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Doc- Ko. 5441 尸 3 ぐ —/ Page HJEKa 一 SIAM A. CIVILIANS III H / R M a) Prosecution Document numbered 5276, the affidavit of T. B. AUCHTLHLOLIE, is now produced for identification p.nd the marked ercerpts offered in evidence- The document refers to the torture of Burmese st Victoria Point Camp. The man was confined, for two v;eeks in v/hat was known pb the Dog Cage, a wooden structure 3 ft, "by 5 ft. and then "beaten, suspended "by the hands frein a rafter and teat en in front of some of the officers of the Camp. The man's ankles vere then tied up "behind his "body with a. rope around, his neck and a fire lit "beneath his feet. Later he was cut down and. driven a.v̂ ay vdth an armed guard and some digging tools. The truck returned without the iurine se. "b) Prosecution document numoered 5260, the sworn statement of II A.E.iL.CULLM is now tendered for identification a.nd the excerpts irip.rked there- in, offered in evidence. This statement i elates to the muxaer of a i urine se in Sept ember» 1943 • Japanese guards beat the man with e. six foot "bpnfboo pole and forced a passing Burmese civilian to thrash his countryman with this instrument When the victim >/as raw and "bleeding the guards decided to shoot him. This vrps done and two P.O.V/, "belonging to the vritness 1 detachment, were ordered to "bury the "body. c) Prosecution document num'bered 5120, the solemn declaration of Mg. S M MGrWE is produced for identification and. the inarked excerpts offered in evidence. This document states that in Jujae 1945, Keispeitai personnel arrested tlie witnessin ur-C.Ie o.rd removed money and household goods from their home. The witness was told "by a fellow prisoner that his uncle ws.s tortured; his uncle has never returned home sinca the arrest. d.) Prosecution •dgcoment numbered 5138, "being the aixio.pvit of Lt» Col. S.L.St. J.CiiUSIi, exhibiting three statements of OHE MYaIKO, M SlB T H E M and AE YI respectively, is produced fer identification pud. the R.%rkea excerpts now tendered in evicence. This statement relates to the massacre by Japanese •f women and children civilian inhabitants »f the village of JEBLAL&. iiiey were pushed into a number of houses and fired on "by machine guns, end the houses set on fire. Tvo girls although wounded, escaped^ One of them 0H1J hljij-î G- states: Doc. 5441 Page 2. ffT ie vere pushed inside and after a"bout two hours we vrere fired on machine guns The firing continued tintil all the crying and moaning ha.d ceased^ I vas i-'ouncled in my right hip, under my left arm a.nd on my right hand. If anyone cried out the firing started up again. Ivhen everything had "been q u i ^ for some time, smoke "begpn filling the room end one side of the house v;a.s on fire. I tore up some floor "boards and escaped。’ ： Prosecution document n-omlDered 5337, "being the statement of Cppt• T-C.x；. iliilJjililE is nov/ offered for identification and. the narked, excerpts produced in evidence- This document in paragraph エエ thereof relates the information ootained in an official investigation of the events knovm as the dAIITG tessa.cre, confirming the evidence of the document last produced, So. 5138. e) Prosecution Document numbered 5137, "being the affidavit of Lt. Col. E.L.St. J. Couch exhibiting charge sheet end Abstract of Evidence in relation to the KALA&Oxj Massacre， is now produced for identification and the marked excerpts offered in evidence. Prosecutir-n document nuin"bereci 5336, "being the report of Lt. Col. A-M。Sturrock, President No. 4 War Crimes Court, Hangoon, in reference, inter alia, to the KaLaG-OH IViassacre, is now offered for identification and. the marked excerpts produced in eTidence. These documents describe the proceedings "before the Court end summarize the evidence given > x̂ .e villagers of KaLA&uim v/ere interrogated "by the Eempeitai, "bea,tan and. tortured。 The massacre vps carried out "by taking the villagers in groups of about twenty-five to the nearly v/ells where they were "bs-yonett^d. and thrown down the wells. 'Witness for the Defence: Col- TSQKTuUA stated that there v/a.s no trial end. that since they were satisfied that the villagers had "been acting in a manner hostile to the Occupying Power, the Japanese were justified in the circumstances, in carrying out a. mass execution. 1'he first Accused, the Commanding Officer of the Unit carrying out the massacre, stated that he thought the women and children were acting ageinst the Japanese Army, \vhen asked how he justified the killing of infant children, he said there vas no other alternative. Ee further said: Doc. Ho. 5441 Page ,f V/ithiii the Orders I received, the killing of the children vas also included- If I spc i ed the children, they would "be orphans and as stich they could not hrve a living. In order to s^ve time a.ncl carry out my duties, I could not help killing them." ！The evidence of the Keadmsx. of the village vho escaped vas that of the 195 vomen,175 nen and 260 children collected "by the Japanese, only a very few escaped death. Prosecution document mimbered 5337 alreedy in evidence, in peragrpph エニニ thereof iaakes reference to this massacre. f) Prcsecution document im^terad 5336, of Lt. Col. A.h. STuHROCK, already in evidence, also contains sumniaries of the proceedings of five other trials .of Japanese for alleged va.r crimes. In four of these cases convictions v ere registered* g) Prosecution Document nuntered 5344, the signed statement of MUSG- LU GTI, is now offered for identification ana the marked excerptb tendered in evidence. Ik is docunent describes the "beating of a v/onian with a rifle "by Japanese, at ICYa^itaSA Village. She vas stripped naked as vas her nephew s,nd bcth were tied to a railvfp.y carriage in the suiu IJext day the witness saw "bloodstains "by the river "bank and on enquiry, v/as told, "by an Indian, also arrested with the v r oi:an t that she end the "boy had "been ciecapiteted.Ihe "bodies were throv/n into the river "by the Indian. h) Prosecution document numbered 5346, the signed statement of MUUG- TTJis SHI'vE, is now produced for identific?ticn end the excerpts narked therein, offered in evicence. This dccujiieiit states that the witness, a Police Constebl: accompanied a Kempeitai Officer to a villp.ge v/here rtl old men and another native were arrested on suspic:- on of "being concerned in the death, of a Japanese soldier. These men v/ere tortured vdth vater and then their feet were "burned. Several houses were "burned down. They were then taken to In"bin where they were c.ecepitpted. Their bodies viien they had fallen into the trench rere "ba.yonetted "by Japanese soldiers. At Myanaung two other men were decapitated- i) Prosecution document num'oered 5347, the signed statement of kAljMG K丄丄‘ is now produced fcr identification and the marked excerpts effered. in evidence. This clocument states that the vitness acted ps an Interpreter for a Japanese officer in May,1945, et Ongun, v;hen seven iurmans were "being questioned, ihey vere taken to Ongun cemetery pud there "beheaded. The witness states: Doc. No. 5441 "Although I had my hands over zy ears, I could hear the "blows of the s^ord and the J_aps saying, 1 Oh, tha.t one isn't dead yet, bpyonet him 1 . I heard cries of 1 Oh God 1 coming from the trench.“ On the next day, two white men, apparently Airmen, v/ho had v/itnessec. the execution of the iUroens, were themselves murdered in the sane v^ay. The witness states： "I have heard from coolies working for the Japanese, of other executions. Sometimes there v r ere executions of "batches of six people, sometiiaes of "bptches of uio to 30 people - 11 j) Prosecution document nuDDered 5342, the signed statement of PAK is produced for identification and the marked excerpts thereof offered in evidence* This document relates the torture of iurnese nationals "by the Eenpeitai at Shanyv^a., the witness having teen forcibly removed there, after torture! in order to identify suspected men. The vritness se.w his father, "brother and other men shot "by the Japenese. The teadmeii丨 s house was set 6n fire. k) Prosecution document numbered 5340, the signed statement of SAW 10 &YI &YAt' is offered for identification, and the marked excerpts therein tendered in evidence. liiis document st?t©s that seven persons were executed in Tharav/s.ddy "by the Kempeitai. The erecution vas observed "by the witness from a winclovr overlooking the coiapound vithin which the people were shot. l)Prosecution document nwbered 5339, the 日worn statement of E.A. SICOL is novr tendered for identificatiou and the excerpts marked, are offered in evidence- This statement describes hov tjie witness was taken to koksokwin forest in early 1945 ps an interpreter. He sew four Allied Airmen gnaxded "by a party of Japanese soldiers. After interrogation, the men were taken into the forest pud half en hour later» the Japanese returned without the men, Tout carrying their clothes, four paits of shoes, a pick—axe end a shovel. m) Prosecution document numbered 5348A, "being the svorn statement of lEri^ Mg, is x;ovr produced for identification and the jiiarked excerpts therein offered in evidence. The docujnent states that in August,1944, at Sinikan the witness sew a Burmese tied to a tree, ordered to say his prayers and murdered "by ©. Japanese, vho hacked him all over the "body vdtli a sword• Doc. No. 5 H 1 Page 5 This was the punishment for refusing to disclose any knowledge of British troops • n) Prosecution document numbered 5348B, being the sworn statement of Mg^ THi'iIv M/丄1NG, is now offered for identification and the marked excerpts are produced in evidence, x rose cut ion document numbered 535k t "being the unsworn statement of Sgt. Maj, YOSHIEuiWa, Sadaichiro, is now offered for identificatioii ai.d the marked excerpts therein produced in evidence. These documents relate to the murder of six Kachitis near BUT:RAI f in June 19441 because they were suspected of helping Allied troops in the neighbourhood. The six men were bayonet ted to de^.th ly the Japanese after being interro- gated. The latter document of Sgt.MajiYCSHIKAV/A is an admission of this incident. 0) Irosecution document numbered 5359, the sworn statement of ROLAND jDSJkH, is now tendered for identification ard the marked excerpts thereof offered in evidence. This document states that the witness saw Kempeitai personnel set fire to the foot of an Indian, the foot having had kerosene oil poured over it. The TTitness furthsr states that he satr a woman tied to a post and beaten, her longyi removed and beaten again. She was dragged along the road by a rope from her neck until unconscious. A Japanese poured a pitcher full of boiling water into an Indian's mouth. The man was pushed into a water-filled trench and submerged several times until unconscious. He 面s then removed and put into wooden fetters. p) rrosecution document numbered 535^» ths solemn declaration of HAi'iHY JOSUri, is produced for identification, ard the excerpt marked therein offered in eviience* This document states that in April,19丄!the Kenpeitai detachment at Kyaikto stayed in the witness f s house until June. Curing this time, the witness observed the folloring tortures carried out on their prisoners n (l) Beat the prisoners ^ith big solid bamboo sticks (approx. length 4ゾ5丨-diameter 3 W ) Beat the prisoners until they confessed forced confession). (2) Eurin^ beating and interrogation, prisoners ^.re made to squat with hands and feet tied with ropes a (3) The hands of the prisoners r^re tied with ropes® rrisoners^re then strung up to the roof of the house by their hands so that Doc. No. 5441 Page 6 their feet did not touch the ground. Prisoners were left like this for some time^ (4) During interrogation, the prisoner ̂ s hands and legs were splashed ^rith large quantity of boiling waters (5) The prisoner でas blindfolded, then a large quantity of \iater slowly poured into his mouth and nostrils, so that the prisoner suffocatedo q.) Prosecution document numbered 53乙1» the sworn statement of SIMA BAHADUR, is now tendered for identification and the excerpts marked therein, offered in evidence., The document states that in January,19451 the witness and nearly 1,000 Indians were arrested^ They were detained in a church for a day without food and drink and then taken to Hsipaw where six hundred and twenty-one men were packed inbo a room about 25 fast square* There was no room to lie doirm and the men i^re forced to sit with their knees tucked under them, shoulder to shoulder• "I was detained in this room for thirty eight days, never being allowed to go out. Our food consisted of a small ball of rice and a pinch of salt daily, with a ver：/ small quantity of irater. ••マe were not allowed to leave the room to perform our natural functions, this being done in the room through a small hole thct had been made in the floor. After a few day3, the conditions in this room became practically unbearable, the filth and stench becoming undescribable. During my stay in this n tiiiLL HOムJln, approximately two hundred men died from various diseases； and it v̂ ns a common practice to leave the dead in the room for a fevr hours, after vhicli they would be taken out by the Japanese and thro^jn into a trench or bomb-crater, T?liere they were left exposed to the air", The witness and five other Gurkhas were then taken to Ibngkai and into the jungle» "and we were forced to kneel down, after our h^ids had been tied be- hind cur backs• One of the Japanese, which one I do not know, pulled my coat clear of my neck, and I aaw that the other five vsere being dealt with in tho same maimer. At this time, standing near us xjbs one Doc. No. 5441 p a s e 7 officer and three soldiers, whilst at a distance, I could see about twenty five others c The officer took out his sword, and エ saw him hand it to a\e of the soldiers t and point to me<> The Japanese soldiers appro ached me from behind, and suddenly I felt a sharp pain in rcy neck, also I felt the blood running over 33y face« After that I lost consciousness > and I can not say what happened。 The following morning, just as the sun was rising I came to my senses, and found that 1 was soaked in blood0 I looked around, and found that my five comrades v/ere all dead vdth their heads partly- severed fron their bodies e " A Doctor ! s certificate attached to the document confirms the nature of the w u n d and describes the man's consequent disability, 云、Prosecution document numbered 5 3 ^ ? the swcrn statement of BSL BAHADUR HAl f is noir produced for identification and the marked excerpts therein offered in e v i d e n c e T h i s dociunent ci-aces tha*t； in Tune 1944> the witness who was acting as an Interpreter for the Xempeitai in Hopin, saw a Corporal and two soldiers of the British Army who had been captured. The Corporal was bounded in his throat so that he was unable to eat or drink. He tos given no medical aid and died in tuo days® The remaining soldiers ani another who had just been captured were "cied together and taken to a nearby bomb crater Yiheve they were shot by a Japanese Sgt. Major。 s) Prosecution document numbered 53^5y the sworn statement of H.B» -ILSON, is now offered for identification and the excerpts marked, tendered in evidence. This document relates the maltreatment of prisoners of war and internees at Rangoon Central Gaol. Men were beaten savagely and others were frequent deaths from malnutrition and lack of medical facilities. At Tavoy Internment Camp men and women Trere beaten, tortured, put in solitary confinement and starved, and the internees were forced to eat dogs, rats and snakes to keep alive. t) Prosecution document numbered 5367, the snorn statement of TAN HAIN being produced for identification and the marked excerpts offered in evidence, describes the execution of five Chinese near i'RO!E» The witness vent to the place of execution as an Interpreter and saw Doc。No. 3441 Page 8 a number of Japanese officers there present. There vjas a table covered with a white cloth, on which 〜7ere flowers, one or two tootles of sake and some glasses. The five prisoners vere made to sit with their legs in the graves which were already dugo They were then shot by Japanese soldiers. u) Prosecution Document numbered 53^8s the sworn statement of J»H‘ソILLI/JVS, produced fcr identification, and the excerpts marked therein are now offered in evidence« This document describes the beating of Prisoners of て!ar at Ilojaryo and the inhumanity of a Japanese who kicked a man to death who, suffering from a 3tomach conplaint, tos un- ablfe to control his lotion. v) Prosecution Document numbered 53^9t the sworn statement of Ifrs. II.M,..ILLI/^3 f is now offered for identification and the marked excerpts produced in evidence. The document confirms the conditions in MAY1.3T0 as set out in the preceding statement numbered 53^8• in Tavoy wcrn^i were ordered to stand in the sun far seven, eight and ten hours. In April, 19451 a lady internee returned to the house in which she lived at 0330 hours with her clothes in slireds and said that a Japanese had attempted to rape her. Another woman informed the "Witness that on several occasions the same Japanese had raped her» The original affidavit cannot be iiiicide available immediately is require d for trials of minor war criminals• / » ividentiary Document •( 3276. ：[• VX 39006 jor jolin Kevin LLOYD of 1.XW Headquarters make oath cud say. 1« i am an officer of the Australian Military Forces. 2. annexed hereto and raarked is a true copy of an affidavit sworn by Thomas Bruce AUCHTERLONIE on 18 “ p r i l [ w h i c h I have in Liy custody in the course of ny duties• Sv:om before Lie ct I.ELB0URT2 ) this 27th day of 卿 1 9 4 6 ) (Signed) J. LLOYD f Ivpjor« (Si£^ed) R.D. CRANPTON, C^pt. An officer of the Australian I•炷litary Forces. i • s 3 a Evidentiary Document # タマら• 2 9 ‘ —qjl this eighteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, Tboft^s Bruce iJJCHTEHLONIE’ of 7 Frances st # , Epping, in the state of New South T/c.les, maizes octh and says as fallows j- As NX 只$((L, Cpl. T.B, AUCHTERLONIEt of 2/3 MiC ェ was taken prisoner at Singapore on 15 42. As one of a party of three thousand (A Force) I was transferred from Changi on 15 W y to VICTORIA POBIT]where l f 000 Australians landed # as one of 700 I was sent to the aerodrome Victoria point• 2s The officer in charge of the Australians was 旭jor GREENOf 2/4 I.3-G b i . T h e Commander of the Aerodrome pw Ccop was Lieut # EJUCHI (OGUCHI) nicknaxaed ”sr.ii ler w • 3. The cormiander of the Vict or ir. point area was Capt 0 YAS13DA# I,ieut f SHIRASエ was conaander of the 3〇〇 pws at Victoria point (proper). A description of Co.pt 0 yasuda is as follcv/s - Height about ft s 5 ins" a^e 43 years (approximately) t contact build ? exceptionally dark coiiiplexion for a jap and wore a moustache. A description of Lieut LJGUCKI is as follows 一 height 3 で七會 9 ins, (cipprox,), slini build, exceptionally god-looking for a jap. He was siiiiling and was kncnm as «sniiler •• He was an ex-bank clerk in A description of Lieut• SEIIHASI is as follows - height 5 れ樣 9 ins (approx.) f well built 9 rather protruding teeth. I r/as enployed with seven other Australians at jap HQ, as driver to Lieut EJGUCHI. Some tinio in July I sai;a Burnese ixiprisoned in a ”Dog Gage K at the radio station f Victoria pt # A "Dô ; Cage» v/as a board structure no m r e than 3 ft, by 5 バ " u s e d as a solitary confinement cell by the japs. an e x - B u m s e policeroan and gaining infornation about on a number of occasions during the next fortnight. }je was progressively nore haggard during that period and the japs told rue that he had been repeatedly beaten, 9. At the end of the fortnight エ drove Lieut. EJGUCHI to the radio station. While sitting in the car エ saw a nuiiber of wicker lounge chairs being placed in position^ i These v/ere occupied by capt. YaSCJDAi Lieut f EJGUCHI, SGt.l魁jor Ti^KaHASI, another Sgt. I^jor OJ.I and a Sgt. whon I could personally identify but whose naraes エ do not know. Also present was the Japanese interpreter• He v:as 5 7 ins # hi^tia^e about 27 years; slight build, lantern jawed and sunken eyed. He V7as a cruel looking per son • age 29 always Tokyo. 5 . age 35 1• A jap told rje that the prisoner was that he had been arrested for the purpcse of the British occupation. I sav; the Burmese in the "D。S Cage w jyidontlory poounent ff 5276 10. The prisoner was then brought out of the cage and his hands tied behind his back. The interpreter proceeded to interrogte hini in Iplay. i understood little J/tilay どjid could not gather the context of the conversation. 