e s v l t of the t o r t u r e or b e e n t a V e n a w a y fror the n r i s o n . O n r a n y o c c a s i o n s ^ n 1 ^ 4 3 a n d 1 ^ 4 4 I s a w l * ' - i s s i o i n p l y d i f f e r e n t t y p e s o f t o r t i ? r e o n v a r i o u s C h i n e s e ， M a l a y a n d I n d i a n p r i s o n e r s O n three occasions in l-?.te 1Q43 =nd early 1944 I saw Wassio annly water torrtipe to Chinese nriso^ers, and on all these three occasions the Chinese diec 1 as a re si: It of + he water torture。可assio d e f i n i t e l y xhe r̂ an r e s n o n s i b l e for the killing of + hese three Chinese, who ^ied in the T)rison yard straight after the water tortrre,. I know that they were dead, because the bodies became blue inc' sti f \f, I cannot say what w e r e t h e n n m e s o f t h e s e t h r e e C h i n e s e w h o d i e d . Sworn before rro (sig Special Investigator nature) (Sgdr) Ahmad (description) F . W , W A R D , C a i D t , ( r a n k ) This 21st day o^ Feb, 46 Detailed, to examine ナhe above by the Cor^n-ander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, (Authority:- ALFSEA War Crimes Instruction N o - 1 , p a r a 7) F.jcarinec 1 by me with the original A.ffic^vit and I certify this +o be っ true copy c April 46 (Sgd,) R C B , Larube Lt c Colonel AAG War Crirres HQ ALFSEA 么 乃 FOHJ OF STATH^TT YONG LI^J MOI (Lliss) 3wr-y\ry of examination of s - Occupation：- Dres s-making• Address 8- I83 .PENANG ROAD, PENANG. duly sworn states,エ am 19 years of age, of STRAITS-BORN GIUNESE nationality and born at Pennng。 Ivly permanent home is I83 ^enang Road, ？ e n a n g . ェ am at present living at -do- -do- I was arrested, on the 29th October 1943 by a party of Japanese IvI.P- 1 s and officials, amongst whom was マAGSIO and ail interpreter called K7/EH TIONG HIN。 M y grandniDther, by name Ifedain 001 KEH HONG, had previously been arrested on 21st October 1943。 On being arrested 9 エ was placed in the same cell as my grandmother, who hnd been in good health at the time of her arrest, although now she was ill and she told me that she had been beaten daily between the time of her arrest and my ovm arrest• On the evening of my arrest :7assio beat me with a stick, and burnt my arms and back with cigarette ends。 Two weeks after my arrest エ saw my grand -mother tortured by *assio and Kewh Tiong Hiru ^Tassio tied my grand-mot her* s hands behind her back 9 and suspended her from the ceiling for about an hour, at the end of which she wns unconscious, thile my grand -mother was thus suspended , '/assio^ three heavy iron weights at her legs and feet。 ザ》、トク On one occasion^ at which I was not present but was informed by my grand-mother, the latter said that she had been, tied behind a 120tor-cycle» and dragged along the ground until she was unconscious。 Gradually^ through periodic beating by i|/assio and due to the inadequate feeding, my grand-mother became very weak 9 heで arms being so crippled by the beating that she was unable to lift them- Eventually internal troubles commenced as the result of her t o r t u r e a n d her left hand became para- lysed 9 and my grand-mother died on 19th August 1945v in the same cell as ェ was occupying in P M A N G Gaol。 Document 2. ( S i g n e d ) YONG L S N MCI (in C h i n e s e s c r i p t ) Interpreter， I certify that エ duly translated the above sutrmary to the v/itnesa in her own language, prior to his signature which appears above. (Signed) S. D'OIWILLE, Interpreter. 3worn before rae this 25th day of February 19なし (Signed) H WARD (Hank) Cant, (Description) Special Investirator. Detailed to examine the above by the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land forces, South East Asia. (Authority:- ALFSiA V/ar Grimes Instr. N o . 1 , p a r a Examined by me v/ith the original affidavit and certified to be a true copy. 18 April 1946, (Signed) P•“ LAT挪 Lt。 Colonel M G .7ar Crimes HC ALASKA rvidcnticTy docunent -j 5^43 • ^33 ff I, r ';illiau John D^vios, an officer cf His j/pjesty's Forccs at H0 t aLFSL, having been duly s u o m state： On the 3.8th February at X P O H ,こ yじ * I しc.ted as prosecuting officer じt th) trial of sgt, "TOSMIMOR^ licio, cf tho Kernel•！rsi, who was charged with i 丄：Lt relating civilian residents of IpOH, pert of the abstract of evidence in this case were relevant portions of vjritten statenonc by I位.s。 ； D u r i n g the tric.1 the accused changed his plea fron N^t Quil.ty to Gu.Llty and the abstract of evidence was sutrntted -oo the court under Ji^p, 37 3。 The Court asked for the original «ta-cenier.t cf j:r3 c “ ： C , ICathigasu tc bo handed .in.