11 # i^fter each refusal t anser the pisonor v/as beaten by one or more of those present• sticks of approxiimte diameter li ins. and length 1 inetrc uere used in the punisluuent• This continued for approximately hajLf an hour, after which relays of four Japanese soldiers uere called down fron nq to do the beating. The Eurnese would evidently give 110 infornatioj 12 # He yas thon placed on a 44 gallon drum, all clothing removed; the rope tied to his hands v/as passed over a rafter under the な store verandah and tied at such a length that 町hen the drun was kicked from . u n d e r hin no part of his body could touch the ground. After the drtun had been kicked av/ay the Buruese was spun around on the rope and beaten uith sticks by four Japanese soldiers• This was stopped at intervals for interrogation but the Burmese still refused to answer. 13• After about fifteen minutes, his andkles were tied up behind his body uith a rope around the neck, and a fire lit underneath hin# He \ stood this for ten riinutos and appeared to lose consciousBsc» 14• The Japanese then cut hin down, placed hira in a truck with two arned guards and two soldiers with digging tools. The truck was driven ：‘ and returned sone twenty ninutes later without the Eurnese レi Tlio Japanese interpreter 口as one of the ciost vicious of the tornentors. This interpreter vias nicknaiiied "Hurry Hurry 15• There were no other Australian eye witnesses to the torture. I was ordered to turn the car around prior to the comencexnent of the tor- ture but I observed fron about 15 feet through the rear vision mirror, l6 • Lieut • IJGUCHI belonged to the KE/IPEI TAI, 17# Lieut• SHIEiiSIt during the tir/ie v;e r;ere at Victoria pt. Carp, appeared to be roore humne than his f elloivs # SWOH、了 by the abovenaoDd d e p o n e n t , ) Thorns Bruce AUCIiTEHLOITIEt at SYDNEY) this eighteenth day of April, One ) (Signed) AUCHTEHLONIE• thousand nine hundred and forty-six ) Before ne, (Signed) L. SHIITIELD J.P. ^ A Justice of the peace, IDchibit " u、 This is the docunent marked jpchibit w referred to in the of VX39006 L?ij # J.K 0 LloydJsmotxi before 120 this 27th day of Ipy 1946 as beinc produced and shown to hin at the tirB of his swearing his said affidavit• (Signed) CRAHPTQN, Capt. An officer of the Australian Military Forces. DOCirSI.JT NO. 5260 Page 1, I，VX 39006, ?Ja jor John Kevin Lloyd, of :\rmy Headquarters make oath and say; 2. 3, I am an officer of the Australian Military Force?, Annexed hereto anc? marked "K" is a true copy of an affidavit sworn ty NX68582 WO2 Ashley Harry Plops CULLEN on 18th Jan. 1946 which I have in my custody in the course of my duties. The original affidavit cannot be made available imrriediately as it is required for trials of minor war criminals. Sworn before me at B"ELBOrBiJE ‘ i , this 27 clay of May, 1946. ) / s / J。 Lloyd Ma j r r /s/ D , Peanh NX76207 Capt A.11 officer or the Australian Military Forces. DOCUMENT Wo。 5260 Page 2. A.USTFALI,\N WAR CRILES CO^CISSION Evidence taken before Mr. Justice eighteenth day of January 1946. Pliilp at Sydney this NX.68582 V-.0„11 Ashley Harry Hope CULLEN, being duly sworn gives the following evidence ；- My full name and unit is NX68582 Y/011 Ashley Harry Hope CULLEN, of 2.3 Reserve M.T. Company, 8 Division. My home address is % 68 Queen Street, /Ishfield, N.S.W. I was captured in Java and was confined in Bicycle Carnp from 1。4,42 to 8,10。42 and working camps on the Burma side of the Burma-Thai Railway from November 1942, to December 1943。 Froci January to March 194-4 I was at Tamarkan and at Saigon from A.pril to June 1944. From September 194-4 to the capitulation I was back in Changi Camp. During the period ；Vagust to October 194-3 I was in charge of a detached party of 20 PO'V (10 Australian,10 Dutch) engaged in relaying cattle from Retpu (30 Kilo Camp, Burma-Thai Railway) to 4-5 Silo Camp and we were housed with 4 Korean guards, all of whom were privates. P n or about 26 Septerrber 194-3, the Senior Guard named Pte fYSSTER informed me that I was to ensure that all purchases of cheroots by POW were to be m d e through him at a cost of 1 rupee 20 cents per bundle. As these cheroots were obtainable from the nearby POW Camp canteen for 50 eents ^ per bundle, I refused to comply with his demand stating ray reasons。 After making threats of punishment if I per- sisted in non-compliance with his order, he sent me back to bed and two hours later (0100 hrs) he took me some distance from ou.r quarters ancl without warning knocked me to the ground and jurr.ped on me, after which he proceeded to kick me about the ribs and head and finally to throttle me. Two other guards arrived in time to prevent what would have been my death, whereupon he administered several more kicks and tola me he would, "finish me". He then ran to the camp for his rifle and after a hurried discussion one of the other guards to ok me into the jungle where he informed roe that Pte YESTER fully intended to shoot me and that he and the other guards could not prevent it happening other than by hiding me. This guard Pte' NUMA.RA, hid roe in a cisused hut. and some hours later I was re- turned to camp. Pte N U f M A mustered the other PW and in- formed them that YESTER had fully intended to kill me, and warned them to a void him whenever possible. Pte YESTER refused to allow me to go to the nearby POW Hospital Camp for treatment until several days had elapsed, and threat- ened me with severe punishment if I reported the matter, I later reported the matter to Lieut-Col C.H. ELACK, 213 Res M.T, Coy, and I was admitted to hospital in spite of opposition from YESTER, who withheld my bedding etc. &fter approx three weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for contusions and "black outs", YESTER suc- cessfully demanded my return to camp and three days later he thrashed an Australian private named CA.SEY for not buying cane sugar from a source which yielded YESTER material gain. On my intervention to stop this thrashing, YESTER loaded his rifle and was about to shoot Pte CA.SEY when he was disarmed by other guards who fortunately ar- rived on the scene. /Corroborative DOCU?^!^ NO, 5260 Page 3 Corroborative evidence mav be obtained from Sgt E . Allen, 2/6 Fid C07 Dvr Buller, 2/3 Res M。T。COY ATF, Pte C. Patching, 1IF, anc" Spr E。 Caie.well,2/6 Fid Coy F.»/V。3。爽IF。 As a result of the beatings a Id out the head I suffered from lapses of memory and hallucinations for a period of eighteen months and received treatments for same at Changi Hospital frcrr September 194く. to January 194.5. 耵hilst in. charge of a detached cattle party (as above) I was forced early in Septemjor 19斗3 to place a member of the parxy to guard a Burmese civilian who had been brought to the carrp by a Korean ^uard, whose name I do not kno T f, who was in charge of 18 Kilo (Jarre, Burma-Thai Railway cattle party. '\IF members of this party informed ire that the Burmese had been forced to accompany them from a spot between FSTPU and 18 Kilo Camp, wnsre they had met him walking slcng 七he read, The Earroese was tied to a wooden seat by our quarters, anc 1 I was informed that if he escaped, myself and the other PO— 7: responsible ,iT orli? be tied in his place. The Guards then proceeded to get drunk and at frequent intervals during the afternoon they in turn -unmercifully thrashed the Burmese about the body with a six foot bamboo pole。 After several hours of this intermittent; treatrrent they forced a Burir.ese civilian who was passing by, to thrash his countryman, and they insisted that he thrash him about the head and chest in order to inflict wounds by means of the bamboo pole which nad now become split for about two feet of its length。 When the Bernese wielding the pole tended to ease off in the beating, the guard struck him several times to enforce pore drastic wielding of the "bambo.：)。 When the Burmese was thrashed to a point of insensibility and Has raw and bleeding severely from head wounds the guards decided to shoot him and ordered me to provide two POW 1 s to assist the Burmese to a spot some 400 yards from the scene of the thrashing and to b.ury the body after the shooting。 Two guards namec Pte KING and another private naired YfiSTER each fired a bullet into the Burmese after which they ordered the two P0'7 3 Pte YULSING and Pte VEFBAAJB of the Royal Netherlands Forces to bury the body. Ptes V E R M E S and YULSING witnessed the shooting and reported the details to me on their return to camp。 The Burmese har in his possession a fair sum of money which to the best of rry .belief 'later taken by the Korean guards. Corroborative evidence may be obtained from Sgt C。 Walsh ane Sgt. E , A.llen of 2/6 Fd C03、 r:4S 4IF, Dvr W . BT T LLER, 2/3 Res K . T . Goy ムエ？ .Sr>r. E e C r d w e l l , 2 / 6 Fd Coy BAE A I ^ ? . and Ptcs YULSING and VEEBAi^S, of R.N.F., Java„ The Korean guards mentioned were under the command of a Japanese officer, Lieut NEITO, of Retpu P0'<7 Hospital Camp. エ certify that the foregoing evidence is true and correct. /s/ A。 E。 Cnllen W O I I Taken and sv/orn before me at Sydney this eighteenth day of January 194-6 S . Philp Commissioner DOOJIIENT N . P E x h i b i t Jliei This is the doe":raGnt marker). Exhibit. U K" referred to ir the affidavit of YX^9006 Mgj J。I: Lloyd sworn before me this 27th day of May 19^6 び being prod'acod and shown to him at ths tiae of his t w s a r m g his saia arfiaavil:。 «—~ ふニ作ニ”^ w 。：二 レパち-;•)”-'-- An officer of the Australian Military Forces Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. S Y N O P S I S JLIINAN I S L I 風 a) prosecution Docuxuent numbered 53351 the affidavit of Dr# ！ ! H t is nov offered for identification, the lmrkeo. excerpts bcin^ produced in evidence. This affidavit states thut in Kovembor f 1942, 263 officers and men p/マ arrived in Hainan• The accoiamodation for the draft which consisted of sick, weak and aged men, was appall- ing. }jats were infested with vermin* sanitary arrangenients were primitive and since the conq) v/us situated near a drainuge swanip, riiosquitoes were ubiquitous, pood was generally inadequate and some— times grossly insufficient. Between November, 1942 and A u g u s t , t h e r e were 2 t U30 admissions to hospital. There were 60 deaths due to disease. Sick Lien were forced to go on working parties, where the work wus heavy, i./̂ n were frequently beaten. a complciint to the c^inp com•ねnd过nt regarding the reduction of food resulted in the witness and en other officer bein b beaten• He quests to the jtipanes© M*0# to supply dru^s una for improved diet wore ignored• Deaths were sometimes shovcion death certuicates as due, to starvations The M»0's reply was that if the witness continued to shev; dt.ath as due to stLLrvation f hc woulc\ shev. r the prisoners what dc^th from stujrvation recilly inê int • b) prosecution docuii'jont nuiabored 5264^1 the ；^fiaavit 01 lujor MkCRALf is produced for identifiCuition f and the narked excerpts therein now offered in evidence. The document states that in jyTcvcuibc: ; 1S'42, the v/itness arrived in Hainan ；?itli a draft of men. Kc confirms the conditions described in the preceding document No^5335 The men wore t-n^aged on building works for the- use of the Japanese ^riay f and wei*e beaten and kicked while- so doings M m y men went to work barefoot f owin^ to lack of footwear. in Haisho there were many coolics Y/orkin^ v They were starved una emaciated in uppcarcjnce # The witness saw the dead boaies of coolics draped out of the hospital, hen he passed by; sometimes as nitiny cls ton to twelve t For breaches of ciscipline, coolies were brought to the p/ビ C ^ P whore they were f l o w e d and given the liter torture• in JUly, 1943, about 120 Chinese were bayonet ted to death outside the G^tap, Ijvidcntiary rocuuuat #5457 Pt^go 2 c) prosecution Document numbered 5250, the Affidavit of F , "TMSOR. is now introduced for identification, the marked excerpts thereof bein^, effered in evidence. The docunent states th^t about 120 Chinese were bayonet ted to ueo.th in 1543, bocausc narcotics h“d betai illegally brought into a coolie caiap anし these laen chosen at random were executed as a. warning for tho future. d) prosecuticn dccuinent numberoC. 52'jl, the Affidavit of M.JOH E.G. is produced for rdc.n-fci.fioabion, the inarked excerpts thoiり-of bein^ introduced in evidence, •了his Ai'i'iaavit uxnibits 29 official photc^r^.phs tcken by an Allied officer of prison&rs of war rescvored. at Hainan islund in August， IS45. li'iese exhibits arc now tendered, in evidence. Lvidentiary Document -f. 5120 • 2 Bicycleso rs*3〇0/- British coinc. Rs # 70 t 000 jap currency• , All furnitures and clothings. ！ The I23.IPSIT. t xI did not tell me the reasons for uy uncle's arrest • since that day エ did not hear anything； about 访 uncle。 only when the jap surrender took place ェ heard that iry uncle had been tor- tured to death J)y the ICEITEIT^xI of H O (date NOT known). But a prisoner v:ho escaped from the custody of the a/m FSIPETAェ H•门 wa (v/hich was situated in a garden between irtAIKPI (1.15596) and PHETK/JLEIK ft£497) 5 told me that my uncle uas put in the same pit with him and tortured • ®SHCilessiy. # _] The escaped prisoner's name is m TUN YI of • C K T A N nr # f KY^IKTO. I can definitely state that [wy uncle if ell a victim to the KEt.IPEITAI tortures beeにuse he ： has not returned to his home since he was crrested,] (Signed) x x x x recorded by LIB on 15 ITov. 45 ITAIirTO (I； 5298) (Signed) E0. Lt. Det 602 F.S.S. 63 JXid̂ inf. Bdc 0 This statenent has been read over to the witness in a lanjuaし’e which he understands and has been aclcnov/ledtjed by hin to be correct. (Signed) BA K0 f Lt. Det.602 F.S.S. 63 m d . inf • 3de, STA7IIIOTT OF SiJ丁 ITĜ TL r y” IC[AU<T0) Nanie ： I.G Sz'JST NG^TE (Nephew of U SuJa KHO of IC.UTIN village nurdered by IZETdPE孤I, KY"IKT0) 39 years. Father： u 了 n Caste • B u m m , Buddhist • Address s KOSiJUNE or 0 7 KYiJCKTO (1,6298) IS Sz'JNT NGVffii having been duly affirmed, states；- I solemnly and sincerely declare that I the rhole truth, nothinc but the truth # ！ On 20 June 45,7 KEHPETTAI personneljled IPjor KHAW^SiJTI of EYムIKTO m.TriTAI,厂cai承 to I0;； ；7herc iny uncle u S-ふ了 10-10 and myself v/ere residinc # The KEMPEITAI searched our house and took aray the folioマin“.property together uith W uncle as their prisoner:- r;ill tell the truth, by KATO and 良 t . ^ D J village (H5099) 1 2 3 4 /—\ y — \ / \ / \ Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. IN THE LETTER OF MAR CRIIES COHTITED E£ THE Jiu^^ISSE IN HTRIM. A F F I D A V I T , It Lieutenant-Cc'lonel ED'JAiiD LIE:7ELLYN JOHN COUCH, Royal m巧 service Corps, with present address au h‘ ied L^nd Forces soath East Asia, Singapore, roahe oath and say as fc 丄丄01/3:- 1. I am a sclie iter of the supreme Court of judic-oture in Zn^nud and I hot held th3 apj>ointment of Assistant judge Advocate General, Crimes Legal sectic»n, Allied "Land Forces South '^ast Asia c 2« I have been in correspondence with HQ, EURISi Comnaiid concerning the alleged massacre by the .Japanese in June 1945 of a number of tvemen and children civilian inhabitaiics of the village of EHAING in Burma # 3» investigticns are far from complete and up to date I have received only stateiaoiits from eye-vvitnessec； copies of the said statements being now produxod and Giio\;n to lb and lis.tkod "EBAING A w , ^BATN'Cr B”, and "EBAIKG C n respectively and hereunto ar^nu^ecl, 4* I have personal^ examined the said copies *ji.th the. said original statements and that the last mentioned vere received at this HQ from HI BURI/fi. C0MM3D t ST•了ORN by the saicl Edward Llev/ellyn St« John COUCH at Singapore this 17th day of April 1946. (Signed) E.Ll* St. Lt, J. COUCH. Col, Bof ore nie， (Sicnod) ？ Mi o.ff.1 cer detailed Con:ioander-ir--Chief ALFSEA to iniorrogcito v/.iin̂ sseti. (i/c war Ci'inies Legal section,) by the Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. I ； 一 " E E A D T G J l , " . J TIIIS is the copy statement marked "EBaING A ff referred to in the Affidavit of Lt. Col # Edv/ard LlCT/ellyn st • John COUCH hereunto annexed and inade before me this 17th day of April 19i|6 # (Signed) Colonels OHN I^AETG (25 years) d/o UNGE and • CHAN THA of EBAING village, having been duly affirmed states： エ recognise this man d o , TOYAO YASUl.^SA) and pointed hiin out on the identification parade # on about the 2l|.th June 19451 early in the morning this inan r/ith another Japanese soldier cane to the house vhere I uas living. The other soldiers could speak Eurmese and told us that we had to go to tho phongyi- Eyaung to collect permits for cultivation• Ihis v;as done only to allay our suspicions • エ had slept the ni^ht in U jjga Mulay»s house and many others had coxne there for tho night as they v/ere frigiitened of the japs who had arrived the previous evening. These two soldiers took all the womenfolk and children to Ah f]yain f s house uhore vie found about 3° v/oiaen and children. There r/ere a number of japs near ブJi l、]yaing«s house • wo wore pushed inside and after about tv/o hours we were fired on by xoichine guns, ilie firing continued until all the crying and meaning had ceased # 1 vas wounded in my right hip,under my left arm and on .qy right hand, if any one cried out the firing started up again• Tftien everything had been quiet for some time smoke began filling the rooxn and one side of the house vas on fire. I tore up some floor boards and escaped. After running about 30 yards 1 v;as fired on by the japs but not hit • 1 met I.势脚上 The en in the evening and stayed together in the jun^e • The next raorning two I jar en s t whose names I do not remember, found us and carried me to Llinkathit village v:here エ rcirained three months f recovering from 聰 uoiinds; I then returned to rsy sister's house near EBA.ING, • This statement has been read over to tho '̂ .Titxiess in a language she understands and has been acknow- ledged correct # X Left Thumb print of OHN I.^AING, - ( identi Recorded by me on 23rd November 1945 a "t an /ficaion parade at ITOI31I.5EIK JAIL. (Signed) G.I. LEWIS. • •、 Capt• 3 Pin, BIO. Att：17 Div. Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. 1 • • I ^EBAPTG B" | This is the copy statement Diarked »»EBAJNG B" referred to in the affidavit of i/に Col t Eclvard Llo\?ellyn St. John COUCH hereunto annexed and made before me this 17th day of April 194^. (Signed) ？ Colonel, m SM THKEtJ (aged 20 years) d/o CHIN liiA and CHAN LAY of EBAING village, having been duly affirmed states： I recognise this man (Corp, TOYAZAKl HIROSHI) and pointed him out on the identification parade # aa about the 24th June 1945t early in the morning before dawn, he come to our house uith two others# with me in the house were five people, njy mother 9 tvo sisters and brother • iTiDther and tv:o sisters and itself were tied together by our OTists and taken by these three soldiers to AYE L!G ! s house # This raan v/hom I recognised took away one of xny sisters from AYS I.E's house and エ have net seen her since j she was probably killed with the others in AH NYAI!、TG f s house• AYE I-.G's house v/as crowded with women and children. After some time the japs started firing at the house with mchine guns, v/liile the people v/ere with me shouted and cried the firing continued• x v/as hit on my right elbow but Y/as saved from death as I v/as under other bodies. l?hen the house started to burn I jumped out through the v/indov; and ran off into the jungle where towards eveningj met OHN I.KAJNG v/ho v/as badly hurt 0 The next morning we wore found by tuo Karon men who took us to MIHKATHIT village• This statoment has been read over to the witness in a language x she understands and has been I^ft ^hurnb print of acknowledged correct. 1®. SAN THEEN. Recorded by me on 23rd Nov. 1945 at an identification parade lield at MOULIvICIK JAIL. (Signed) G f I # LSWIS. C^pt • 3 Pin. B.I.C. Attd f 17 Div. IT/identiary Document 浮 513^. 一. }l r : | : .EBA皿 C n . ' THIS is the copy s tat exigent narked "IBAJKG C" referred to in the Affidavit of Lt# Col # Etoard Llewellyn st # John COUCH hereunto annexed, and made before me this 17th day of A p r i l (Si;ned) ？ COLONUL, AH YI d/o Ah Kyain and Kan Ed of Ebuinこ;翏 havinr： been duly affirmed statesj I recojnise this man (irUlTJHA SHISり）and pointed him out on the identification parade» on the 2i|th June 1945s before davm he came to isy house • He caine with another soldier• imother。irl,AK YOIIC v;as with me in the house # This Japanese soldier tied my left T7rist \7ith cord and led me out of the house; the other soldier did the same to AE YCftE •17e \7ere taken through the coiiipound towards AYE ： 5 ! s house• AH YONE and her escort was separated from us in the jungle, “s I followed this inon I freed my r/rist and ran off into the junie^ He fired after me but did not hit me # I ran about a mile from the village and stayed in the jungle for two days without food® I then went to a Keren's house in the jungle and next day he took me to sister's house in KYONSAUK. Left ihnnb print of .AH YI, Recorded by me on 23rd tyov. 1945 邸 identification parade held at IIOTILJIZIIT JiJIL. This statement has been read over to the witness in a laneua^e she understands and has been ackno\7- led^ed correct• (Signed) G.I. LEWIS, C^ptc ジ 3 B山。 A t t： 1 7 Div, Ev i d e n t i a r y Document No。 5346, Page 2. 1 公 3 う 汗 FORI,: OF S T m i T T . / statement of captain J e C,B, 3UTJ}HaN (307036), an officer cf the Rcyal Borlisliiro Reし:iiuentdetailed tc investiししte vox crrnos by the ccorx^er-in一chief, Allied ifzid forces, scuth E^st Asia. I have teerx investi 0 atixic v;ar crincs in the MOULTIilTT croc. f xne riajority of these comitted in that area v;ere coo.iited in the last five nonths cf the yjcx^ The Defence \;cnt into rovclt m April,and British r^r^chutist units: ucrkirio riてh then 8 rL.de a serious tlireat to the Japanese rear c The japcuieso m d o every effort to sLiash these forces before tlic Fourteenth jjrr̂ r cculd r^ikc a sec borne attacl: aloi^ the cc act • The crirxs corxiitted before “pril uore riostly of an caiti-es A iona^e nature, or resulting fron the recapturc cf ?s” who hc.d eGcaped fron the BURLl^ — SLJV! pailv/ay f or fron the cc^turo cf Allied airnen v;hc rere brou 0 ht dot/n in that area # Tlic. cases listed be lor; are at present under investigation； TiiO Case of the 27 l,‘]issinし Bur“jai:s。 The irenpei T^i arrested about 1^0 people in the I:IOULx!EIIT area who were suspected of political offences® 27 cf these r;ere ruueved fron the MOULMEIN Jail on 24 July 45 under stronし esccrt. since this date, ncne of the nen have returned tc their hcrxs f nor have their families received any nerd of thei io The JjOUK.SIIT irerpei state that they v/cre released on the 24th, and deny they v:cre rcrx)ved under cscort, tut there arc rxiny witnesses to the fact that they \:ex-e bound und under escort when relieved • L ITcnpei T^i cfficcr m d c a statement to an mtellitjenco officer cf 17 ind Div in fTCv 45, statin^ that tLey had shot the i:Bn and burned the corpses； but lie refused to si^n the statement and ncv denies all knowledge of the incident # The 27 were all leaders cf the local aJTFL, ；oiiisations. The EBzlDTG T^issucre. EDム and Ycutli Le^^ue Hi jun 45 a punitive expedition of japcaiesc infantry, accompanied by Kenpei ^ont tc SEEING village in search cf allied parachutists, and their accomplices, T'iie Japanese arrived in the evonin^ and arrested tke v;hole village,, They separated the wenen and children fron the rjen» Surly the next i“crnir心 they tied tlic villagers into し:roups of 10 to 12 9 First, they rerjevod tho nen to the villace pagoda, ,nd opened fire on them : f ith 2 ^chine-Guns, killing all e ^o r/onen and children v?ere dealt fritli in the sar.:e v/ay # sone babies in lxt.is v/ere baycnctted tc death• in all, 97 people were killed, the only survivors bein^' 2 しiris v/Lo escaped ’じlthoujjl上 v/oiinded. One rirl hしd 7 bullet rounds, The Japanese then {burned dcyn the village. 实deiitiory Dc-cur.ient 社 5337 • 2 . III. Tlie KALAGOI‘T inssa".re c Tliis caso has already bo en tried： and the japrjiese conceriied convicted.ム punitive &.xi:cdi-ion of iiifant.ry and I'cnoei T^i t:a3 sent to destrcy Ei.J^GON villcもo, uith the result that sor.i.e 630 persons ；rere killed and throTm down the village wclls s The charge against the I villagers yas thcit they v:ere heipin^. Allied paratroops in tliat ；j-eu. I The village vus supply.inij that oh and food to par::c’nutists。 i I TT. Si x J orders at T'II/.TON„ in tke ccuxsc cf anti-parachatist activities in the T:.IAT0N j area, six Lien wsre arrested. These aen v/ere coi.fiiied in the T''i/iTQt： I'enpei tしi lcck-up for a reek, and then token nad shot. Tlieir bodies r/ere rescued by tiicir parents 'Lhs iii。h.t after they were sLct. j V. Seven jiarders at Sli^FZU Vi]l“ L e, ム s m l l force of Japanese irenrai T^i uent to SEiijCiU village； in the last \:oelz of July 45 0 T^cy had orders fror. the 0,C, I'enpoi T^i, M0TJI1!EIN» to arrest and k i l l 1 9 oen. of these, only seven could to found. 一 these r.ien y/ere suspected of h&lpin i 'jp£.rc.trcops« These seven were shot in front cf several v/itnesges and their bodies were recovered !later. j YI. renpei Tai ..ctivitj&s in l!0 T JTi 1E3 .Tail. At present,six people are known to have died as a result' cf torture in HOUjI^B! Jcii 0 Of these, four died after r&lease, and two died in the j a i l , 1 a.；, in ；possession of sea 4〇 affidavits relating; to ！ tortures in the jail； these tortures r. njed fron beatinじ.to water and i electric tortures e ィ 'II. Atrocities of the m j ： j;iH' :rei.:poi T^i. r;.VX.PEHT じas used as a base for Ala icd operations in the j DユI Forest area, of which EALAGCN and E E U fomod a part, suspects j wore broufet into ir- If： for li.terro^ation, whioli, in racst cases, i included torturo. Sono 20 people died of torture3 rsaeived there, 丨 VIII. Tl e T H Cas&。 a party of i:or:ipei Tai rent to IVJIARA and arrested 25 people j suspected of anti-jav^eae urt xvi t5.es of thene 2f,, tio ど。！1,kil]ed. \ 5 山は released 16 ? tii.-,y ef t 4 with the japonoss Garri:3OTi P trl;： oil j killed thou, Tbo bodies cf i;hose ucn have beeii recovered, and there I vrere witnesses \c the itJJIir^s, lyidentiary Dc'cuuent ；ブ 5337• The Four 1,̂1 ssin^ Jioyal 4 Hcyal I urines Cf the S,〇 0 G, were loiided cn EXLUGYUIT エ，in ム丄：ril 45。 The nen were- captured and coen alive in the K e T . lock-up in M0UIi2E T ； since then they huve disapi eared • They ucrc i"0T j repatriated as rsU at the surrender.エ七 has been proved that they ！ uere in unif c m , and vrerc carrying unconcealed arr.:s. ^ (SiC-^ J. BUTcCIILZ： (?) Captain Iiivcsti^atcr« Certified thしt the above sti-.teuent is accurate and correct« (Signed) ？ 11 JUL colonel JDCA预 . Butlb Corxiand. Evidentiary Docuiicnt # _533ら. HIG^STII Noburo F U J H ny。z。 KOB.'.Y^SHI Aliira Ki.G..^ Toshijuki NOMT/fO I:iru:i rOU丄I®T0 Seiichi all netibers of Eerapetai, CHARGES: ム11 accused wore chained in the first place with conmittin^ a war crirjo ii：that they were conccrned in the unlawful killing of nei, and v:oncn and cliildron, civiliai. inliabitants of IL.J^GON, and in the second flace vith conuittinc a rar criue in that they were concerned in the unlawful beating, torture, rouiidin^aiicl other aaltreatx.icut of the said civilian inhabitants of KAL‘GON. The first narjEd accused i.tijor ICHIKjご.:‘ Sci^'i was further cliargei with the unlawful abduction of ronen from the said village of H - G O N ジ rROSECUTIOF: jTosucutiou case consisted of the ovidence しf several villagers fron KiX^GON, a i:arcn by n^iue SiJ: lu：".' EU v;ho had served as an intorpretc: v:itli the jreupetai and statei.:ents by several of the accused. The evidence v;as to the effect tlui.t the 3rd battalion alone uith a nunber of iぐcxipetai personnel v/ent on un expedition to IL丄、GONi the villagers i^erc rounded up； soue of theu r;ere interrogated by the Kei'-ipetiii oni later the villagers v/ere nassacred by the Japanese soldiers on the orders of accuscd I C H U the operatioi beinし superiaSwided by his junior officers. THE つ！:、ORT OF LIIUTIIU^ COLOKEL ム.M. STUEROGK", rHESIDEMT, NO. 4 じ卫 CEIISS COURT, ILJ^GOON, 0IT THL 二:R CRIIiCS TRIALS COI.rlETED AT ILJTOOOK. 1.KTL-SON CASE: 1批< I^jor ICHH^.rA Soiiii Capt 0 Suburo C。-ildCO^O Ycz.0 Ca; t /fc, Y:T.じ;HS；二 izux-ii Ĉ ip-t , EIC;“ Hisashi 2/Lt, U-3Ui lS.yoli.iro Lieut, US'Sll^ loliiro Li'-ut, Tj-JSI SLczo all of the 3rd 3：レ，215 Rc乙t‘，，33 Div., I.J.i., iroIij£ut"§cpl ^Tvidentiary Do current fi 533^ • 2 ”a.i-er^^o^t i n l o r i ^ a t i ° n s れ T ; a s a l l c ^ c ( i that persons intcrro- DEFI1TCE: The defor.dint officer asked the court tc dismiss the charges against certain o•‘、the accused on the ground tliat there was no case to ansT7er # The Ccur*; held ⑴ that there mis no case a^、inst and accordingly f ；und hin 'net guilty (2) all the ueubera of the 3rd battalion m s t ixvie their defence on all chains and (3) that the renain. inc r.ienbers cf ths i:eupeta.\ oust onsver the sec end charge but that there waa no case against thou vr:th the eSaepticn cf accused NOMDTO on the firsi charge in respect of which a verdict cf 得not guilty* was entered.丄ccuso NOMOTO had tc nako his def(ncc on both charts 0 All accu;5ed cloct^d to 乙ive evidence. The defence on tte first charび by the nenbers cf the Jrd battalion was that the operation hud been carried cut under superior orders, ob a rocasure of reprisals^ and that it v;qs not obviously illegal. in addition it m.s subuitted that the accused QKUBO, S ^ M J d , USUI and TUJZEI hし.d not be£ n ccncerned in the operation and should there- fore be found '••not ̂ uilty % These accused, althoufo present f were f it was subr.iitted, en^^cd only on work whicii v:as le4tii“ate_ On the second chrtrse th6 defence was a denial that there uqs any unnecessary' i 11-treatr.ient, The defence of Mijor ICHUGiWA on the 3 r d charge v:ac that th© vovbu Tvere taken cf their o\m free \iill. The defence of t】.e j^eLibera of the K^upetai on the second charge rcxs denial of the allegations with the further defence by Capt • HIGASHI that as he was not present at K/JLAGON and had {jiven no order for the use of lll-treatant f h运 shoulc not be held responsible• The defence oi NCMCTO on first charge was a denial* Evidentiary Dccui-ient ガ 533^ • 3 . \ F E D D T G S SIHrn T CL5. N a n e F i n d i n g ； s e n t e n c e l^ijor ICHUL'. u. Soi^i Guilty of -11 3 cliorしes D e a t h by h a i ^ i ^ v:ith certain inor exceptions• Capt. SiiUMFI Guilty• 10 years ir‘prisonant. Saburc C^-pt* CEUBO Yczo cじpt. M D o r m d Hisashi Li-out. Ti'^snm Ichiro ircd.. 2/Lt. USUI Ifiyohiro Lieut • Sl'-ozo C-pt • YUGISA：;ム I2Ul.il c-pt. HIGASHI Noburo V.O. FUJT.:J^ Hyozo SLit/l^ j. HOa'X^HI Akira SCt. HOIOTO rinni rot Guilty Guilty ir Kct 2nd n o- f fr 1st ClaaroC Fct Guilty 10 years inprisciiuent D e a t h by shooting、 D c a t h by shooting. 10 years inpriscniaent D e a t h by shooting® 3 years ir^risoriLient 7 years inprisonLient Guilty Charge Guilty 5 years ii:iprisom-jent Cpl^ 職 E T 0 T 0 Sciichi Net Guilty• Findings and scntcnccs liavc not; been confirned • rOTE 0I T E7IDI^ T CE; The prsccution witnesses related liov: cn tho arrival of tho Japanese at the village cf Ifala^on, the vilienors had been jatherod tc^ctiicr and the nen put in the uosque and w o n and children in the ncibhbcurii^. Zayct # Thereafter a few cf the vill-^ers v/ere taken for interrogation by the Eonpetai^ ^YxO nest reliable witness on the netliod of interrogation i?as the interpreter SAT7 K；:: IOJ. He testified that soue of the villagers had been beaten, that their hands had been tied behind Evidentiary Dccui.,ent 祐 3 3 3 、 4. tlieir backs, a rope fixed tc. the cord binding, their hands passed over a bcar.1 on the roof and the victiu pulled off the crcund • v M l e handing in tliis oxcccdin^ly painful position the interrogation had ^one cn and the vietin frequently beaten. The； actual nasscicrc m s ccrricd cut by taking the villagers in groups of abcut 25 tc the nearby veils v;here tliey were bayonet ted and then thrCTTn into the v;ells # Tlie dcfence callcd as witnesses Cel. TSU3I/J);i, the corxiarider of 213 •?々 しt. and Capt, P L U A H " his operational staff officer. In evidence both these officers stated tlicit the operation of E/X/‘GON \vas caja^i-ed. gut oil orders fron the Division. ィ W | , l > H l i I I. 11 ， 一 メ - ダ Col # TSUE/J1: hovrever in ansv/er to the questions by the court sUijL^sted tl>at ICIIILd had ccrtain discretion as tc whether or not he would kill nil the viHaters• ^he witness stated that what nas done by ICIiU^il'A Und his battolicn て;as in cciiforLiity v/ith their orders and t h ^ t h a d in no ray exceeded his orders^ Col. TSUID'iDA expressed the vicv; that lack of tine and shortage cf nmipo\;cr xjere aniplo justification for dispensing with any trial in fhc case of the inhabitants of HL‘G0F cind that as the Japanese yere satisfied the villagers v;erc acting in a m n n e r hostile to the occupying pov/er tho circmastances rcre sufficiently しrave to force the 、jai、anesG to carry cut the nass c::ecution # / I^jor icnn•フ-ム v/lion asked the follcwin^ questions： 〜 D o you really tLink that vonen and children rere actinし against the Japanese “ruy. A . Yes. rj. Hen do you justify the killing of tlic infant children. ニ. There was no other alternative r;ay of dealing with the children Q,. ipcplain that q little further # First f uithin the orders I roceived, the killing of the children was also included, jf I spared the children they would be orphans, and as such they could not have a living. in order SL.VC tine and carry out 可 duties,工 could not help killing then“ / Accused l.ODOHIIZ/iV/A じcore the follcwinc answers to questions； A. k. Do ycu not think then since you consider the order ycu have rcccivcd unlavrful it v/as your duty to make comしnts to your senior officer エCHEG:.:" I do not think it unlawful• Dし you think the lcillinし cf wonon and children in KALaGOM a laxvful order • I cannot say whether it was a lawful order 9 but due to the i-ilitary necessity and force of circumstances the h i ^ e r Evidentiary Docunent 伴 533^• 5- I presui.:e that there are circur.^stances in which it is lawful. yes. in vhat circur.istances v;as it laxvful # Circui:istances arc that if the people interrogated refuse cr refuse to confess their 乙 uilt of their doings and if it affects victory of the nation or if it is very import ant that the informtion nust be cxact• Is that the General principle accepted in the Japanese arny in its interrc^ations• I do not knev; v;hether it is a principle of Japanese aruy to use force during interrogation. It is just 可 opinion. According to the eviaence cf the Hcadmn of the village who had escaped, approxinately 600 villagers v;erc collccted by the Japanese f about 155 v/onen,175 rxn and 2 6 0 children, only very few cf those persons escaped mssacre. corxiond had issued the order after ccnsiaerin^ the circumstances. Sc ェ"believe it to be ri^ht • r\. you believe that any order issued to you by superiors is lawful order• A . 瓜 to now ue have always considered an order frcn higher corxiand to be correct. 0, T〔 be lawful• A. irrespective of anything an order ^iven in the oruy should be exccutod sc that the final object of the uar shall be a success® n. Therefore you are prepared tc- do any order 乙iven by a superior irrespective of v/hatever you yourself m y think about that order• A« If it is an order of a superior officer I nust obey the order against anything f fire or uater® Cel. TSUILDA in ansuしr to the question： ムs a senior officer of the Japanese lieu do yen justify the ueasures which v/ere taken in H G O N , A* The people of KALiiGON village v;ere hostile towards the Japanese, therefore they could be killod. it was pitiful to kill the children but as they could net be taken cure of by the Japanese arny they had tc be killed. D。you consider that in all cases v:hore people are hostile tc you you are entitled to kill then # A . ェ an of the c:inion that proper investigation should be m d e before such hostile people were killed, but in consideration of lack of tir.ie and rianpoucr they had tc do the killing* On the question cf use of force durii: 0 interrelations, witness K / m in answer to the questi。n. • • • ••• n i “ A a v A c - A Ividentiary Docm.:ent 弁 533ら• f 2. HI：； COUBTS The accused：- ！ capt • UYUJO I^saharu Capt. YiUZiZl Kanane lumbers of or attached tc the Kenpetai• CI-LlT̂ GE? Both the accused v:ere ciiarGed with comLiittin^a var criae in that 1 they v;ere concerned in brutality towards and ill-treatnent of certain 1 prisoners cf uar resulting the deaths of five of the said prisoners• I ； rnosECurioN： The prosecution case consisted cf a nuiuber of affidavits by j ex-prisoners of war who had been held at one tine in iJew Lav; Courts ‘Annexe jail and statoo^nts imcle by tlic accused, in this evidence it vms { alleged that, follcwinこ，an attenpted escape the prisoners of war v/ere ！ beaten mercilessly by guards on the orders of C'-pt • UYENOj it was I further allowed that no nedical attention was ^ivon to any cf the sick ’or injured prisoners of war, and that the deaths resulted fron the j severe beatings and conplete lack cf nodical attention® DEFENCE: Both the accused elected to しive evidence 9 They also called injor ゾJHYAMi Hideo cn their behalf• ^he defence pleaded denial cf prosecution allegations, accused UYENOt in- particular, denied that prisoners of war v:ere beaten after the att615:ted escape and also that he refused, to allow nedical attention tc be (jiven to prisoners of war• The radical officer clained that Le had,never refused to £jive nedical attention when requested； that his duties in connection with the annexe were pnly ンart of a very lar乙e nunber of duties which he was expected to p e r f c m and that he was seriously handicapped by lack cf rxdical supplies. I FBIDBTGS iiKD SEKTENCLS, N a n e. F i n d i n g . s e n t e n c e . UYU T 0 IJisoharu Guilty Death by han^inc # C^pta Yムr^Z/iKI Iffmauc Not Guilty. Finding and sentence have been confirmed. Evidentiary Dccui:ient 林 533^• j FOTI： or I77IDJTCL: Tlic affidavits produced by the prosecution contained consideral j ccrrcbcrc.ticn cf the fact th^t tho prisoners of vox eo^-iously j beaten ii.i;]Cdiately after the attempted escape und at .intervals thereoftc durin^ tlie tine tliey reijainca in the lien ^cxj Courts Annejcci jail, I パ 一 ITol the testir二しny cf accused it appears that under an order ブ fron very Idしii authority the airmen \;ero to be treated difforenfcly fron other jriscuers gf v;ar and uere in fact tc be regarded as crijainal suspects； the intention secr^s to have been that they should "oe charged ^ as r;ar criLiinals cn account cf having carried out indiscrininate borabir^ The accuscd contended that in their viev; the prisoners of t7ar should l.c t have been lcd^cd in this jail .jic that they m d c represent at: : tc that cffoct • (3. KCU L..V： COURTS C..GL. The uccuscd-- Capt. R.G.JLJL'. I'fcnzo Ca:t. U H I i:anai.iu 2/Liout. YQTOTム 1.1-sao Cpl- NODム I^sani “11 ueriberQ or attached to the ironpetai, GORGES: All accused were charged with ccn.dttin^ a war crioo in that tiicy rare conccrned in the ill-treatment causing physical suffering to the prisonerf3 of vox interned at Net7 Law Courts jail. The first three accused verc further charこcd with ill-trcatncnt resulting in the death of four prisoners of war. Tlie first naijed accused and the third and 1;he fourth naucd accuscd v;ere further charged v,ith ill-trcatixnt resulting in the death of another prisoner of war. /Jid the second naraecl cccused was further cliarijed with ill- treatment resulting in the ceath of tvo additional prisoners cf war. rHOSSCUTIOr； The prosecution cしsc ccnsisted of a nui.ibor of affidavits by fcrner prisoners of v/or, stctcr^nts by all the accused and the tcstinony of two civilian \;itncsscs whe had been vrisoners in the jail and of a japaiicse corporal•1 Ividentiary Dccuncnt § 533^• DEFLNGS: The accused and Y-iFAZ/JCI elected tc c±vc cvidcnce 011 oath a Tlx© accused Y0I!0TA and UODA on the advice cf the defending officer declined to しivc evidence. <pho defence was a denial of the allegation to^tlior v;itli a clain that in so far as tho ocndi'tIols r.orc unsatisfactory in tlic jail it uas not the fault of any of the n ecu sod as they v;ero net responsible for the nature cf the bui丄dinし. $ nunbor cf prisoners to bo housed, xhe quantity of food available 9 the quantity cf nedical supplies and of the fact that there were also coi.ji.ion criiiinals in the jail. Hi rospoct cf accuscd 2TOD-. ̂ further point was i:しde regardin^; the i:ietlicd cf identification v:hich it was claincd, was inproperly oarried cut and could not thcroforc be accepted by the ccurt• F B D I N G S SLl T TE^i:S, 11 o. n c m Capt • KixGiJLJl.. Ecnzc Capt. Y / J U :ェ Ifanaue 2/Lt. YOICOTA IPscic I 1 i n d i n 0 s. Guilty cf 1st 2-Tct Guilty of iTxQ charしgs, Fct Guilty• Guilty of the Hot Guilty cf cl crしe« the rerain- lst charge• the 4 years ii.iprisciment 2 years inprisoiment reminin乙 charges < Cpl. HODA m s a n i Not Guilty, The findings and sentences have been confirri^do j NOTT ON EVZCTCNC：^ This case uas siriilar tc the previous ono in thしt it concerns the troatLicnt cf Airi“on prisoners cf vrar。 ^s in the ムnnexG case it was clairied that these c.irnen v;ere ledしed in this jail on orders from hi^L conxiaiid becaucc they v;crc regarded as criiiinal susiccts fJ The O X * of the jail stated that in his viox; it v;as v;roi^ that prisoners of war should be put into this jail but that ho had no alternative but to こcccpt then v/heri tliey v/ere sent. He saia lie uade r epr e s ent at ion to have then roi.icved to a :0.