ェ handed in the original statcuer/c including the Irrelevant portions,, A true copy of the said stciuenent is annexed hereto and narked exhibit and sigi.ed by ne 0 / S^orn before roe (Signed) DA7ISS this 18th day cf ^ r i l (Signed) CliiJUJES PILL, Ccpt. R • 一 iji officer detailed to exai.iine the above by CoLXiondcr-in- Chief, allied Landl Forces, South E^st ^sia. Evidentiary Document No. 5^43 EXHIEIT 吆"• T^iter, NDedles pricked in between my finger-nuils. iron rods werehoated in the fire, and then applied on nsy legs and back» Slaps and clenched blows ucrc rained constantly on rqy face # I was mcide to stand in the middle of the room with japs in the formation of four at each corner of tho room kopt banging arm-chairs on ny head until I collapsed on the floor• Canes from one inch to three and a half inchcs were used to thrash eiq, xaany were broken or split in several pieces. pinching njy arras and legs uas another favourite pastime of the of the japs till they were quite sore, swollen and very painful. Canes with blunt ends uore thrust into the sockets of both ny knee-caps and the japs began twisting the cane. A long cane was placcd betvem the fingers of both iny hands, with one jap holding tho tips of my fingers and another supporting my elbows> while two other japs hung on either ends of the cane playing a see-saw stunt thereby tearing the flosh in between my fingers. I havo boon ju-jitsued a few times• Kicking me with their heavy boots was their daily greeting which lasted throughout each statements I was hung up by one leg, head downwards for several hours at a time. I stayed in the central police station for 3i oonthe and was fed ( I , iirs.厶•(：• EiiTHIG.iSU nee SYBIL DJXY of 141 Brewster Road, Ipch, make the following statement：- I uas arrested on the 1st “ugust papan at 9^3° a n d taken to Jpoh Central police station that same night ン A voek later . I vas charged for treat ing j providing foodstuffs, and supplying icedicincs, clothing and money for the members of the ATiti-Japanese campaign (but tho Japanese have always called us conrrunists). I daresay that my arrest had a lot to do with professional jealousies and this added more fuel to the fire when the C.I.D. who were spying on me fcr the past six ninths, obtained proofs from several of our Eienibers who uere arrested previously and had turned traitors, by pointing me as the one who treated theirie A letter from Headquarters fell into their hands xoade matters worse• I vas branded as a spy owing to several questions in that letter v/hich I had to report to Headquarters regarding Jap Military lavements in tox7n # in all the tortures that I went through not oncc did I betray any of n̂ y members or Europeans hiding up the hills - so I invented Q story saying that I was forced to treat them under the throat of being shot f and that all questions asked in tho letter was ansv/ercd with the words don't • k n o w j stuck to this to the last, ！ Here arc the list of my tortures：- \ » > ^ / V J . \ } / \ ) / v u / \ T / N i / \ l / \Jy )/ 12 3 4 3 6 7 8 9 o 1 2 3 c ( f v ( c / V ( / \ - { 11 1 1 • lyidentiory Docunent yro. • 2 on k tしMis of tapioca in the evening and a coconut-she 11 of sago congee mixed v/ith a few grains of rice in the laorning. ム11 these tortures ucre acLaiinistored by the Japs alono and as thoy v/ere constantly changed ェ cannot remember them nor do I kneu their names, I was always carried back to my ccll in a very dazed and collapsed condition,/ As regards M.P. YOSHIMURA I was taken by him to M.F, Headquarters at Gopong Road months after from the central police station charged with listening to radio no^vs at papan. i^fter admitting the radio churgc エ v;as asked to ansv;er questions again regarding the help and services rendered to the ^ t i - j a p campaign, since M.p. YOSHIMDR^ could get nothing xodtg further in the m t t c r he used the most painful torture cn ine - as I had to choose between duty and honour cmd the life of nay child • / I jjy child v/as hung fron a tree about 10 to 12 foot in height» ^yith a fire blazing under her ? uhilc； I yas tied to a post, and lashed with a big stick uhich broke in tuc.j YOSHIMIIU v/as shouting at L:e to speak out and speaking out death for thousands of people up in the hills • W child ansyorcd for 230 »bc very brave, Don't t e l l . w i l l both die, and josus will v;ait for us in Hcavon above On hearing these words t I asked YOSHIHJE^ that he can cut those ropes and burn Ejy baby, I told him that iay answer is no, and I v/ould never tell. Allエ can reiaeniber is as thoy v/cre cutting tlie rope, God ansuered my prayer, gone jap officers took pity and ordered 鄉 child to be taken dov-71• She was sent hciae and I was sent back to my c c l l , 1 stayed ever a rjonth at the M.P. Headquarters where エ tos sent to B^-tu Gajah jail. し M7 diet consisted of s m l l cups cf corqpressed rice T7ith few grains of salt, and 2 tnobler tubes of water in 24 hours• No bath and change of clothings. The cclls v/ere full of verinins, fleas and bugs* : The night soil bucket r/hich consisted of a kerosene tin v;as emptied rheai it pleased then to do so. ITy legs v:ere gradually becoiaing v/euker from the police station and after nsy arrival at B^tu Gajah j a i l , I lost the use of my legs up till today. I vms tried cjid recomicndod to be sentenced to death, which uas ccmuted later to penal servitude for life* The food was thoroughly rotten right through, and six nonths ago I was put into a dark ccll by tho jap superintendent, NAILMJR^, t;hc put dc on M f P . diet and one suit of clothos, uhich I \;cro till r̂ r release. No bath nor any sort of covering v/as given and I vas made to fell the bitter cold at night• This uas because 1 refused to stitch puttees and socks for Nippon soldiers fighting at the g u r m front• I have read this statenent and it is true, (Sgd.) SYBIL ILiTHIGASa. (';itncsscd) SPEIDl/INDE. This is exhibit ノ referred to in the svorn otatciieiit ixido by rx this 18th day of ムpril 194^ being a true copy of tho original stat^ient of Eathigasu, (Sgd.)：：丄 D ^ V E S Before rje, H.A # (Sgd.) CFJJ?LES PILE, Ccipt.
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