て lyidontiary D(. cunent # 5 3 3、 % “ YIDTTETGCr CムSL” Tl:e accused； IDLTA Facc HIGムSIII ITcbcrc m Y i J ニ isaku IIOBilYi'iSHI .Jcira KJ r iiSIIIFA Tcl^ycshi SHIOT“ Toshil:irc T0YAM\ Hyosaku EJBA I-ltsuru OGA”二 Iiしaku all ncnters of cr attuclied to tlie i:en^etai 0 ム11 accused ；;ere cliar^cd v/ith couLilttinし a vzar crine in that they v;erc concerned in the ill troatnent cf civilian residents cf tl:e v i l l u s of yEDVINGOI了 and l^UNGLOIT. rRQSLcroior： The prosecution case consisted cf evidence cf nine witnesses .frcn the village of YED T TFG0F T/hc alleged that they Lad been arrested by the K*ci^petai and incarccratocl in J r culnein jail for a period of apprc::i- Inately 19 days, They alleged torture by rater tcrture, electric tcrture and fe^atir^s during interrogations e All accused Trere identified by several of the v/itnosses as having been pre cent either at the tino of the arrest cr in tiie jail during the intorro£ ;at iens ̂ / The accused Cpl# BAEA I._ltsuru tenderod plea of し"uilt》、； ム11 the other accused ploadcd not ^uilty # DUFRJCZ： Tlic general dcfcnco \vas a denial of any ill-treatLient • The acusd Cole JSUL and C^.t。 T nGSKI denied that they hc.d any knc,::lc‘dしe cf the arrest or ill-treatraent of any cf the witnesses, T'iiG accused K0BAY“Sni, SHIOT“ and T O Yム v h i l e adLiittii presence at the -cine of the arrect f clainod that they hud never been in Ipulnln jail durinし the period uhen the uitnesses had been imprisoned B Op丄。 Ĉ -I' t * 2/Lt。 2/1^ j, ajt, Cplc S/?te 0 pv-ideiitiary pocuiixnt 533^® 10. The accuscd CGuil.̂ Liaintained that he uas only c. driver and had nothing to do T:ith the interrelations or ill-trout:j.er:t nor did he act at any time as a juard。 All accused clocted tc 0 ivc evidence. in evidence accused IL'JC^Y^E adijittod that he iio.d ordered use cf The defence also called us ritness St. l^j, F I H : T:hc stated that R'JD'XJ'1., :•-•〇• lEIiGCnOKI and hiuself had been res^onaible fcr tho ill-treatL-ont of scue cf tho uitnesses flt the prcsecuticn. The clef once しlsc prcduced ar. adi:.issicn by *:.0. IDLGOKOBI of tlie ill-treatment• (Fote； ；；.0 # ZDHGOrOIil one cf the accused on the ori^incil cliごrしe sheet しnd the cliぃrじし v/as v/itlidrav/n us he was unfit to stcaid trial cv/inし to illness。） N a n_e. Ccl # HCT“ Fado Capt. HIO:J3HI No bur o 2/Lt. I 、 m ェGaku S加 j . r O B ^ Y H ^ i r a S^t. I.IiU-mし T。kycslii TOY.Jil R/osaku Cpl<» ZAK‘ Mitsuru SLt^ SHIOT “ ToshiLiro s/rtc. 〇G—:: Mi^olcu F.HDII"CS d D S-ITTLTCiX . F i n d i n g , Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilt^ Guilty Guilty Guilty Fot Guilty Rot (Jiiilty S e n t e n c e , 8 years inprisennent• 8 years iLipriscniiient • 8 years ii:'iprisc.nrjont • 6 years inpriscniaent« 3 years ii;.priscm::ent 0 6 years ii-Xjr i g 〇nニ iし nt, 1 iionth 's i:."-priscni.iGnt • (I^ctoj The accused s/l.^j c i:0EiX.SIH “kira uas also c.ne cf the accused, found guilty, in the ICJLAJON case.) The findings and sentences have net yet been confirued. NOTL ON F/ID-QICL: This case is of interest bccause it uas the first one in which an accused Lad adiiitted in the v/itness box thot the irer^petai did cn cccasior： use force tc extract iiifonx^ticiie torture. The accused 仏 confessed to lu:vii‘し used the water torture LBjur FTTUD“ v:ho v;as called as witness adi-iitted use cf electric Lvidentiary Document ガ 533 1 1 Ca-t e lilCIuSHI wiio r/as one of the accused in the HiJ^GON case ^ a at that tiLie 丄 e d that 1'crco was ever uned by the iccripetai now adioitted that oil occasion it r“iしht be used. _ he was soLie\7hut as to what he iieaiit by use of force during interi'o^ations, in this case tortures usod v;ere• (1) r ;atcr torture。 (2) Electric torture• (3) iioja^in^ a person frcn a bea:u v/ith his hands tied behind his back, v/hile in tliis position the nan i;culd either be beaten cr ^iven electric tarture« It would appear frcn this case that the use of force by the I'erpotai to ootain informtion was a coixiしn cccurroncc^ 5- U、 T G00I了 CEF7R,Ju J.vIL C.^SL (T.Zma and ethers), The； accused: G^ t o 1st Lto Sutol^jo s/rt©o nenibers of the TAZUICT 1'ptozo. ONISHI ：よio UEN3 Kiycshi IEN0 iroi^etsu. ir:vorial Japanese Cii^GES: All accused v/ere charged with coixiittin^ a war criinc in that tliey \;oro concerned as parties to il]trcatimt resulting in the death of 17 naned prisoners of war and physical suffering to other prisoners cf irar 鲁 THOSSCUTION: Tlie prosecution case consisted of a very lar^c nunb。r of j affidavits by f o m e r prisonしrs of war and v/as to tlie cffect that the I Airmen prisoners of \?ar v/cre treated differently from the other pOT.'s 1 and v;ere incarcerated for a Ionム period in so] itciry confinencnt where ；they received insufficiont rat2011s and practically no ndical attention ‘whatsoever and that beaxii\.,s by tl.e guards vere a frequent occurrence. i Tlie accused s/pte UETO v;as identified by his nicknaoe ^lin^y 9 as a notorious becter. It v/as ci丄丄eしed that in the case of Lt • DRUIMCY he was deprived cf the caro of a companion becauno the nedical officer ONISHI stated that he v;ould die in any case and this prisoner v/as left to die quite unattended• lyidontiary Dc-cuiicnt ^ 533^ • 1 2 , rrosecution also cdj.lv.cl as a witness l-r a FULI^RTON v/hc had been a prisoner in the Hc-'iî con Cしnt“0l jail fron 19^2 to the terrdnation of the hostilities。 H。 bas testified that conditions as regards the ふir n e n vcre v/orsc than as regard, ordinary ro'.'s. Ho identifiod all the accused• It v;as stated in several cf the affidavits that the accused j T^ZUId v:as a better prison corxiandcjit than any cf his predecessors.J defunce: Tho accused v;itii the exception of s/l^e TJEFO, elected to しive evidence but subsequently Lto CIUSIH し！！ tho advice of the dofending officer dccl**.ncd tc し.ive evidence e The defencc consisted cf a denial of the allegations of ill- troatnent• The accused TユUI2 claimed that he had done v/hat he could to inprove conditions。 On behalf of accused ONISHIt it vas clained that he vas very badly trained and had little experience of iaedioal natters and in addition to his work at the jail he had duties in connection with transit car^p and that ho yjus exceedingly shc-rt of radical supplies» Accused s^t« j« UUTO denied the allegation against hii-i cf ill-troathient althou^li he adriitted having on occasions slapped the pOWs. K a n e , 1 FINDINGS 邏 SEKTEKCE5, I；1 i ii d i n し Capt # TuJZTJI'l.？'ptczo Lt. ONISHI J M o SLt.lBj # TJDTO Fiycshi s/rte, UENO Kci^etsu Guilty of ill-treatricnt cf prisoners of war t Guilty of ill-troatnent resultin^ in 七he death of Ltc DHUM.IEY and con- tributing to the death of 10 other prisoners of r/ar« Guilty of ill-treatnentt Guilty of ill-treatont. S e n t e n c e. 7 years inrrisenraent • Death by hancinc; 3 years inprisonnent # 15 years ir̂ iprisonixient • The rindin乙s and sentences have not yet been ccnfirnad Evidentiary DocuLicnt 社 533^* 1 3 . FOTE OK EVIDENCE: This case like the 脚了 L̂ v/ Courts ijincxe and New L̂ v/ courts jail eases deals iarticularly uith the ill-treatmnt of .amen v;ho v;ere prisoners of war. rt aD^eared fron the evidence that these nen uere treated in a different fashion frcn ordinary prisoners of x;ar on inGtruc- tiens fron hiこ:h authority bccausc they were regarded as crininal suspects. The accused TAZIMI mintaincd that apart froa keepinし them se^related fron other prisoners they \:ere no \:crse off than ordinary prisoners of vjqt0 形 naintaincd that they c^t the saoe ration cf food | as ordinary non-uorkin^ prisoners and that nodical attention was not T7ith- j held fron then. in this case as in all the jail eases it appears that the しuards ! vore for the oost part a thoroughly bad type v:ho niade a practice cf I beatinj and striking the prisoners of nar on the slightest provocation. The statement by the accusud s/ptc UEFO m d e to the investigating Officer, in ansv/er to the question： n. is there any other reason for ycur beating these prisoners in cell block 5 sc frequently # in September 1944 I was told by a Ker-^ctai enlisted r‘ion f whose name i do not ronenber t that it would be all riこht to beat these prisoners, • shovs the attitude of mrid of the guards• Tliore is such a rjass of tcstî 'vrjiy in all the jail cases relating tc beatings that it seer.is iripossible 粉 cone to any ccnclusicn other than that such trcatrjent if not actively encouraged v:as at least permtted Qiid recorded as quite- n o r m l , * - C' • - * . • * • •ふ •. • . . • • . • . ' .一•一、 ‘ j ‘ 丄 • . . _ . ... I - • 1 -x レ • 6. R/J、!Q00K GQCTHユ JAIL CASE (IKID“）. • The accused• Sb"t# IPj. IKED：. Ivui'^jirc. a nenber of the imperial Japanese /jriiy. C H A R G E ： に - The accuscd v/as char^cd with- cdxaittinja T;QT vras concerned in ill-trcatncnt result in^; in the death prisoners of war. crine in that Le cf 5 Anerican iyidentiary Document ；f 5336• 1 4 . | rROSECIJTIOFt The prosecuticn case consisted cf q nuLibcr of affidavits by ！ foruer prisoners of war, which alleged that the prisoners cf war had i died through lack of medical treatment and in particular that the | persons naued in the charge sheet v;ho were brought in suffering from \ ！ severe burns when their aircraft crashed, received no medical treatr.ient. EGFENCE: The defence consisted cf a denial of the allegations. The accused elected to /^ive evidence and on oath stated that he had し:ivon such treatuont as he could to the ；auerican airraen v:iio v/ere very severely burnt and in a critical condition v:hcn they were brou^it in to the jail. He claincd to have carried out the instructiens しiven to hin by the medical officer. • * Ĵp.it defence called as witness Cpl. F0T^u T I T .;ho had been an assistant tc the accused and \7ho corroborated his story. The defence further called I.^jor SITIIdZU a Japanese nedical officcr uho じave evidence as tc v;liat nii L ht bo expcctod in the case of patients sufferir^ from burns of the nature described to the courts ! PIKDII、 T GS .J7D SEb7m:CESi The cc'urt found the accused not しuilty。 I in announcing finding tho court stated that althouGli they were satisfied that at scne sta L ,e after they crashed there had been a crininal nc^jlect in the treatiuent of those airnen, yet they v/ere quite satisfied that there v/as nothin^ in the evidence to shou that the accused could be held resi ensile in any ray for uhat had occurred. NOTE 01"LYIDIIICE: in viev; of the fact that the accused in this case was acquitted rc is undesirable to draw any definite conclusion fron the evidence f but ix does appear that the Japanese took little trouble to ensure that vrouiided or injurod prisoners of war v;ere properly treated at an early sta u c # / (Signed) i“l、 STURROOH Lieut,Cclone1 b.a. jTcsident f 4 ;;ar Crines Court, Rangoon, M““，LL.B, (Edin.), ，クiter to the • Evidentiary Document No. FORI.： O F S T i J E M E K T I j S u m m a r y of e x a m i n a t i o n of H s i m g hu G y i O c c u p a t i c n C o o l i e ! A d d r e s s : K y o n l a h a V i l l a g e . ； M a u n g B u G y i , d u l y a f f i r m e d , s t a t e s : エ am 20 y e a r s of a g e , of Eurrr.ese nationality and born at Kyonlaha•"ViM3r permanent hone is I at Kyonlaha Village. I am at present living at Kyonleha Village. i j On the day before the Japanese from Henzada Kempei Tai came to Kyonlaha Village to recruit coolies I was at the river front. I : s a w that one B u r m e s e w o m a n Ka T h e i n Shin and four or five I n d i a n s ；had been arrested by a party which had come from HENZADA• i j エ c a n speak some J a p a n e s e and w a s m a d e to i n t e r p r e t for the J a p s , i They asked the woman if she had stolen a mosquito n e t . The woman ! defined i t . The woman was beaten all over her body with the "butt of a rifle. 1 She still denied the theft. Her hands were tied behind her back, and one of the sleeves of her jacket was torn off with a bayonet. ！ Then she was stripped naked• i . When the woman had been beaten with the butt of the rifle her j n e p h e w llg. T i n N y u n t w ? s a l s o arrested b e c a u s e h e had b e e n found with a Japanese bock in his pocket• i |he nephew, who was sixteen, was beaten, his hands were tied behind his back and he was stripped, too® i Both of them "begged of me to plead for them and I did so. The Jap Officer would not listen to me and he ordered both of them to j be tied to a railway carriage and made to stay in the sun. I came i back. Cn the next morning エ went to the river side end found blood [ s t a i n s . I w a s told b y one of the I n d i a n s a r r e s t e d thet the w o m a n j and the b o y had b e e n d e c a p i t a t e d • The I n d i a n said he w a s ra<3e to | throw both bodies into the river I heard that two headless bodies were recovered from the river.J ~ * * 争 ‘ « » - • — . . 一 " " " “ — — — • 一 一 s/s/ B u G y i in B u r m e s e cliaractc Interpreter» I certify that I duly translated, the rbove suMaary to the witness in his own language prior to his signature which appears above• Affirmed before me d'Astugues A.K. Signature, Hank, Captain. Descriptions エnvestip&tor 17 War Crimes Investigation Team. An officer detailed to examine the above by the CommEnder-in-Chief Allied Lend Forces, South East Asia. ( A u t h o r i t y s A L F S E A C r i m e s I n s t r u c t i o n K o . 1 pera 7) • IT IS C E F L T I J ' I E D that the above statement is the true copy of the Original Statement nade by I•、：G BU GYI,Coolie, KiONLANA VILLAGE / s / T . S . F . B M E T T L t - C o l 0 . C . 1 7 War Crimes Investigatic Team. wliere trj The Mg。Mg, Mya ordered the old man to take hiir. to the Jap was butied e He returned wioh the cap of the dead two prisoners were tied ana guarded e Two women had also been arrested c Tlicy were kept in the hut where Plarada and the officer were ̂ That hut was about five huts from the headman ! s hoase c Several houses were sot on fi.:!,?: by the Japs» The fire at Nga Mycuk 1 s house spreed to ebcd'c 10 liou^es Evidentiary Document N o . 5346• F0F..11 OF STATEMENT ノ 斤 Summary of Exaninstion of Maurg Tim Shwe Police Constable Address? Henzaaa Police Station。 Maung Tun Shwe ? duly affirmed, states I am 31 years of a g e o f Biirirssc nationality and "born at Hensada. My permanent home is at Men^ada» I am at present living at Henzada 0 In April or Me.y Japanese Kempei Tai Off-icer (three lines and； two stats) Kars.d^. 5 ^viiooe phorograr-h I r-soognise those shoxvn to me, and M g , Mg M72 wLoso Japanese name I do noi kaow cane to Menzada P ,-S ̂ tlicy ordered myse“,ご Sd Hi a M g , P .C s San Kg» Chitcce, Aye Mg.., M g , Ksn to acconpr.n.y them, j Harada and M g , M^» I-.ya were in Earmese dress ̂ There were about 40 Jap soldiers, but ェ（2on?t know who was in charge 0 We went to Inbin t>3, train and after two days' stay left エnbin at 7 p e .m. to go to Nga Eat Kya village, Wo errived at the village at 4 a 0 m , The Japanese soldiers stn'roun-ded the village and some men led by Harada and Mg Mg Mya went; into the village and arrested the headman 1 s father who was about 60 years of age. A Chin was also arrested. The old man v/as tied to a bench in front of his h o u s e。人 piece of cloth was placed over his faco ars.d water was pourod on the cloth. Then he was tied to a post and his feet were burned with a burning firewood, M g . Mg questioned him about ':he death of a Japanese soldier? j He replied that the soldier was killed by some people in his house« Ho had tried to stop the murder. The Chin, Nga I'lyauk, was Questioned and tortured in the same way as the old man. Ho that he did not kill the Jap and that he had tried to stop てhe killing ? but he arrived on the scene too late. The killing was done "by his two brother s~in-lav/. spot Jap > Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2 . At about 6 pcm。 we left the village for Myin Ws Tcimg, We stopped at a village on the way, ba!; could not find the headman. The next morning Harada, Mg Mg I^a 7 or 8 Jsps and myself left for S inky one vil.lagG to inves bigete the whereabout of another Jap who was missing. An old man tcld us the/.匕 he had guided the Jap as far as the hi].ls s Ihs Jeps boIie"ed h i m and v/e turned to Myin wa Taung» The nexfc night we left for Inbin and arrived at 5 a.m. We stayed at one Phogyi kvaung with the Officcr, Harade. ? Mg Mg Mya and some Jap soldiers。 The rest of the Jap soldiers went to another p h o n g y i kyaung taking た.:he two prr'.soners w i t h t.b.em. i\ The next morning we joined then at the other phogyi-kyaung« “し • . T At about 4- p « m . the two prisoners hsd their hr.nc3s tied behind their backs and were taken to a x;rGnch in てhe paddy field opposite the phongyi kyaung e The police cv.g the trenen, The old man was made to squat on the edge on the trench and Mg I.lg Mya at off his head« The Chin was executed in the same way» Vfnen the bodies fell into the trench they were bayoneted 'by the Jap soldiers» Harada end the Officcr were in the Phongyi kyaung at the time of the execution. ,—•»....•‘一*•» — That night we set out foi Myp.naung» When we err ive d at I Gyaiangbyut taw the Japs tried .co encor a phongyi kyaung 0 They f were looking for guerillas« The doors were locked 0 They banged on the door, mcde a lot of noise, when they got inside they started to search。 As they were searching some J&ps who had been left outside brought in a man whom they had found near tlic phongyi kyaung, He explained that he had heard the noise and thought that it was daeoit „ He w?.s soe.rohed and a revolver was found on h i m . The Japs found an empty cartridge case in the revol- ver end then identified the revolvsr as one which had been issued t a H G - H O guard end which had been stolen from hini after he HC.D been beaten. The m&n, Ko Kyin Scin, said that he had bought the gun from a young man for 150 R s . We proceeded to Htanbone "bin where Fo Pein Hnyaw was arrested because Ko Kyin Sein alleged that he had fed members of the resistance movement 0 At the headman ? s house two other men were arrested, Then we went to Ilysnaung and put up at the bungalow. After about a week's stay two crcnches were dug near the bungalow and Ko Kyin Sein and Ko Pein Hnyaw were decapitatod by^ I believe, the Jap officcr。 One of the men arrestod at the Hesdiran 1 s house was taken away by M g , Mg and the otner returned with us when he left for ' Henzada. (Signed) Tun Shwe• Evidentiary Document Ko. 53^-6 Interpreter» I certify that エ duly translated the above summary to the witness in his own lang'aage prior to his signature which ep:'e?.rs above. /s/ HIa Nyun t, 'Interpreter. Affirmed before me d'astugucs ArH• signature：, Rsnk, Csptr.in. Descriptions Investigator, i'7 Wsr Crimes Inves'tigaTiiori Teem. An Officer detailed to examine the above by the Comraander~in-chief, Allied Land Borces, Sou _ ch East Asia» Authority: iiLFSEA Wrr Crimes Instruction No。1 psra 7 . It is certified that the s"bove statement is the true copy of the Originsl "oatement made by Mg Tun Shwe, Police Constable, Kenzsda Police Station. /s/ T. S. F. BURNETT L t - C o l . 0«C» 17 War Crincs Investigation Team Evidentiary Document No. 534-7 F0RI.1 OF STATEI^KT. Summary of examination of Meung Kin M G . occupation Student. Address; Paukpenbyu St. Henzeda. ^Hr.img Kin Jig . duly afXir®ed state s エ sm 14 yesrs of age、of Burmese 'nationality and born st Henzcda, Hy permanent home is ai; Eenz&^sti' I am at present living st I Henzada• ！ One day in May, 19^+5> I took a Japanese Army bus from neer • the Railway Station Henzada to Ongun where I was eniployed as J a Japanese interpreter. When the bus arrived at Ongun, I alighted near the geragc. At that moment, a Japanese Officer ( 1 l i n e 3 stars) by the name of YAMADA called to me to accompany him to a trench situated close to the village gur.rd post. I went with h i m e In the trench, either standing or sitting, were seven Burnisns, liielr-haiiiis^ were all tied by the same piecc of rope • The Jr.panes told me to ask the B M - m a n s why they had been arrested* The BU T I I I G replied thrt they were not guilty, but did not give me the reason for their arrest. The time was then cbout 6 p m . Sitting quite near were two whi 让 び 延 些 - One was over 6 feet tell and wes wearing a khe.ki uniform j slacks^and s tunic^j On his head was t peculiar sort of hesd gear It /ied. a flat at the back, netting over the top, a turned up pesk in front, ear flsps with straps which fsstoned under the chin. On his shoulder there wes something ejnbroidered in English oiLCXaSLtan, but I did not understand it. HG was wearlng~"BIaT!tr boots something like Jack-boots» On one of his forearms, he hed s tatoo design, but it was pertly covered by his sleeve end I do not remember what it was» He had brown hair and a beard« He had protruding teeth and protruding check bones• I could not judge his age, but he seemed to be about the age of the investiga tor (30) e Ke wr‘s carrying r. water bottle which had e. blue-black cover. He_hed had s ring which the Japanese had confiscated* The ring — VVES light yellow col O I K , it might nave ^Ueen~gold •—""Eh the front wes a three-teer gold circle end there was a monogrsm on it» —— The other man was r.bout the height of the average Eiirnsn (5' 4"). He had a pair of shorts which he csrriasd under his srn ！ and_which the Japanese took from him.i .. I saw Y A M / J D A wee.ring_ the r shnrt.s tlず He vvr.s dressed in exactly the same way as the first man except that he had nothing enbroidered on his shoulder. On his shoulder strap he had a blue stripe. HG had brown hair and a beard and seernod older then the first man« Page Z t About 15 minutes later the J.ep名nese officer with sn escort of ；! 2；? soldiers led__the 7 Biirmens end the two white men t.n O N G m J c e m e t r y , Before they were taken avvr.y these 7 Burmsn's of "whom I iknew 2). or 5 because they were ny classmates in the Japanefee languaj ！ school,csk£d_ma_as_tp_how they were to be killed, They were j frightened because the soiaiers had fixed tlie b a y o n e t s . I asked the Japanese officer wh& gave no reply. At the cemetry the Jap officer and 3 soldiers looked for trenchc | in the vicinity. They foimd one close b y , I was standing about 70 ysrds e w a y .エ〜vas asked by the Japanese to return to OKGUW but—I wanted to see» As I was an interpreter エ wa.s allowed to stay.* It is a Burmese custom to pray before being executed and I askec j YMl^DA for permission for the men to p r a y , _He allowed this. One Eurman was taken from the group and ordered to knoel cn the edge of the trench. off his head with a sword. The other Bur nans and 七 he tv/o white m e n couIS see vviiat w a s goiiig ^ n . Then the other fcon were killed one by one. I did not look I shut my eyes, put ny henas over my ears and"turned sway. Although I had my hends over my ears I could hear the blows of the sword end the Jcps saying "Oh, thet one isn't dead yet^_ bayonet hin"._ I heard cries of "Oh God" coining from the trcnch. .Next day came the execution of the two white men. They were stripped of their clothes snd were completely nnked"； They cade signs that they wanted to smoke &nd wore each given e cigarette, Then they_ were executed in the same way as the 7 Burmans. The tell m m was executed f i r s t、 E a r t h wes thr。.wn—on — tlig" bodies and then the Japanese left taking the dead men's clothing with then The next morning I wanted to go out, but I was not allowed end エ wes warned by the L t . Col. SAITO 1s driver thst I was not to tell anybody about the execution. I was not allowed out for ten days and L t . Col SAITO hims-el,f warned ne^that he would kill me if i" told. ‘I The murdered men I knew were Mg Than, sge 24 cf Henzada. 0 Mg Than, £ge 35 of Trloketaw. Yauk Tet, sge 20 of Henzada. Ohn Mg,, age 17 of H e n z a d a a n d a nephew.of Dr.w We.ing Gyi of Kenzcds. working for the Japanese of other were executions of batches of six of up to 30 people,善 I have heerd from coolies executions. Sometimes there people, sometines of batches Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. ニ Of the two white men the tell was brough in about e month 1)€fore the execution end the other one about 15 days before the execution. I thlii,k they had been brought ffon Pgntcnsw. th---’ Two months before the arrival of the first 1 of these men a nan witti "NEW ZEAL雄D" ノon his shoulders was brought i to the ONGUN Garrison. I tTilnk lie was an airman. He wore a gold coloured badge with two lions on it on his arms. HG had brown i hair and was clean shaven. I should think he was a tall man but ; エ never ssw hin standing u p , I think his back was br ok en as he： ：sat with his torse hunched forward> de was never taken to _ ‘ j hospital and never given medical attention. While he was at— i ONGUN he jleg^jLo一tlie _g_ardeiu The Japs had given him a mosquito ！ net end a ground sheet. 4 or 5 days later the men disappeared. ； I think he was taken to Rangoon. ! し - — — — — • • - .一 . • . . … 一 k I can recognise the photograph of Thenouchi who was known as E Ifeung • Signed Khin Mcung„ I,nterpieter« I certify that I duly translated the above suraiary to the witness in his owi language prior to his si-gn?.ture which appeers r.bove, , Signed, HIa Nyunt. Interpreter• Affirmed before no d'Astugues A.R. Signcture, Rank, Captcin* Description investigator 17 Wcr Crimes Investigation Team, an Officer detailed to exsmine the above b^ethe Commander-in-Chie^, Allied L?nd Forces, South East Asia. (Authority:- ALFSEA War Crimes Instruction N o . 1 para 7 ) . It is certified that the above statement is the true copy of the Original Stctemont made by Mg Kin Mg, Studen Pr.ukpanbyu St. Henzada, Signed T. S. F. B M E T T Lt-Col. 0,C» 17 Vfer Crimes Investigation Team / 刊 孓 許 Lvidcntiary Docm.icnt ff- SUi"i:iary wcaninaticn cf iii.0, Fationality； Hone address： 5 3 4 2 . 猶 M OF STiJET ̂ lT. W r;j-T, Trader» I.IIDON. 34 CjoracscTT? SAZII. T .。jr。，H3D0N. 'jitness duly ciTirncd. states：- I was arrested in the early norninし of the day before the expedition to SLU^r'U. by a TUl了 CHN v/as with hin. I was questioned rjid tortured all that day _by _s:,t • TiJSIRO Ncritiaru • Tlie only reason I can qxvo for tsy arrest is that I cone fron Sli'̂ lYlTiL Village and I would be able to recognise the mr： the japs wanted. liie next uorniiiじ I acconpEinicd. tho party conoondcd by s.jt. i.p j • Ti'JITOO Norihciru, Ti'JM ZIK C7IC0N was also uitli this party. TJe went by the short cut ovor the hilLs; WG had only しone about a niile out of MJDON wiaen vc net about 200 villai_:ors brin^in^ vegetables to lOJDOK. Sjt, TVJ.UTiO Noriuaru stopped these people and m d c theu sit dcunj I was tcld • uo round, and see if tho follov/in£j people T?erc cuuonc then - LUK SHEIN, 1-TGA irj, SAN LET, PA IE, iJI BAV：, .J lu'JI, THE IIEADI^N OF SHiilTT二, wife of the Hoaclixin, wife of 证 MV7, TUN !.2f“It了U TH'.I KIN (ny father), and a'J! EL: GYニ'： (riy brother). Out of theso people only JU EV®’ AI K.JI, j iJJ a:T. r and. LON SFIEIK were not there. Tho rest beiw present. I pre- tended not to recognise any of then, but roi-i KAIMG on hearizfhis nai_e called, stood up, Su"t« TATTOO Foriharu questioned and beat hin until he nOi-iitted YIN SHEIT was at his house. t^T EIN CH00K on seeiDG R̂ y father ancl. brother asked LC in front of TiJ'IJEOi "isn't that ycur father and brother over there?.、 T:J.HR0 heard this and so I had to “diuit it was thcui all three were arrested and tied up. YDJ SHEHI was arrested at TU1J I^DTG'Q house in MMIAUI： village. ；Then v;e arrived at Sli'iITTiVA we were tcien to the Headnis house. u OHN ar.d U SEIN P0» HLA ?E and 0H7 ICIABTG were already there, x saw u OIIN IE boin^ beaten by Su"t. j« T/J_.-IDR0 Noriharu, aft or this he told SG^s. N01IOTO irinji, and l U J ^ H seicliu tc tako u OlfT I'E and u SEDT P0 out and し‘ive jtlien the water troatucnt5 when they cane back 1 noticed their "clothes wore 1 There wns no rurtlier questionir-ij or torture after tills. I heard set. ！ト只-i• T-rTTTJ；.r,ATjTacLiro say to TiU.HRO Norilaaru and TAN ICIK CH00N I "''e "ill kill then all*, m YAI.I was then brought in and qraestioned, ！ Stt. i-nj. KDTAG丄エ nachiro said »r; e will kill liiu also", j Eijit of us were taken fron the house and lined up betv;ecn a 1 ineuiGoe tree and the ^ate, v:e were told to sit dov:n. JMGA YiJi, rO TO, j 0I3N ITAING and IDL； ?E were told to stand up, I heard Maj, IvDI.fc.dlI ！ H^chiro say "Briiy: four soldiers w. 1 an not very clcar as to what happened next as 1 was expectluc to be killed and 1 was praying with ry head bent and ry eyes closcd. I heard a vclley of rifle shots followed closcly afterwards by one rifle shot and one pistel shot. set. I.51 j• EUI.̂ O.̂ 1 IJachiro car.® over to ne cind. said 書"you will be killed at M D C N with YIN SHEIF". I ras then placed under the cuord of p,C. SAI.T MY•ム and r Evidentiary Docuraont せ.5342. 2. IiL: I E .エ saw ny father (U TIIA. KB!) shot by S^t. N01DT0 rinji, nv brother (a/J>J IIL, GY二：) shot by 及寸り ICafl^J^ Seichu and U TUN 3WAIKG : shot by s/Pte FUJIエ Hanji & they wore ail shoi; rith pistols $ oxice .standing up and a^ain after they had fallen, j Tlie Hcadrxin's house tos then set oil fire, and as R.A.F. planes were above we l^ovod out back to MIDON. I v/as kept in the KT lock-up until the next norninc, v;hon I v/as novod to the civil police station and released eit_;ht days aftcrvrards at the surrender. (Signed.) i/X} PIN jnterr.reter, I certify that I duly translated the above surxiary to the vjitness in his ov:n lancua^c prior tc his signature which appears above f (Siし；r-edl) &Li7 SJ:ITU. ムffirued Tjeforu HID J.CCEO E'JRDIICHT (signature)，captain, an officer of the r?oynl Berkshire Re^ineirb» Dated shis 28th day of July 1̂ .6, Detailed to exonine the above by the C-m-C, •'.T.̂ SÊ . (AUTHORITYj /iLFSEl 'Tor CrlLies r^-struction 肌 . 1 para.. 7.) im. I hereby certify thc.t this is a true copy of the sworn statenent nade by m IVJN T , Trader, IJIDOII, before captain j.c.B. BURDETIIIT，Royal Berkshiro n^jiiucut, on the 28th day of July 1946. Tele', central 174. JHL/l;l:3G. (Signed) JJI. LAiBERT, I,F-jcr. Of ft； • O.C,17 V̂ -r Crines invosti^ation Tean, (I'ajor J.H. LJ.SERT 1,BE) 1孓仙FT lyiclentiary Docui...cnt jl 5340. FORI: OF S T ^ T S E T . Suo'^ry of cxarinaticn. of BO GYI GYuJ.\ son of Bi. GY..17. 0ccupation： student• address： TAU1TGTHUG03M„ INSEBT. a : BO GYI H duly sv/orn/affinxd, statesj- I an 22 years cf a^e, of jrareii nationality, and born at TIliJffiA/̂ JDDY, IF periianont hone is at B1SEBT* I at present living at IFSEDT. I vas living: in the naron quarter just outside the a.B.I.I, ccr^>ound THAHTLi•ニiDDY. The hcuse in v/hich I v;as livig overlooked this conpound 9 one day, in the early or Liiddle part cf iny f just as it was じrowing dark about ^ or (> I p , I heard sorjc shots fired fron v/ithin the coLipoundo on. hoarinc this, I went to an upstairs window where I saw seven persons in the qustcdy of about six Japanese v/lio v;ere wearing raincoats, The prisoners v/ere bein£j blindfolded with strips torn fron a blanket• I could not recognise any of the prisoners as tliey v/ere about 150 yards away c Tte first prisoner ェ bein^ executed by a trench was shot at r;itli a pistol at closc ranしで• sevorGl shots bein^ fired• Tv/o norc prisoners were brought by the trcnch and they were shot at by sooa japs v;ho were under a bi乙 tree, these japs rested their rifles on tho tree rocts and fired at the p r i s o n e r T h i s v/as repeated with the reuainir^ prisoners. ^ t c r the execution was over tlie japs returned to their quarters in the conpcundJ These japs v;oro i^enpei T^i personnel and were the last Japanese troops in I do not knov; any of their nanes except one, whose n a ^ v/as s/pte a J T O , but he did not belong to the 1:015：ei ^a± m ェ do not ki|icv: the unit fron \ihich he Tiie mjority of the civilians, includiii^iyself f left TILJ?^- ;.VJ)DY after this incident c rfhon I cane tack to TII/J®i;:7JDDY, I rxt sono people T7ho \iero exhunin u tho bodies； u T H ^ s wife identified her husband«s body, and he uas cirei-iatcd just near the trench. There was also another trench nearby 'Jiicli containod tho body cf u pe HL^ l, r HT« I saw his body, and the head v/as smashed and the skull appeared tc be broken • (Signed) si,\： BO GYI GYA：；. Evidentiary Docunent jj. 5340* 2 . interpreter I certify that I duly translated the above stuxiary to the witness in his octl lan^uace prior to his si^jnaturo which appears above» ( S i c n e d ) ELA NYTJKT interpreter. Sv7crn/affirr£d before vo 'H0 ILJMJT (signature); Hank： captain. Description； invest i じat o r , 1 7 iTar Criucs invest i^ation Tcau at FL^IGOOF on tho 31st day of ipy 1946. iji officer detailed to exaranc tho above by the Coixiander-in-chief, Allied L^nd Forccs, south Bast Asia. (Authority；-ゾjj?SE/‘ ivar crincs instruction N o . 1 , p a r a , 7,) I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the s ^ o m stuteiieiit nade by S^i； BO GYI GYぶ.-，Student, TムUNGTHUG®!, DJSEIN, before Captain H . I-LJUUT, investigator,17 ’,:!しr Cric.es investigation Tcau on 31st isiy 1946. I.iE/- Telj central 174. ( S i g n e d ) J . S » F . BOHLIETT. L t . C o l . 0 * C . 1 7 Critics i n v e s t i c a t i o n T & a n . ( L t . C o l . J . S . F . A . F . BURMETT, DSO, I E ) Evidentiary Docuiaent ^ 5339. ‘ j I, Robert igidroyir TTicol, a^cd 42, メA,1。-Burmn,lii Xnspectcr in the revenue DQuartuent ol the juiiicipal Corporしti。n cf T?aiL,.:ooru resident ax 81,sandwith RoadJ" nan^ooni ocln^duly sworn states as fcllov;s：- irior to the occupation of 只an̂ joon by the Japanese forces,エ：;as permi:ently resident at Hancoon but uith the a x ,prcuchin^ advent cf the Japanese!エ evacuated frcn Rangoon in 20th Fobrutory 1941皿d I reminod at ：yuun^iya till 2^th ： ^ 1945 • On v;edrxOsday, 7th cither February or ：.arch 45,エ can書*fc rciaenber nhich, at about 1000 lirs. a lorry stopped in front cf ny he use in ;Y“UFffl-Y“, and Ex̂ HL^ING, a ycur^Euruan acconpanicd by a jap soldier (three； stars) 5 cai.:e to ry house and enquired if I could speak English and Burnese fluently。 エ tcld theiu I cculd f エ uas ashed tc accompany then, I ；/as taken in the lorry to the I?3I:SGI?“Tt了 reserve forest, and v/iicn i arrived there,I satri one youn^ しeant with a tireless Operator bad^c, together with tvo sentriea with rifles and Daycnets and. a jap solaier v;ith a sv:ord (one J.ine and three stars f. The serしcしirt mus seated with both hands tied beliin<a his back.ムbcirt one hundred yards av;ay I saw three other airmen standing guarded by apprcxlmtcly 25 jap soldiers. Tho senior officer oxjon^st this party seeued to be a rxin about ^ ft 9 2 ins to 5 ft a 3 i^s. weariiん a wliito shirt, ridii\j breeches and brown jack beets.エ thcucht that he vius the senior Officer as he uas the only rjan present r;oarii\,a cvord and revolver. ；{e uas approxinately 22 years of a£;o and rather fair for a jjaponese. I \XiS taken by the ja^. soldier (one line throe stars), BA HIDING and the driver, tc vaacre the sergeant was sorted. The ja;.. soldier (one lino throe stars} spokb to HL^ITG in japLjiesc and HIDING trtaislated back to ug in Burncse and I uas told to interpret for hin in ICi^lish to the iiiruar“ i^Dsi of the questions t;ero about the different r/avelen^ths the t^j used tc corxiunicate v;ith their base^ Tlio youn^ Serjeant would only say thal| the diしIs ；;ere fixed before leavig the ba-se. ^hilo a‘ HIDING v;as trrinslatir^. back to the Japanese soldier,エ mna/jed to^ c et the airi.xm^s Inane # no told l:g that his none v;as STiJ： rOODBJJIDGL and thct Le cauo fron Cim•了GFOED, LSSIX, UTOL"-!®. "ton the airnan TOuld not disclose any of tho infornation ‘ required^ bl IDti^G- took off! his belt ana struck hin acve-rQl tin^s across the back with the buckle enal cf 十ぷ吁 Hien the jap soldftr (one 丄ine. three stars) struck r :00DERID^E on the hc^d with the flat of his sv/ord several tines, then the questions 77Gre repeated but ";?0DHRIDGE refused to し,ive arxy different answers• ^hia questioning l. stod for しbcut an hcur # ゾhen the questicniii{] finished, '.J00DBRIDGE was taken by the four jaj;Lcnese and H L J U G •qĉ arcTs 卞小广 ^ h f ^ jrハ 1 て、rm^h ¥nn nng l&ndred yards awayy Then tl ie jarty, includiii^ the fcur airnen and BA HLAIFG w^nt exjay into the lforeet # “s tliey ；vere ：-icvin̂ ; off I asked the driver by siしtis if they v:ore rcin^ tc shoot the airnen and he indicated ividentiary Dceun'nt ff. [5339 • 2 . j tliat they v;ere ,. toj be beheaded, I then went back to the lorry and ' f c r ^ b o u t half an hour, until the japs returned. One cf ras carrying a tick-axe f another a shovel and ethers carrying j t、丨A mr^fents clcthe^^ The uniroms vero rolled up intc a tnindle which j t/as carried by one m n , land, sc I ccuid net see hov; m n y thej;e were. I^id see ̂ f our pairs of I slices carricd by other jap soldiers J Bu. ZLJNG v/as wixh tncu.~tiic wnclo party t including ryself and Bi'i irL^H T G v/ith thei.^ The whole pcirty, including Lysclf cjid B^ KLAITG, clinbcd iニtc the lorry and v;e wetrc driven back to the tc\;n where I ^ot off at the crossrcads. (SIEVED) E . A . I1C0L. Date： Suorn before oe this ^ y of July 1946. (Signed) ？ jtli Additional Ijô istr'ニte, HanGccn。 Evidentiary Dccui.ient' M 5348 A . STiJTSmT OF RITICZSS. Kane； Occupation： Address： IL Than 凡 Clerk• Bharnc • been duly sv;orn states； I an 29 years of a^e, of purnese nationality, born at Shane. I-y perxxment hone is at uaun^kho • • 参 soLietine in the niねdie cf “u^ust '44 at S B I K i ' J t l i e j with YOSIimiA s/l.51 Jo 瓜 G ^ T “ Cpl•曾 THAT PE f I.UFG III and say one Birnese EA KHB了 killed by YOSHUCA,:人 and K/iQ/xTA, On the said ^ l a t SIM.:J.、THAN rE, and KO YTĴ T (Later now dead killed by Kachins) b r。 _ t in BA KHIF to Y O S H E Z A H KHBT was questione by YOSI-IIK/UTA re^ardinc British troops and EA KHD了 denied any knowledge of then, BA KHIN T;as beaten whilst boinc questioned by YOSHIKA 1二‘, and was later taken outside the village. Here, YOSHH^m じ a v e EA EHIN liis last chance to toll tlx- truth, "you v;ill be released if you tell the truth, ctherv;ise you v;ill be killed". ^ IffilN still denied kncwlcdge； of British troops, Th^n ycsHH^J. r A ordered BA I1IIN to be tied to a nearby tree, and tcld ZL KHD，tc say his prayers, ijfter Bi. HIIN had finished YOSHIKA77ム ordered F丄G/J?厶 to kill BL EIIK irith his sword. Ni.CL.T^ thrust the sword at EA inilN's neck but it did not penetrate, and YCSHECATム flying into a fury took the sword fron NAGATA and. fiercely attacked Eu EIHN with the sword all over his bcdy f killing the D Q I I. He, (YOSIIIIOn) told all of us present that this is an exai^le ^f the treatment anyone will receive for soin^ acainst the Japanese» ^ The followinc v/ere at the site s ! • M I U . 2 . THAN I S . S / ^ “ I K . T U T LILUNG. 5 - iyself and the k.t. YOSIIIIUUTA and M巡T:•“ I can identify the japs。 (Signed) m Ti蘭 I.遍G. SV7。m before no Il'DDOXi Lt .Col. I、〜l6 i:ar Crii^os investigation T ©如， at K h d V on the 7th day cf iny 1 % 6 . Detailed to exaivine the above by the C e r a : 腿 d e r - , Allied Land Force Sou,t gist Asia. (Authority： ALFigE" r 'ar Crines instruction para 7 . ) I recognise the photograph cf scto Lpj. Y0STT3K/丄•ム SADムェC T :nO which ェ have been shov/n as the m n referred to above as YOSKHu.lTA^ エ certify tliat the above is a true copy cf a statenent taken in the course cf 7.*ar crines investi{jations 9 tlie criminal cf v;hicli is nov/ in the custody of l6 rar crines investicaticn T©如• D^ted the 3rd July 1946. (Sijied) B ^ T .脈 r H H E Y S . Capt. HA. invest ic^tor,l6 \7ar Crincs invest icat ion Toan. Evidentiary Docunent ガ S348 B_ / ^ m STAT^jECT OF riTNESS. Nar^e： Occupation： Addressj I‘.し Than l.jiune. rrevicus clerk (now unemployed) Bhano. Been duly sr/cm states： エ am 29 years of a{je f of Eurmese nationality, born at permanent hoine is at i"auii^kho and エ am at present living at Haunfeho• During June 1944 f when I was working for the Burr^a police ̂ at Bhano, after the rains had commenced in North Eursi,ェ orders by ny chief to accompany jbLe r.T, YOSI-IEU as an interpreter on his tours. そ The sar^e eveninc YOSHIKATjV, another jap •( (nane not knovm), BL TYI and Liyself left Ehano by truck for the l?th s^c on the Ehaiao/ lyitkyina jy)ad f arriving there after dark about 2200 hours. '::e slept there that ni^ht uith a jap unit whose Coninander had requested the r.T # to report to hin for duty, . . — • •• — • m Early the next oornin“ we left in the direction of H J H I , with 15 other jap troops. Y O S E I d suspected the i:achir.s in and around HJil of helping the British or ふJLlied Troops in the area.ト.Then we arrived ut HJI£ Kil, YOSIIII-Jir；. arrested 8 Kachins (males), and after a short stay we all tmde our vay back towards the 17th tiilo. (ifcese Kachins (nane not knom vtre irachins who were previariî e to visit the flats on a purchasing trip, when they were arrested.) /^ter walking two miles, a halt was called (for a rest) and YOSIIK/JTA set the irachins together and conrjenced questioning the^i regardin£j iJJ-ied troops in the vicinity and accusig then of purchasinし food for tlieu, as "these lochias, T_’hen searched, were found in the possession of silver r u p e e s .ぬ e n the interrogation was bein^carried out, an_aircraft (ijerican) passed over- head, and YOSKIE^Fム took the chance to further accuse tiii"8 Irachins of bei_xit, spies, ne then ^ave the order to the 15 jap soldiers to bayonet the Kachins. "pr/c of the irachins coxae forward and confessed about the Chinese troops in the vicinity, and they were not killed, (the six others vrere killed there； j was present on the spot)•ふ proceeded on our journey and arrived at the 17th nile after dark» having the two Each ins with us. These tr:o rachins v.-ere tied, up to trees for the ni^ht and oade their escapeIfefore dawn, (Signed) TfLJl IkUNG. Statooent jven in r e l i s h . Evidentiary Docur_ent f 5348 c» 2. S^orn before ue B .T . HOirHRIYS, Capt. 16 _ ;ar crirjos mvestiGation Tear:, at 5haix> on tho 22nd. day of iny 1ヲ厶6 Detailed to exai.iine the above by the Corxiander-iia-Chief, ..Hied L^ni Forces, south, i^ist ^sia, authority： .^LFSHi Criue instruction H o . 1’ para. 7. I recot^nise tlie photograph of sfe. Ifij. YOSI:II二:二 S^:-ェCniBO xrLich I have been shown as the m n referred to above as YOSHHi.ユ. I certify that the abeve is a true copy of a stateuent taken in the course of -:ar Crines investigations, tlie original of rhich is nor; in tho custody of 16 マar crimes investigation Teen. Dated the 3rd July 1946. (siyied) b . T. HDininEIS. Oapt. E•二. investigator,l6 rar Crioss investigation Teaa. ノ m ナ lyidentiary Docunent ji 535k* - — * FORI: OF STATLI.aiT OF L PERSON SUSTECTTD OF BEING COITCETJTD IN TIE COUISSION OF A UJi CI^HX.- I, captain B.T. HUHTKREyS of l6 ••ar Crines mvestiRation Team certify that ェ have nou duly uarned I^J. YOSHH^x'；^ sadaichiro in the follovin^; terns：- "Do you v/ish to rjake any statement or to しive evidence on oath? you are net obliged to say anything, or ^ive evidence unless you rish to do so, but uhatever you say or . any cvidencc you £ive uill be taken dcv:n in "writing and m y be Civen in evidences « The said set. Y O S I i m ^ sadaicliirc states that lie v;islies to make an unsworn statejant. (Su^O E.T. I-IUirimEYS, capt 4 B•ム• (capti B.T. HUl.!Tl5?ryS* Ri'i) The 22nd day cf Jtine 1946# ursrortF s m u : I, set • I'Bj, YOSIIITiX"“ sadaichiro of the Kenpeitai have been duly vrarned that I an not obliged to a statement ,b*t that whatever , I say will be taken dovm and m y be used in evidence, wish to state voluntarily as follows：- , in s^ptenter 1944 I ras stationed in the icenpei Tai at EHAID, and it vas during that nonth that エ received orders from ノ ；ICUMEQ1TA inesuke to じo to the l^th or 17th lile north frcn Bhaoo. | I 丨 had to report to the Hi'Ĵ x BUTAI ivlic had a canp there. I went "Were accoDpanied by s^t. OffiTA T^otsu of the Eenpeitai, ad ェ was given a party cf soldiers fron the Butai under cormand of a ICiiTO： I think that he had four nen with hin. I vent fron the 15th or l?th M e up the hill to BUIIHRAI accoipanied by this party and I think that there v:ere also tvo or three policenen, I ordered the arrest of ei^ht people when we reached BDIERiil. ”:e kneu that there vere sone spies in the area and had information that these ei^ht people uere involved in the activities of the spies. Scne of these eifet people were i:aclxins and sone were Clxi^ese, They r;ere suspected of having cone over the Border fron clii^a. * e took these people out of the village and on the way down the hill to the mill road ue stopped to question then # The interro- gation ccnfirned that they v;ere spies,エ carried out the interiosa^ tioiu I then turned then over to S l^* Si^TO of the ncora 3utai and L'^vc hin a verbal report of ziy findings. SIJIO ordered about five or six of then to be killed and they were killed there. The others ran auay later after \ie had reached the caiup # lyidentiary Docuin<jnt ガ 535k-• 2. OCd^L T/ent all the vay yitla us and I think that he ray have interrogted one of the prisoners f but lie took no other part in the affairs• There v;as a Japanese defence post at HJM3RAI. I think that the reason for the people bein^; killed was in order to prevent infornation leaking cut about the Japanese defences. The above statcncnt has been read over to ne by an interpreter and is a true account of uhat I have stated and エ now voluntarily append niy signature thereto (YOSHULilTA Sadaichiro). Signed at narx^oon on the 22nd day cf June 1946. iM character, i m j m M ^ M j m m m m ^ I, Tokeslii u.'ムエ at present In H^'oofi Gac| solezt^ ant l i M N M S ^ declare that I truly and correctly translated to l.-fiĵ YOSHEQiTJA Sadaichiro the words of the above caution and that he thereupon electee； to oaka an unsworn statement and that he then, m d e an unsworn staterBiit uhich I truly and corrcctly translated into En^ish and saw down by c^pt« Hunphreys Ri x ; I read over the whole of the above staterjent to the said SGt. Y O S E i m : Sadaichiro in the Japanese laiiga^e and he acknowledged it as correct and has now duly signed it in Liy presence and in the presence of the said capt • Hunphreys. I certify that no inducement, threat or promise was held out to the said, sc.t • ifi j • YOSIIUO'^A sadaickirb abd that he Dade the above s tat emeu i entirely voluntarily. (Siしned ) TAKESHI m i • “ffirued before ne E.T. liUiriiREYS Captain Pui cf l6 uar Crines investigation Tean at Han^ocn Gael on tlie 22nd day of June An officer detailed to exanine the above by the c-in-c ALFSEA. Authority* iJLFSEix T '.*ar Crines instruotion no.1(socond Biitioii) para. 19(a), I ccrtify that the above is a true copy cf a statenent taken in the course of YJox Criiies investigations, the original cf Tirliicli is now in the custody of l6 \;ar crir.ies investication Teari. Dated the 3rd July 1946• (sieved) B.T. HUMPHREYS. Capt, R.A-.、 investigator l6 v r nr Crines investigation Tean.. /iGGntiary Docune二。、o:. ；•たシ《 / 孓 厂 ノ ft rô lvl CI? ST^TEIvWriT しworn Str.tement of Address;- Occupation v こ：.し’二to .TO 3E?H c/" F» 3 S JOSEPH, HEAD MASTER,KYAIKL St.uden.: Duly sworn state a ,ェ am 16 years of age, of ̂ n glo-Burme se _ ^iiristian nationality^] and born at KYAIKTO • My permanent home—is at KYAIKTO'. I an at present living at KYAIKTO.“ About 20 days after the arrival of K , T . at our house, one imorning at about 1100 hours I cane to the house from PHEKALEIK •j village to which place we had evacuated earlier and while there ：エ saw a well dressed Indian, who I afterwards learnt that he died j at p E K A L E I K while under K . T . custody, talking with Capt. IjMTSUOKA Kenro while Sgt 0 Ma j • SUZUKI Kiyoshi was sitting near j!eating rice, I know these two K.T« by their photographs• I heard ；!MATSUOKA asking the Indian what property he possess and where he lived. After a while I ssw Sgt. TOYAMA Shoji took this Indian 1 丨away to the back garden and Corporal SAKAMAKI Tsutae and SAKAKI 'Toyohiko who I recognise by photographs tied hin with a rope and 丨丨"blind folded him anc! brought him back to the house and put in jiwooden fetters • At about 1630 h r s , after their meal W . O . TSUB0I Yoshio, I can ！:recognise from photograph, interrogated him and ordered Sgjt^. TOYAMi. 'who rapped the Indian's foot wi..th rags and pour kerosine oil on It„" and set fire to the foot« Later I foimd this foot with a big sore and rofモing• Is the sore was smelling he wes kept apart. 2 days after ell the K . T . left for NGAFYAWDAW village where "paratroops were heard to drop leaving SUZUKI Kiyoshi, one Jap officer in spectacles who is not among the photographs and other N.C.Os. That very day I was interpreter THAN AUNG of LEITPYAGAN Qr ., PEGU, brought one woman, whose husband I know to be. K0 BA MG of KYAIKTO, tied with a rope. The Jap Officer asked him .why she did not accept the worn out Jap currency. She pleased ,;th£it it was not generally accepted. TRen TRe~"t]ap officer said that j：she must be punished and another Jap whole photograph is not here, ^tied her with a rope but she escaped and the Jap chased her and pull eel her back by her hair. TfierT she has retiEd ancl. beaten* the ‘seirio Jap while gUZUKI Kiyoiiii stood by and laughed snd clapped his Hiands, Then SUZUKI Kiyoshi ordered the Jcp to stop, and tied lier Jto a postu When she was tied the Ja£ took off hgn longyi ang “ ! beat her agaiQ.. At this juncture I went up stairs and peeped 丨,through the floor. Then THAN AUNG brought a placard on which were '•written some Burmese letters and hirng it on her neck. Then her •'longyi was restured snd was pulled along the road by the rope d f-oll,nwpd by the interpreter, the Jap and Cpl SAITO Kenji who エ ^recognise by the photograph. ~ エ was told that she was taken to the 5bazaar and was exhibited• After a while I followed and found the psrty at the pagoda wue‘t released unconscious and I returned to FHEKALEIK. ェ saw her fell do如11 |t Then on the 17th J u n e , 1 9 4 5 , the day we were arrested at sbout 0900 hours while I was kept under arrest on the ground floo I saw S D L T M taken out by Cpls. SAKAJ.5AKI and SAKAKI to the air re trench in the back garden, W.O. TSUBOI was then sitting on a chsir near the trcnch. A Jap with a dsh cut scar on the fore-heac took a pitcher full of hot water andhe poured the hot water into j J SUL^mUFS month T.STTBOT^who knows Burmese well interrogated, and ordered the Jap who kicked SULTAN into the trench which was full of water end he pressed hin down with his foot. After a few minutes, he was pulled up and the drowning wes repeated 3 or 4 times. Then I saw S U L T M unconscious and was brought back and put in wooden fetters agsiin. At about 1600 hours MA SWAN TI was brought in and taken out to the back garden and beaten by the Jap with the scar on the forehead, while W.O. TSUBOI interrogated her and Cpl. CHIBA Nobuo was looking after MA SWA1J TI child. iL I only heerd ABHUSU garden. On the same day- crying in pain from the back of the I was released, i (Signature) ROLAND JOSEPH Interpreter. I certify that I duly translated the above surnary to the witness in his own language prior to his signature which appears above. (Signature) indecipherable• Interpreter. Affirmed before ine ？ (Signature) Rank: Capt. Description:- Army officer on 6th July, 1946. An officer detailed to examine the above by the Cominanc'：er-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South East Asia. (AUTHORITY：' At/lMf. iiLFSEA We.r Crimes Instruction N o . 1 . p a r a 7 ) . Among these KEIIPEITAIS TOYAliA were the cruel est of I was arrested on 17 June 45 by the s/n KEI.IPETTAIS, who occupied ny house o I did not know why I was a r r e s t e d I escaped from their custody the same night and did nob see them again» I While"~T->i¥as staying in my house together with the a/m H-^iSE-I-TAIS^J^i? al^o-ut 2 months I witnessed thpiy a h^nni f.i (espe— ！' cielly of Sgt u KATO and Sgt, TOYAliA) Prisoners (nemes NOT know) ;；were ill treated in the following manners 5 while in their custody ( 1 ) B e a t the prisoners with big solid banboo sticks (approx. length 4 1 /5 2 - diameter 3") Beat the prisoners uirti丄 they confessed ( i 0 e , forcec 1 confession). !j (2) During beating and interrogation, prisoners were made to squat !i wi-th hands and fee c tied with ropes & j/13) The hands of the prisoners were tied with topes« Prisoners /I were then strung up tっ the roof of the house by their hand so that \l their feet did not touch the ground t Prisoners were left like 卜 t h i s for some time . | ⑷ During interrogation, the prisoner 5 s hands end legs were tl splashed with large auantity of boiling water 0 ^ ^ ‘ Evidenticry Document N o . 5356. / ̂ ^ Name Father Caste Address HARRY JOSEPHo Age 23 Y r s 0 M r 0 S , JO a s m Anglo Indian, Christian GANGAW Q:r” tolKTO。（M ヲ 2 9 8 ) HAFJ.Y JOSEPH, having been duly swornヲ states “ "エ solermly and sincerely declare that I will tell the truth, ；! the whole truth, nothing "but the truth»11 I . : "The KEIIPEITkl of KYAIKTO stayed in our house from April 45 to June 457" There we:^e about 25 KEIvLPEITAI personnelo] The names of some of the KEMPEITAI a_re given below:- ( 1 ) L t * M T S U O K A “pprox, 40 yrsc of age - Height approx 5'6" with spectacless thin)。 (2) Sgt. Maj „ KIIAWASAKI (age approx. 35/4-0 - Height approx 5 1 6 : : Thin - always speaks with s smile。） (3) Sgt 0 KATO (Age approx, 30/35 x - Height apprcx ヲ ,i' 1 - shoulder slightly cent u ) (4) Sgt» TOYAMA (Age approx. 35 一 Height approx 5'6" cruel looking)» (5) Sgt e SUZUKI (celled MOKPALIN SUZUKI who came to KYAIKTO from KEMPEITAI hQ at I.IOKPALIK (G 3314) Age approx 35 - stout - height approx 5' 6") ⑷ S g t KATO and No t g s s <. 3 . P(o 1 o e N h t J e S 0 F » EUKNETT L t a Col 0 17 War Crimes Investigation Team Col, J " ふ E M E T T . D S O . M C ) Tel. C e n t r a l 1 7 ^ c I flEKEBY CE TIFY thst this is a true copy of the Sworn Statement made by KABHY JOSEFH, Anglo Indian, Christian, GAKGAW Qt 0 , KYAIKTO (M 5298) before L t e BA KO, Dot, 602 F 6 S 0 S . 6 3 エ n d . Inf, Bdo e Page 2. quantity of so that the Evidentiary Document No。 5346, 丨 : (5) The prisoner was blind folded, then a large ::water slowly poured J.nto his mouth and. nostiils, « prisoner s u f f o c a t e d ^ Among the K E M P E I T M S , L t 0 IIAT3U0KA gave the orders and the rest carried them out。エ.could definitely say that Sgt. KATO and Sgt. TOYAMA were the cruelost KE1.IEITAIS of the lot, /s/ EAHLY Recorded by me on 13 Kov» 45 at KYAIKTO (M 5 2 9 8 ) /s/ Lt。 BA KO Detc 602 FoSoS, 6 3 Inde Inf, B d e . This statement has been read which he understands and has correct, over to the witness in a language been acknowledged by him to be / ' c t s £ / o ( e s d o s B • ® f B Fn I " 2 t o » L 6 d n c I /t 3 G 3 /D6 Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. SUORN S T A T E I S W o f RUDOLF BI.STL V/ILSON, wireless operator, Civil uireless station, Bangalore caxrtoniiieirt j I was employed as a wireless operator in port Blair since \7e were captured by the Japanese on 23 I/lirch 1942 and kept prisoners on the island for oi^ht raonths• _ 一 ^jo weeks after out capture, in port Blair, i.ir• A # G t Bird, Connercial officer and personal assistant to the chiof Conniisioner, was cataじcrised as a spy by the Japanese• ne was taken out, tortured and everxtually beheaded in public on Aberdeen. I did "not witness this as I was kept on R C S S island»�T)TRTR""PET)PTE connected with the convict establish- ment on the /jidanians v:ill possibly be able to £;ive details of tliis incident• On 20th November 1942 oi 0 hteen of us v/ere taken by the Japanese in the hatch of the KUNITU I.翻TJ to Rangoon. This party included various 一G。vĵ officials anions whom was the chief c o m m i s s i o n e r » C t F # ！v!/iTEHFiiLL. reached pangon on 22nd November 1942 andttkcn straight to the Central jail # i7e were confined in cells rjeant for solitary confinement but tvo v;ere kept in each ccll # ^Stor two days of confinement in this cell v/e were rerjoved to the win。for British p r i s o n e r D u r i n g the time that we v/ere in the solitary cclls most of us were beaten up by the Japanese guards. The chief Coi^roissionor and, I tliinlc, the padre cf the Church of England, ijev # ic^np who v/ere in the cell next but one to mine v;ero the persons most severely beaten. The beatings were due to the fact that v/e did net understand what the guards wanted us to do, and which f I later learnt v v/as that uo should bew to thon when we net then. The worst beatings were in connection v/ith tho "Tonus that v/e were rnde tc fill in giving details cf our nanos, occupations, state cf nind at the tine of •capture etc # /f The Japanese {^ard responsible for the beatii^s while we were in tnc solitary cells \iaa killed in a subsequent air raid on Rangoon• After our removal to the British Mine we were kept in cells• criminally intended for 28 convicts, but which invariably contained 4〇 or more prisoners of war. ^ho sanitary arrancenents were i^ost unhygienic and v;e had to clean our lavatories ourselves • Tjhile エ was in Han^oon jail,エ was not beaten, but beatings for others v/ere daily features• of these I can particularly rerieber cases of I.Pj• Lorinci C^pt. Mason, Brigadier Hobsgn and one ir# I-pnin f a prisoner of over 60 and who is now in the B.HJI, f B^Galore, ,— One Japanese guard in particular, whose nanc i do not know but who v/as knoun as the »»ipulnein Terror” was the worst at this j a i l .H © was a short, puny individual and whenever there was an air raid, which was frequent, l^ison and Lorin^ would be tahen cut cf the jail compound Gate and beaten up by the "ipulinein Terror They were either slapped, fisted or beaten \:ith the butts of rifles^ Evidentiary Document No。 5346, Page 2. 2. TV70 other guards, v/hc were in charge of the garden party one by nar.B MDTO and another known anon^ us as «rhe Adroiral»» t indulged in considerable ill-treatnent of prisoners. They usually adopted the practice of kickinc\7ith animniiticn boots on the shins or private parts of _prisoners. i./pst of the punishments were inflicted as the result of the prisoners failing to understand orders ^iven rapidly in the Japanese 〜laxiijuâ e』«»rhe Admiralv/as so named by us because ho had been trans- ferred fron the jap invy to the Beatings with rifle butts and arnuiiition boots took place secularly every day but I cannot renenber any specific dates on v/liich any particular prisoner was thus beaten up. The Japanese guards allotted punislniBnt cn a tmtual responsibility»» basis # That is to say for any iiisderaeanour conmitted by anybody, the actual individual concorned as TO 11 as the senior officer, Bri^dier Hob sen f would be punished • On tv:o occasions the Japanese cuarfi comnander f when ^oin^ round after lights out discovered a faint {jlov; cf burning embers in the cook- house. pimediately Br、Hobson uas called out and beat en # I did not see the beating but heard the ounds TiiBn the cook-house staff (prisoners) vrerc called out and in the presence of Brie* Hobson, m d e to fall in raiilcs facing cach ether and riade tc slap each other hard, for a con- j sirler£il\le length of The 'jurvC. irvclvod these instancGs was 'loiovn as wiIUIffY w due to his stoopij^j gait. l:Tm Ipnin was severely beaten by I.!0T0, in rjy presence. The reason for this v/as that T/hon r/pnin passed ITOTO, his bev; was net jDbservod by MDTO, who presunin^ that I-!DNIN did not bow when ho cimo into the jail corみ:‘ound, beat ipnin was also kicked # it was a severe boating for an average young nian and ronin i/ac half carried and half dragged up to hie cell in a ctate of cerdL-collapGe, The uorct beatings ^ere given to nev/ priccners arriving in jail. These, as they arrived, uere kept in solitary confinement upwards of three -jeelcs at a time, during which time they v/ere frequently beaten up, the buckle end of a belt and the steel shaft cf a golf club being the .chief weapons. II j have seen the guard, known as the "iioulmeln Terror" ^ ^ i n g towards the solitary cells with a golf club, rive American priests - r # jJcrwioan,Fathers O'Reilly• o f Sullivan, Demarais and L^cey 一 uho i.ere thus confined in solitary cells and beaten up have told us of instances of British Airmen prisoners being starved and beaten up severely. Deaths among prisoners in the Rangoon ja:UL v/ere frequent, due mostly to malnutrition and lack of medical facilities, I Cpl. Sykes, pte # rollet, pte. Abrahamscn of the Dul:e of Wellingtons • pto. Holds;/crth cf the T?est yorks and pte t sheard of the ::0YLIS v/ere a few that エ can remembet'.エ think Rev. jceinp f mentioned e a r l i e r i s now in yorcaud, had a list of prisoners who died in Rangoon jail during the period that ェ was there. Bori beri and dysentery were the cause of most deaths. evidentiary Document -Ji 53^5 • 3. The doctors v;ho may be able to give fuller detail are Lt .001* rackenzic, H.A # I\C # , I為cleoc* ェ•1夂:5善,1)で.IBcdonalcl, and Dr. Sv/ingler, I‘I.「-D. Dr. I^cdonald is nou at B«I.:J-U> Bangalore, nhile Qr, Stingier, I understand, is at Shi丄long、 The only medicine available as far as エ can remember v/ere yitamln B tablets for beri beri, bone charcoal for dysentery and diarrchea and n2s for skin diseases• There て:ere also eases cf prisoners of uar whe were taken for experimental purposes and used as guinea pigs. I have heard of cases cf such prisoners being injected \rith denge germs among ether germs• This, houever, was before I reached [Rangoon jail and I vas told this by several prisoners, one of such prisoners, I thinlc-,is Col. Dovetoiji PAID. Apart from this I have heard cf Group captain Ilbore who was starved and ill-treated in the solitary cells fcr refusingto disclose inforioaion desired by the japs. - I was taken tc T^voy on l6th April 1943 where I was kept in an internment camp. Here エ was beaten up a na^iher of times three of which I can remember^ it v;c.s fcr boin^： a"h丄e to understand an order given in Japanese ty OpI 3 0i:/JI0TC v;:..o ::as 5.n charge of the sa:7—mill in the camp. 〇kam:/to on th5 g cocasion boat me w^th a flat piece of wood all over the bedy^ on anothtar co cation [ was bat en ap by the of the can^), riTi\HiVRA. This v;as fcoraur.o ab a gramophone concert where エ was detailed to play a number cf records：ェ played one more than the number put to the programme. ITITAIIARA struck me v/ith his closed fist on the face a number of times. The third beating was als莰 by riTAHARA. for not boT/ing to him. He commencGcl v/ith his fists and later resorted to his b e l t .ェ and another prisoner - ISJMBI - v/ere thennade to kiieel in front of the guard room* A bamboo stick 2 inches in diameter f was then placed in the hollow behing the kiiees and ^e were made to sit back on our heels for about two hours, after which we had to rise and stand to attention for another two hours• Dr, mentioned earlier, and one レ:rs, chillers, v/idov; of Lt # Col# Chilclers, were given solitary confinements for 3 months arid frequently beaten when in solitary confinement, f This was clone by a three "slar private by name T H TATE was the individual responsible for most of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Tavoy camp from jan # 44 to Aug 45• He was the interpreter of the camp but appeared to have extraordinary powers and virtually ran the can^. its 0 Chilclers received particularly bad treatment from TAIT.. TTith the advent of TAIIE an absolute reign of terror prevailed, IT» Forbes i.itchell, his x;ifo and four year old son, at present staying in 5 Curley street f Richmond Tov/n t Bangalore Cantt ；, received considerable ill-treatment at the hands of TAIT was responsible for deciding on diet of sick prisoners a\id due to his dislike cf i.itchell refused to allou any special s:Lck diet being ^von to jitchell's son, who was e:ctremely weak arid under-nourished • Svidentiary Document ；f 53^5 • ^ There was a i.rs. Tun Ilia oung, wife cf Capt. T'oii Hla Ouii^ r.ic- vias brovight doun from I舁ymyo tc >pavoy caiiip, she v;as an English u/r^o^ aged about 26, and was subjected tc an indecent assault by one of the camp Governors,| This particular governor was in coramand previous to the individual uho v/as governor at the time of cur release. I do net know the details of this incident but I have heard that TAIIE aided the governor in his assault on iun Hl^ Oung, fl I in T^voy food deteriorated to such an extent that we were ！ obliged to eat dogs t rats and snakes• •pvo other wireless operators, who uere in Rangoon jail and T^voy camp v;ith me and who might be able to furnish more information, arc B.C. ALLISONT 4 Alexander street f Richmond TO^TII, and マIGGIKS,l6 IVcod Street, B^nglore c^ntt： Read over and approved as a correct record # (Signed) HUDOLF B/ISIL V/ILSON. Bangalore 23 Feb, 46. Tlie above sv/orn statement of 1ケ，Rudolf Basil ;;ilson, consisting of 3 pages was recorded by me and read over tc him on 23 Feb. and a-pproved by hini as a correct record. (Signed) Capt. Staff H / U , C. Thomas Captain,Legal, Bangalore 丄jrea # I certify that the above is the above is the true copy of the statement made by H.B. WILSON. (Signed) ？ Capt•書 investigator,17 W^C.I.T. Detailed by Oin-C ALFSEi“ Ldentiary Docijmeiit 孕 53^1• /ダMP Appendix "A" part エエ ALFSEk War Crimes Instruction NO. It Suirmary of Occupation Address F0HJ r OF STATET.EI-1T> Examination of TAN HAIN m o Assistant l^nacer 9 T.^tch Factory^ 127 Hanthaxyaddy R d ” icemmendine 9 Duly sworn states, 1 am 32 years of age, of Chinese Nationality and born at AJDY, China• permanent address is I am nov/ living at 127 Hsntha;;addy Rd., Kemmendine • I27 Hanthawaddy Rd 0 9 Keinmendine* From ipy to November 1942 I vms made to work by the japs at the western gempei itii branch at prome Court as a temporary interpreter. Aう that time a jap named Lt.(later Capt.) IJJL'J.S.订as 0,C # MIYAn“ Lieutenant, promoted at end of 1942 to Captain 4 just over 4〇,looked Height: about 5 ft. 3 ins # Stout build Goin/j bald on top # El^ck hair, close cropped back and sides, Sr^all dark eyes© Fairly isx^e nose. Small iiioustache Small mouth # Fairly full lips. Round face # I remeiaber the occasion of tho execution of 5 Chinese from Rangoon at the K^inmondine Chinese CeEidtery f but I cannot remember the exact date. The 5 Chinese were：- CHAI了 BOON CHAO YEUF IQTAI S00 YEO 服 T G TWAY LEU HYE SOT! LIT： I01H CHAO The day before tho execution my cousin, TAN SIN K/'J?, cade and told me that his brother—in—lau, CHAN BOON CIL10 f was aoinc to bo executc I do net knov; hou he knew this # I v/ent to a serceant at prome Court named idUHORI, and asked nun to intervene on his behalf as he was a relative of miiiG f ^RiiHORI: sercoaiit ACe： about 3〇 Keicht ； abou$ 5 £to 2 ins # Slim build Short black hair. ryidcntiary Doo'amixrfc • 2 , Dark eyes # No spectacles. Straight nose. Fairly thin lips # No moustache 9 Lonじ face* No scar. iJUHOIH uent, I believe, to Lt. 1HYATA, but when he returned said that nothing could be done as the order for the execution had comc from I then asked on irjy cousin's behalf if エ could arrance for the burial of CKAN BOON CKAO in the Chinese fashion. This request was Santod. The next morning I v/ent to prome Court as u s u a l •エ was asking “RAHORI what エ should do about collecting the body, when an officer came in and told m. to î o to Lt• I:3yi\I5u I could not recognise the officer who c;ave me the order. Between 7 皿d 8 a # m # ェleft prome court in a car with Lt« inYAMY ^nd another officer who may have been a doctor• — I could not noT7 reco/jiiise the officer who accompanied us as I saw him only on that occasion. Upon our arrival at the cemetery v;e v/ent in # I forest now v;hether the prisoners arrived before or after we did # Other japs had arrived from the E^st Kenipei T^i branch and HC^ Altogether there were 7 or 8 officers, of whom ェ knew: Lt. IIEYAISi, Lt. IIHTOSTA, KD'OSTA: O.C. Y/est Eempei Tai f described above # O.C. East ^einpei T^i, branch. Lieutenant (later promoted to Captain) Aĵ e： about 35 or 4〇藝 Height； about ^ ft. 6 ins, T7ell built. Short black hair. No spectacles. Erovm eyes. No moustache. Straight nose Fairly wide mouth # Thin lips, Lonし face. 1-jo scars. Seven or ei己ht N.C # 0s were there of whom ェ knew three from prome Court. set set set AHAHORI: described above. UCHID1； on charce of II,T. at prome Courts I T T O m： Docuia^nt // 53^7 • 3. Ser^eat /ige： about 3〇 Heighti about 5 ft, 4 ins # *7e.ll built o Short black hair# Dark eyes® NO spectacles# Racher flat nose. ]\jo moustaches. Small thin lips Oval face. IdTOI.iA: serceant A^e； about 3° Height； about 3 れ • 3 ins. Thin build Short black hair Grey eyes. No spectacles. L。r̂ ; pointed nose # No moustache, •Tide mouth • Thin lips Lon^ face. No scars • There v/ere about 10 private soldiers with rifles# ixlso there were 3 other people in civilian dress who エ took to be interpreters from other irenpei T^i branches # A table had been brought v on which were a white cloth, some flowers, one or t\/o bottles of saki, and some classes. The prisoners v;ere seated together on the ground # They v/ere not bound • Lt • ItTYAI.'E read a few words to them from a paper to the effcct that they had been working against the japs and collecting iooney for anti-Japanese activities, with the result that orders had come from HCi for their execution. I translated it to theoa Lt • IT/AI'Lx then asked if they wanted to send any messages to their families • ne gare me a pencil and paper and told me to pretend to write. All the prisoners were talking at once and I would not have been able to take it all down in any oase # エ simply v/rote the nam© CHAU BOON CHAO on the paper # lvidentiary UCH3DA: llYAHx then told rae to I v/ent away t« a distance of about 30 yards. r\r.v.dentiary Lo^^ejiL 5.3^7 o 一 T̂ ie 5 prisoners were inade to sit r/ith their le^s in the saves which v/ere already due® Their backs were against boards stuck in tho Ground at the head of each crave e r/hich bore their names 0 They were tie to the bcurds in some manner^ Their eyes were bandaged and another clor v;as put round cach s forehead r/ith a black spot in the centres, presumably to act as a target• 5 soldiers placed their rifles on s t a n d s •う or 6 other suldiei stood a little way behind them® All the officers and N # C # Os except H3Y/狐 moved off to a distance of about 3〇 yards • Lt. I'JTIkllli then cave the order to fire # After that the officers and N»C # 0s moved across to see the bodies, and I left the cometery to order a coffin at a shop just dovm the road, for CHAKBOON CK/.O's body. ITiien I returned, U of tho bodioo had been put in tho graves and the soldiers and some Barman's wore filling them in. The body of CH/J、T BOON CII^O was lyine by an empty {jrave 9 エ orroi^cd for the body to be put in the coffin and carried to a nearby hut. liiis took about 20 minutes and when エ came away from tho hut the japs were leaving the cemetery. On the road outside I mot w cousin T M SIN KAR cn his v/ay to the ceiaetery.エ told him エ hc‘d arranged about the body and then returned to the factory at r/hich I work. (Signed) T/JJ IL.IN ETTG-. Sworn before me (signature) Captain, Coomandin^ 598 F.S. Section, S,E“'“C. This 2nd day of July 1946. Detailed to examine the above by the Conmcmder-in-Chief, allied L^nd Forces, south E^st ム s i c u Authority：ュUSE/ム IT̂ r Crimes instruction 1 para 7 # I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the sworn statement nnde by Tブぶ HAIN ENG, “ssistant i.-tinâ er, l?atch Factory,127 Hanthav/addy 如"Koimnendine, before Captain, F.S.O. Comandir^ 588, F.S. Section, SJH丄.C,，this 2nd July 19； (Signed) J.S.F # BURNETT. Lt. Col # 17 War Crimes mvestigation Team. (Lt.Col. BUHMETT, DS0 t I..Cノ Evidentiary Document 梓 536ら S T A m U W OF IE. J.E. ”ILLLiIB, Dental surgeon, Rangoon, B^rioa, re Tilt eminent Camps in isiyiayo and T'-voy ̂ I,lr» J.HW ”ULIALS, duly suorn, states:- I was taken as a prisonor of 'jar and was sent to TOIIBC in VAY l ^I0. cawp During ny si;r. ^ocl.3 .a s camp inflicted on E.O prinor.arr, of \7 r .v • Cn by the Japanese in I jay 1943 I Ydtncsscd extreme cruelty one occasion all the E.O.RSi were lined up トマa卞ご:！ •：1.ゃ：r, jOu、n cnoi-dz ；pay or tham had their boots taken from theiif户'li3i: ^ran^fo/.r^d \ic:n luy^yじ fcLc.y verc ooinp3lled tc walk bare-footed and only 3ia.LT c lr-'ric-l I also tho d^ath of trrc BrC^Ps, duo tc the inhuanity of the 1^0. in change, a i.ici.t. eb.ut 5 ft 0 ？ パ i n height,light com- plexion for a j a p h e a.lso had afhjn nustechc^ 3iis naioo エ do not reicamber 9 He actually kicked one man tc death for lie v/as sufferingfrem a stoimch complaint, and could net control ” 汰 • • The Commandant cf the caiig) was Gapt, yamakuchi • He also was very cruel judging by the accounts ci zye rn^respos^ '[4i.e c^pt. had a habit of beating up all new prisoners jutt fcr th»； fun of it 0 エ understand that a British l.̂ ijor v/as hurgnpsie'e cC7n aftaj ba；ar; g:•つ'うi: tlie vater treatment, and also severely beaten at the じar.‘t t hn. b; h/iis c-^i^or. in June 1943 エ was transfer:?しd tii o-;hers *cc rYAUTHH^ in this cap ire were fairly xiel treated. The c v 0 . v;as j. EOMOTO, and the senior I.^C.0, was Sgt. m Feb® 1944 ue v/ere t^ken back to ĵ ycij'-o, but not to Tonbo Our stay in this particular esf/'jas laievcn^fuij except fcr an assault on ITS-. Aungby a jap soldior, heccuso she had. smiled jn his presence, 一_ • in 1944 we ^ere tronsfcirr'.d しc r in ,r oy croiip where the con- ditions R/ere bad. New corners were net a.lIGUGCI to speak to each ether, men separated from their wives and children^ The rocd v/as bad and 90^ of the ininates suffered from beri bcri f pellaga f and ether forms of mal- nutrition. JL/Cpl> T^kie was the big shot in this campf his was a tyranical regime t T H E IQDXI were beaten T>y him almost duiiy # 砂 also made advances tc most of the woinen in camp, including some cf the nuns^ this was told -iob by his orderlies • i personally knov of one case in which Mrs* Aun^ v{as taken from her hut and hrougt Derore ihe Governor for th.e i^rpose <5f ro^e^ Aung was with the ip^STTiSt for several hours in a ETl near l e r e xoy nut was situated^ I therefore beard all that went oh "during" the iCviientiary Document ガ ^yA • 2. time that she uas with himj this nnst have he^rx a ordeal for An .-rmcd ^U'rC uas plr‘ced out^^ue 罾 hut by T̂ -lo 3 upp:：:;o:r；-ly tc prevent anyJbi デで门巧 g-Lieaptin^： to rescue Ers # ^akie vas dircctly rcsponsiae for ti.is a t bc.jl: 0 ^rtor 1 this episc^cle Ti±ie began tc maize love to its p Aung, and they were planninglo 10 HUiSiilU Ull^t the T TTrmiv TFL^T 'i'tikie forcedTier to comply with in I.pyiayo it was said that _l!rs. Aung too, forced to marry a .Tap̂ _ Cel. _Jimし bct-v/een sept, and Dec. 1 9 4 3 - エ t o l a this by father Ciorici. During the entire period of ray internment エ was m^de to do dental work for the Japanese, usin^ny or;n tools, instruments and iiBterial, for rliich I received practically no pay； only for a short period of time when エ was sent out of camp to the jap hospitals to perform dental treatment v;as I paidj this v;as absolutely inadeauate for the treatment anc" scrviccs rendered• Sivorn before nic (signature) MCGREGOR, (rank) capt, (description) Tfar Crime investigation, this 12th day of ljurch 1946-• Detailed to examine the above by the coimiandcr-in-chicf t Allied Land Fcrccs^ south nast Asia* (Authority： ALFSEA. "ar Crirnos instruction N o . 1 - p a r a 7) Certified that the above is the true copy of the statement of J.H. 'TILLIA； (Signed) j 4 }U UILLIA LS (Signed) l U h AQ^RUALt Capt• Date； 13^9.46, 16 T7.C.I.T. jL ividentiary Document ガ 53^9 • S T A T E M T W IBS. I5.M. 'TILIJJUB, Station -Road., Rangoon rc internment in IJ^ymyo and T^voy # ，7illiしimS| duly sworn states:- in }jiy 1943 j and my husband x/crc arrested by the Japanese and interned in Tonbo camp, l.^aymyo. During the same month エ witnessedl the C^mip Commandant, Capt • YAI.IAI-̂ JCHIf accompanied by tho jap a Lieut, about 5 7 ins. in hoifet f liglrfc c0115)lexion, thin nioustachc, beat with a sword f punch in the stomach about 4〇 British scldicro. Those men v;crc starving, ancl net fed for three days prior to intorrcgticn # I heard thompload for food, ana tell c^pt f YAI/IAIOJCIil,叩ecd us, thon v;c can talk prior to interrogation they v;erc sprayed v/ith disinfectant. Three died during iqy stay in oainp^ and i feel their death ivas due to the beatings and starvation. An Indian tcld mo he had seen a British j.pjor suspended upside dov;n from a J tree and water pouring from his mouth, YAMAI3JGHI beating him with a stick, I ihe }r u o 9 Qccused 咖 of being a spy and slapped me in the facc t I し ^ 、 About July 1943 It my husband, l^rs, scott Gray, i^r. Scott Gray and the Stanley family vere transferred to ryciukme internment C し 3 X this camp we Tvero fairly well-treated by l^j. rOHTO and SgJ.—狐GA•丨 On Feb. l6th 1944 the abcvementioned party and including H L'pxphy»Ford f s^^vlirigand Erindie were taken back to lpyayo,to a camp near the signo.1 L i n e s • A u n g tcld me she had been beaten, and エ also say her being struck v/ith a rifle 9 and kicked in tho groin, and slapped il on the face "by a jap sentry. It was said in camp that Aung had j| married a Japanese Colonel f j 1 " • The following people on the 8th Nov. 1944 v;crc transferred from I.̂ yniyo tc javoy arriving there 1st Dec # 1944® IT• and i.rs # scott Gray, r,Ts t Aung» IT. Ford, I(jarphy, Sterling, Brindle, Stanley wife and family. Father clerici, myself and my husband• A ueekaftor our arrivalj Takie、askec /±f I wanted to change 1200/- in maian currency to Japanese occupation- al notes, not AGXEO but was 'c CHIP ell ed arid rcce-ived <m% fnr onn^.- I did not spend any cf this mc-ney and after peace v/as declared Takie refused to change it back into Indian curroncy # The jap nney is still in jr. possessioiit On or about the 1st Feb. 1945 エ saw irs. scott Gray, jrs. Aung and Florence Stanley standing in tho sun for a, supposed breach of camp rules ordered by tニkie; Mrs. scott Gray stood for s£3tgn hours f ITTs® Aung for ten and Floronce Stanley for eight hours, t故ie{on this I occasion also slapped Aung coia ivs 0 scctt Gray. ,/ ~ • . — — The water carrier uphd. Z^nan told me that ljrs# Ghilders, rothor sucille and himself had been severely beaten with a leather buckled belt by Takie t iyidentiary Document 体 33^9' 2. IT. Holden Harolcl and ^ytncy told m that T^kie had atteiapted to seduce Enid, lie (nr. Kolden) had applied for an intcrTicu v;ith t’:e Governor, this application vas refused by T^ie,and lie had recoivod a beating instead. Oil or about the 1st April 1945 after an air pamphlet raid T ^ i ® l| came tc House F o . 1 2 occupied by ioyself, irs. Aung, Scott cay, Stanley ^ and Alexander called i.rs. Aung outside and took her to Capt. HIMJEA ；in the construction office, she returned about 0330 hours with her i clothes torn in slireds； she inform&d us that HIIUTUi had tr4d to rape !； her, but she had resisted. After the above .incident irucis had partitions erected in House iTo, 12 and visited trs. /.m^: verダ frc^-rr>.iy ? qui'Le often staying untl 0200 hours and I have overy reason to felievc that sexual intercourse took place. Durng the JODEOOHS in July 1945 エ f-'as ertreriely ill AND could not get up for roll c a l l； I was dragged out by a senary, acting on yalcie 's orders, and made to stand ir： the sun for nine hours* After our release ijid in Rangoon, irs, Forbes Jlitchell told me that 011 several occasions Tじkie had raped her in the construction office (Signed) I'.l：. r i L L L J B . Swcrn before (signature) A.II. li.CGREGOH, Capt. (description) l̂ /ar crimes investigation, this 12th day of i,.?irch 194^. Detailed to exoi血 e tho abve by the Corrtiandcr-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces, South ]jast Asia, (Authority. iXFSSi !7ar Crimes instruction ITo.1 para, 7), Certified that the above is the true copy cf the statement of Mrs. M,r，'Tilliams, Date： 13.9,46. (Signed) Capt. Off. IvPjor Lesal, l6 'J.C.I.T. D o c . 5 4 4 3 ノ ^ ) 、 7 Page SYmPSIS u H h ^ ？n£ S I P/lii/ sent to XIIRMA Sector of iurma/'Sie^i Hsilw^y- a) Prosecuticn Docujnent nijzfbered 5205^., the Affidavit of Chaolain ょ• iiiSHICED ? is offered for iclentificption, a.nd the marked excerpts prcduced in evidence: "On 15.3.43 at ！I'hanilDyu2P,yet Camp,ェ interviewed POv/ I\o. 2867, Pte. I ell, a. J。, AlJ. At that time he tos confined after "being recppt^jxed folloving his escape on 12 .2.43. At th?t time he HP.d no knovlsdge that he WPS under sentence of de^th, nor die I have any such knovlec".§e. r.e w s , in f r ct, executed at 031b hours on 15.3.43 一 the day after I interviewed him. So fa.r as I am avrp.re he TO.S given no trial. Al)out 14 drys prior to 13.12.43, the undermentioned Dutch personnel escaped iron Japanese captivity from I-'egrlie Ca.mp (approximately 8 kas from Tiianfbyuzajr'at): Capt. J.L.Vu De HOCHEMOIJT Cp.pt. I.A.h. • &•A. HL2M£iJS ！These officers were su"bseq_uently epptured; the officers v/ere executed "by r. firing party unc.er lit- ITAIXO a/bout 0815 hours on 13.12.42. Cn 2 7 . 4 2 , the undemeritioned Dutch personnel Yere executed for escaping fron 1'iiiiiJiiLIE Camp: Sgt. Ih. H- Vん:HAASEi.' Pte VBICDLVOOGD Pte r-.H. x.^ILbS^ElT On 13.12.4S IU, 6^005 Pte uhliTIELD 0. iili••， rrrived at 1'hein'byuza.yat C^jnp. he had escaped some Keeks before from Kanc.&vr しamp, roughly kilometres from Ihambyuzeyat. Cur Medical oilicers vere of opinion that ^"nitfielc vas not mentally sound. irigpdier V>r丄ey interviewed. Lja.ito for the purpose of discovering v/hat would "be the punichment of e. mn vho escaped end gave himself up, tut not "being mentally sound. Eaito informed the irigp.dier that such a ufh would not De shot. .hitfield ve.s not confined "but allowed tc remain in the hospital hut. Doc.1 o- 5442’ - - - ^ -隱...• . 2. ^ ^ ^ B H B B ^ M S ^ J . . . / — ^ J Shortle before- HOD" hours oa 12«4-2, a p e r ^ «-,f Japanese a r r i v e d t h i s - f e ^ , F sked T&icvhN^^s hitfj-eld, pnd upon "being told that V/hitfi^lc w e s "outside "boiling e "billy, “ the man vho VPS ooiling the till：, and ^-ho vas, in fact, Whitfield,パ5as seized and. his hpnd^' tied De::.incl his t F ck, and his eyes "blind- felded and the immediately t?ken to the place tf execution 一 a cemetery neprby - and executed e. few minutes later. There vas -iic sealDlpnce a trial.エ cond_ucte(i the "burial service over his rerae ins ^n that day.“ "b) Prosecution document nmDered 5034, the i-ffxo.e.vit of Lt• C o l . C , K. ĵ -uiiCK, is now produced for identifica.tion, the marked excerpts thereof 、bei^Lf #ffered in evidence. This document states thet the witness commended a. force of P/V； vhich at the end cf 1942, vent a c?jnp 4T • kilts fr-迈 Tha,m*baziat. "Conditions at this camp vrere shocking. There ve,s an insufficiency of water and food was very shtrt• The hospitrl vres in e gully, and the cemv had "been occupied previously "by iurmese and was generally in r.ery "bpei ccnditicn. The sick rate rapidly increased f.nd I think at one stage there vere s/bout 130 men in h^soital, ana aD^ut 90 to 100 had very "bad. dirrrhoea out of a total strength •f 675. Tvro men died fr^m dysentery, but despite my representations tf the Japanese lance-c•rpora.l,v^as in charge of the cpanp, • rnd. to 3rig. Vprley r̂e v/ere unetle tt get anything with v/hich tc treat the sick a.t all. Later, we were ftreed "t參 p"banc鲁n the caap on account pf its "b?.d condition end lack of \i?ater- ,f The conditions described v/ere coiomon tt all. the camps the witness lived in, except thpt hturs of vork v-ere ntri^lly long p.nd increaibly arduous. Later r.t ‘ Thaiu&aziat, nearly 30 men vrere killed fncl the witness VAS V ôundccL BY allied air attack.乙here WPS no distinctive signs 參n the c m p to indicate it ctntained Prisoners of IPT. j±t Hetpu, sick men vere ftreed to v^ork.Ihe Japanese Camp Ctmandant on one occrsion, ordered two ff his subordinptes t# kill £ They Page 3. refused vrhereupon the nc.ant himself si.ot the P/. vho fortunrtely wps only injured. c) Prosecution Document nunalDersd 5041, the affidavit of Dr. C. R. Eichards, "being offered for ic.entificatior., the marked excerpt s thereof are proc'.uced in eyidence. This documieiit states thp.t in August,1943, the vdtness at 80 Kilo Canp et iiperon^. There vrere 200 Allied T/l in a filthy hospital ceup* The rpin continually drenched the,men. there were no fit men in this cf^to to look after the sick. The average deaths were "between "two p.nc 1 . six cla.ily ?.nd sick men hed. to carry their comrades to the grave. ぞ . T h e Jappxi^-se refused to the vdtness to look after the sick. loot given to th^m レrs a tiny amount of rice, kedicel supplies vere only obtained "by "barter, such rs a. Ketch for e "bottle of iodoform. "The policy of the Jpppnese Commeoider in that exee WPS th&t v^hilst men were working they vould receive food, "but PS soon as they "oecaae ill they were "witten off" and were sent do TO to this oa.rticulpr hosoital to live there tc die. I crn iiaagine nothing more appalling thpn conditions under v/hich these men lived and died- It V/PS in effect a living aor^ue. 11 d) Prosecution document nuntered 5C38A, the Af土 idpvit of ijt. Col. G. L> is offered for identification, pnd the marked excerpts thereof, produced in evic.ence^ This Afficlp.vit stetes thet rt 26 rnd 75 Kilo Cr.mps on the rrilvey, Kcrerii Camp Guards inc.iscriininrtely beet up prisoners. ^orking hours were long m d in the reiny serson, men often worked in nuci up to their knees. They hrd no change of c lo thing- .at 105 Kilo Op.nv, men suffered grertly from dysentery, nalari?. end tilcers. G-uards fcunc f> fpvcurite met hoc. of punishment in kicking en u^cer. There ^ere 158 deaths in seven months ？t this cemp out rf p force of less ths.n 1,G0〇 men. At l>mrrka.n during 1944, dysentery, fever a.nd malnutrition caused mpny deaths. E v i d e n t i a r y D o c u m e n t K o . 5 2 0 6 a . r、 ' : •，. ' INTEENALIOKAL MILITAi.Y T R I B U N A L FOR ThE E A S T No> 1 , T L E U I M I T E D 5 T A T 5 S O F A 1 - E R I C A ， and or- s 9 - A G A I N S T - A K A K I , S A D A O , and o r s . ェ , E R E D E M C K H U G L BASKF01.D, make oath and say as f o l l o w s : 1 . M y A r m y ntunber is NX70685s r a n k , C h a p l a i n / C a p t a i n : full n a m e , F r e d e r i c k H u g h B a s h f o r d； 2/4 C C S . A I F : h o m e a d d r e s s , 3 W y a r g i n e F l a t s , The E s p l a n a d e , B a l m o r a l , N e w South Wales,, 2 . On 1 5 . 3 . 4 3 at T H A I H A Y A T C a m p , I interviewed P O W N o . 2 8 6 7 , Fte BELL A . J . , A I F . A t thax time he was confined after being recaptured following his escape on 12,2,43» A t that time he had n o k n o w l e d g e that h e was under sentence of d e a t h , nor did I i . ave any such knowledge, He was, in fact, executed at 0815 hours i on ID 4 3.43 一 the day after I interviewed him« So far as エ em aware jhe was g i v e n n o t r i a l , 3 . A b o u t 14 days prior to 1 3 . 1 2 . 4 2 , the •undermentioned D u t c h p e r s o n n e l escaped from Japanese captivity f r o m 1/i/EGALIE Camp (approximately 8 k m s from Thambyiizayat) s- ~ C a p t . J . H . W . De EOOHEJ.ENT C a p t . F . A . II. ixAETEi,IKK L t , G . A . L E M I M S ！ 4-. These officer s v/ere s u b s e q u e n t l y captured ； the officers were executed by a firing party under Lt. KAITO about 0815 hours on 1 3 . 1 2 . 4 2 . 5 . On 2 7 . 1 2 . 4 2 , the u n d e r m e n t i o n e d D u t c h p e r s o n n e l were executed for escaping from 陋 G A L I E C a m p : - S g t . T h . i i . V A N L A A S E K Pte . A . N . J . VIlEDEVOOGD F t e H .上.. N E I L E S S E N 6 . On 1 3 . 1 2 . 4 2 N X 6 9 0 0 5 F t e W H I T F I E L D G . H ” A I F , arrived a t T h a m b y u z a y a t C a m p . Le had escaped some w e e k s before f r o m K a n d a w c a m p , r o u g h l y k i l o m e t r e s f r o m T h a m b y u z a y a t , Our M e d i c a l officers were of opinion that W h i t f i e l d w a s n o t m e n t a l l y soiand » Brigadier V a r l e y interviewed N a i t o for the purpose of discovering w h a t would be the p u n i s h m e n t of a m a n who escaped and gave h i m s e l f u p , but n o t being m e n t a l l y s o u n d . N a i t o informed the Brigadier that such a m a n would n o t be s h o t . W h i t f i e l d was n o t confined but allowed to r e m a i n in the h o s p i t a l h u t . Eviclentiery D o c m e n t N o . 5206a Page 2. i 7 • Shortly before 1100 hours on 14 0 12,42, a rarty of Japanese j arrived at this hut, asked which was Whitfield, and upon being j told that Whitfield was outside boiling a billy" , the man who j was boiling the billy end who v^as 3 in fact, Whitfield, was seized ！ and his h a n d s tied beiii.ia h i j b a c k , and h i s eyes blindfolded and the man immediately taken to the place of execution - a ceme.tery nearby - and executed a few minutes later c There was no semblance of a t r i a l . I conducted the burial service over his remains on thst d a y • ] SWORN before me at Sydney on the Fourth day of September, 1946, (Sgd) F. Iu BASHFORD /s/ A . J, Man_sfie3.d Judge of Supreme Court of Queensland. f ゆ I 汗 h Doc. N o . 5034 Page 1 た INTERNATIONAL KTLTTA.RY TRIBUNAL FOR TFF FAB EAST N o . 1 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND ORS. - A G A I N S T - ARAKI, SADAO, AND ORS, I, C ^ I S T O P F E R MONTAGUE BLACK, make oath and say as follows: 1 . I was NX7084, Lt-Col. Christopher Montague Black, H . Q . "Blackburn Force" when I was taken prisoner in Java on the surrender of t>e Blackburn Force in Marcト1942» I entered Bicycle Camp and remained tトere until October 1942, 2 . I left Batavia with Col. Williams in about October 1942, about 1400 or 1500 men being in the party. We proceeded by sea to Singapore,, From Singapore we went again by sea to Hsngoon. We were tトen transferred to another s M p , 3 . We disembarked at Moulmein, where I left Col. Williams and proceeded to TPAHBAZIAT. I was then sent back to Moulmein to get nominal rolls, but エ did not see what condi- tions were like there• Tトe men bad been placed in a geol and I t M n k ty-ey were given food. 4 . I returned then to TT T AMBAZIAT and remained at this camp for about 10 days. I was then required to split tトe force into 2 groups, one to be commanded by Col. Williams, and the other by myself e Cola Williams brought M s force on to TFAMBAZIAT from Loulmein, and went out to 30 Kilo camp (TANYIN), and I was placed in a camp a further 10 Kilcs out. Conditions at this camp were shocking。 Tトere was an insufficiency of water and food was very short. The hospital was in a g,ully, end the camp l?ad been occupied previously by Burmese and was generally in very bad condition. The sick rate rapidly increased and エ t M n k at one stage there were about 130 men in hospital, and atout 90 to 100 had very bad dierrVoea out of a total strength of 675. Two men died from dysentery, but despite my representations to tVe Japanese l?nce-corporal, who was in charge of the camp, and to Brig. Varley we were unable to get snyt>ing with wMc"h to treat tVe sick at all. Later, we were forced to abandon tl-e camp on account of its bed condition and lack of w?ter. 6 . When I left Bicycle Carip I wss suffering from pellagrous D o c . No. 5034 Page 2 diarrhoea snd my sickness continued in 40 Kilo Camp. I mensged to get to TFALEAZIAT to a conference with tトe Brigadier and I W8S placed in hospital. T v a t was prior to t^e amondon- ment of the 40 Kilo camp. 險 7 . Tl-e camp was taken over by Mejor G.A.C. Kiernsn wトile I w?.s in hospital. We were given rice and e smell qupntity of vegetables, T>-e food scale was so low that tトe Jspenese commander M m s e l f used to try and buy at M s own expanse e. dozen eggs to give to the most seriously ill. The-rours of work £\t that time were in my opinion reasonable. Sick men were not forced to work. W e had ？ medical officer, but no medical supplies at all. Beri Beri end Pellagra began to show up very badly. 8. I was in hospital for about 8 weeks ?.nd then resumed command of tVe force. In the meantime, t^e force he.d moved from 40 Kilo to 2 6 Kilo (KUM-NIT-KWAI) which ト s d been a coolie camp and was in a shocking state of repair, I was informed by the Japanese guard, wトo took me back, that it Tbad been abandoned some 2 dpys before because of an outbreak of cholera e The Hits had been repaired slightly when I arrived, but conditions were still very bad indeed so far as accomiriodation was concerned. Major Kiernsn, who ?ad been in command, told me that Ye T-p.d found it necessary to burn a large portion of the camp for sanitary re?sons； it hed previously been occupied by Burmese natives. 9« The food sgsin consisted only of rice end vegetables in smell quantities. We did not receive anything like our scale of rations. 1 0 . It wrs st tbis can;p thet I first met the Japanese quotr system of work. The commander of the camp, w v o is now derd, used to enforce t M s system and made sick men go out to work. There was e lot of sickness but no medic?l supplies. Sub- sequently, tie meat issue we.s increased when t^e camp was made a staging cemp for cattle being driven along tVe line. TVe Sergeant who took the piece of the officer in charge also used to buy us supplies of eggs. 1 1 . D u r i n g my stay in TFAMEAZIAT, Col. Ramsay brought M s force to 26 Kilo and I joined M m there. The ト o u r s of work v/ere increased and become very long； men were made to work from 8 a.m. and did not get brck to the camp u n t i l 1 0 or II p.m. The work was of m exceptionally heavy nature, but despite protests thpt vjerc made to tVe Japanese no relief VP.S given. As a matter of fact, Ce.pt. BLAU was beaten by one of t"he guards out st tYe rpil?j?.y line for protesting® 1 2 . From 2 6 Kilo エ went to 75 Kilo but I wrs not there long enough to observe tYe conditions under v^ich the men D o c . No. 5034 Page 3 were living. The guards began to beet t、e prisoners from tire first day of arrival, 1 3 . ェ wf.S then returned to EETPU, 30 Kilo. I established P. hospitr.l which was subsequently trken over ty p Dutch officer rfter 4 weeks• 1 4 . I a g a i n w e n t t o TTALBAZIAT and r e m a i n e d t h e r e u n t i l 12 June 194-3. Fere ve vicre bedly bobbed by Americrn plr.nes, es a result of w M c h there were between 25 end 2 8 deaths, ?nd quite ？. number of wounded, including myself. T v e r e v?cre no distinctive signs on the cac;p to slhov/ that it contained prisoners of war c 15« エ did not see m y great hardships suffered there， p.nd the food was repsoneble. Lieut. FAGUCHI v/es the Jr.prnese medicsa officer ？t TFAB BAZIAT. Crpt. Griffin informed me he had seen a large quantity of Jeprnese medicfl supplies in TFALBAZIAT, but that t^ere w?.s great difficulty in getting them into camp. The Brigcdier mrde many protests both verbally and in writing to NAGATOIuO witト regard to conditions, but be received no reply at nil. 1 6 . W h i l s t I vms i n t ^ e camp tトe r e w e r e many e x e c u t i o n s , including thrt of Private Whitfield。 T>is man had disr.ppcercd from t v e 4 Kilo camp and one morning it vias reported to me thr.t he had come into our cr.mp ?.t TFAMBAZIAT. I sav; v i m rnd he p.sked me T/トrt I could d o . I asked M m hov; f?.r Ye トsd got i n M s e s c ? p e rnd he t o l d me t h a t Ine had r c p c h c d Kongo o n . Fe said that felt he should give himself up r.nd I said tVpt I thought that was the best thing, and t v a t I would discuss it with Brig. Vp.rley. One of tVe most serious things in a Jpprnese prison carjp was to have one m?n more than should be t v e r e becruse the Japanese always suspected thst ？ spy vrrs being hidden there. After e good deal of discussion and ty ？rrengement witト the M.O.'s, Brigadier Vrrley reported tYet Whitfield had come into tl-c cr.mp and that he was mental, TVis was supported by the mcdical officers. At tトat time Col. KLGATOMO hsd gone to Singapore, and the Group Commander vies Lieut. NITO. Fe went and saw W v itfield rnd sr.id トe would l e a v e M m t h e r e t o r e s t f o r a f e w d ? y s r n d the,t he would t h e n send "him back to v i s camp. Subsequently Lieut. FAGUCTI ? the medical officer, came to see Whitfield and said thet be v;as not mental at all. Next morning WMtficld was cooking over a fire when a number of Jap?nesc soldiers rusVed up to M m , bound M m , and took M m over to t^e cecietery about 100 y?rds distant and s^ot M m . I actually saw him bound up r.yself pnd t?ken ？wey, and t>-en >-eard rifle shots. 1 7 . In cases of execution sueト as this, the J?p?nese usually took Col. Fpmilton over to see tl°e body end tトis vje.s D o c . N o . 5034 Page 4 パ done in the case of Privete V.'Mtfield. v;as buried by ?.n Austr?lian perty. The Je.pane.se elwftys ellov/ed buriel service ？.nd I actually attended this pcrticular one; a cVaplain wes also p r e s e n t . I think it was NITO who reported t v e death to B r i g , Varley5 I know that NITO told hin it vres as r. result of e telegram received from C o l . NEGATOLO t^r.t he g?.ve the order for tV-e execution» I was present during t M s conversation myself. There were plso executions of Dutchmen, v^o h?.d escaped, rnd altogether I think three Austrrlians were executed, including Bell, V/Mtfield, end one otトei. l 8 0 I vp.s then sent to a camp at 18 K i l o , v:>"cre C p l . FUJIYAfi. v;?s in cVarge. I was taken very sick tVere with Major Fisher. Conditions were appalling; food was very short, and the accommodation was entirely unsatisfactory. i>ere wss no room to do dressings except in the passages of the tuts, through which t^e r?in vmtcr rushed inches deep, end the facilities provided for men v/ith dysentery vere • absolutely s v ocking. 1 9 . From 18 Kilo I v;ps moved back to HETPU. T^e cemp y-ad been abandoned, end the roof of the buildings トad fallen in; the wトole place was in e strte of disrepair e We lre.6 a large number of very heavy sick, S v o r t l y after v.ie arrived, Lieut, NITO c?iae to t?kc charge. Fe forced sick men to repair huts, setting time limits on tトe y;ork which v/ere entirely insufficient for the work which ？-od to be done. Despite Ry protests, he persisted in his treatment of irxn at t^e revolver point. Lieut, Fcaly was blamed for ?ny trouble pt rll r.nd he ccrtpinly v/ould have shot M m hrd it not been for my sending bim eway in time. Supplies, wトicト v;crc mcgrc, consisted only of rice end vegetsblcs, end occasionelly a little meat w v i c > used to arrive by train between 10 o'clock and midnight and v/^ich NITO forced v e r y sick men to carry a kilo from tトc train to the csmp in the rainy season. T v i s applied, in fact, to all tie: food. Men used to fall dovm and injure 1:ト£1113€1乂£；5， rs t^ere. vas no track and mud cvcryvv'Vere bctv?een the csmp end the railv/f.y station, NITO continued drinking and on meny occasions he informed me tvp.t Ye would have to kill somebody. One night Ye caught S g t . M a j o r Coombes of 2/4 C . C . S . et the l a t r i n e . Fe took M m to tトe gurrdトouse and the J a p m c s c guard comnander informed m e l?ter that he Vad been ordered by NITO to bayonet h i m , but tVet he had r e f u s e d . NITO ty~en callcd another * member of t v e guard, took Coombes dovm to tht ccmetcry end ordered hin to s^oot M m . Tl^e guard age in refused ？/Vercupon NITO srid " W e l l , i f you won't kill him I t;ill» B Fe then took out Vis revolver and fired tv:o sトots tvrough Combe ‘ s b a c k . Fortunrttly ^e was not killed。 NITO bad accuscd Vim of trying to escape end &s a result, for t^e next six weeks， I トFd to petrol t v e camp ？t night vitY N I T O , who vbs e.lv/rys Doc. N o . 5034 Page 5 d r u n k , with a lorded revolver in m y stomech. A t that time I v ecl just bad e n operation on m y erm and I. appealed to NITO to allow me to go to bed as ェ vms ill, but fe would not do so. Fc fortede me to report tYc mettcr, but I managed to do s o . 20. ；.t this time, even NITO's own guards sllicd with us ？g?inst him* With tVe aid of t^c gue.rd \:ic managed to got b message through to CoL NEGATOIiO end Brig. V?rley ？nd ?.s a result NITO was removed. 2 1 . I "fben wont bnck to 105 Kilo comp v^erc Col• R?insry wss in conmnnd. I remained there until just rftcr CVristnr.s 194-3* Conditions v/ere very 22. From 105 Kilo I went to P cemp cr.llcd NAKOM PATOM, . v i p . s a very large hospital camp, very well built. Con- ditions were re?.sonoble with the exception thrt p. guard nick nemcd "BUSTY" used to boat t v e prisoners •unmercifully, including Le jor Williams Wynn, xiYo s given e. pr.rticulsrly severe berting; V^en I endeavoured to intervene I WF.S also given p. very brd be?ting. 23« T^e Jppanose forced some of the sick to ヮork at NAKQ P^-TOH rnd t^ere were no racdicr.l supplies to treat tトose v/Vo v;ere ill. 2 4 . W h e n Red Cross supplies r.rrivc.d, lr.rge quantities \7ert stolen "by t^e J e p m e s c guards rmd I em certain ？ t v - e cognisr.ncc of Col. IS TT I \&o vies tトc-n the comiiiander. T?kcn and sworn at SYDNEY on tトe Tenth day of September 1946 Before me ノs/ A.J. .-Icnsfiela Judge of Supreme Court of Queensland Ttio averse dc-'-ths ucrc fron tuc to six per day, C.nd sick LXOI carry their ceud ccurados tc the gravesc. 6 # jlic Japanese refused to ALLCT； us to look cJTtor thxcso sick non, but we iJAnagccl tc c° 己own socroily and GXC tnon« Tiioy v;crc in chaise cf cn '̂jncriocji nodical officer who net c.blo to ^ot a preper ^rip of the circunstr-xccs • 7 . The feed given tc these ::cn consisted o.-f r.icc in very sr:二 11 Quantities # Tho oii】y nodi cal supplies were soourcd by bcrter with thq_J such as a wctr.h for a bet tie of lodcf on:a/" I believe thc.t the Japanese tkens。ユvos had ncJical supplies vmicii could hしv。been rzide available for the priscnorso 9» On one cccasicn it uas nocessrxy fcr an c^Liputation tc be per- fcmicd on cnu cf th^sc putiunt-So I/pjor icrants end エ L^nr.^cd to heve the I X J I transferred to cur cai:p V/ithout the laioriodge of the Japanese t but Jiyidcntiary Docunent jj. 5041• INTERNムTIOKAL I/ELITiJRY TRIBUTtJ, FOR THE FiJJ E.JST NO, I, TEE UlIZTUD ST^TiS OF 'JVIERIC^, ORS - U S T - AR'Jlj：, ‘U0,i^V 0P.S. If CIL'JttSS HO'TL-I'® BRC2OTT mC^KoG of Sydney in tho 的at。cf ITou Soufch rales, I/pdical pracvi.,パ'（);•ニ,r..‘Yu oこ"ti ao.d say ad fo.'..ior:3： 1. I ™as N.'C 7 02?3 Cap'!'aii： GJiarlos pov/.'iand Broraley picjha;r'is v attached to 2/13 ./j-iŝ ra-lj.̂ x ？î l'l wlxoxi I Doaarao し prisoner cf of the Japanese at sj.ngcpcfc 5 on lj February 1942。 2. Between the 30th July and 3CMi August 1943 I 玎じs ct 80 Kilo Coup (ixPEHOrG) n t h a pcxby of about 900 ^ustralicns belonging to KO. 3 Branch• 3# uhen ¥/e arrived there, there norc approxirr.tcly 2CO Australians, Ancricans, .md Duニ。hun bulona'in^ "to FCr> 5 B^^i'^h sufferii^; very badly fron Dysontory, B^-ri B^Ti, jypiaria, and Tropical ulccrs. 4 . They wore in a hospitc.1 canp about .300 yards fron where wo wcre^ "The- accoixiodation しt this c ^ p ccn^iaied of ixitap hats, wliich were in a filthy ccndriicn. The huts avore net sufficjcnt; to icccp cut t-he rこin, and the r.icn tjoto con"ninually drenched• itcrc v/ore no fit nen in this hospital coup tc lock after the sicke c t Evidentiary D。cunent 2 during the operation they found out and cone end watched^ マ e anacsthized the patient with a srxili orxunt of anaosthetic, which ve had, and used a hacksaw for the cperation 9 10. The policy cf the jcpaiicsG C-ooxjid^r in thrt .xea yas that whi丄st nen yerc working v.h3y would rccoivc i'cod ？ buc as soon こ:s thoy bccrj.ic ill they T7crc written off “ and were sent dov/ii to this particuicir hospital to live there to die. 11磨 I can. irmgine nothing norc appalling then ccndrticns under uhich those mn lived and dicd # lz T7cs in e.ffoot a l.i^ing Dcrgueo S\70RN before no at S3 r ^ney on tho ) Fifth day of s^pteubcr 1946• ) (signed) C.R.B, HICHARDS. (S5.gned) H I S I I K judge cf suprcrje (jcart cf quocnslrjicli -Evidentiary Document N o . 5〇38A. 》ぐし⑶ Page 丄《 ェNT脳ATIONAL lilLITiiKY M B U M L FOK ThE FAR EAST. N O . 1 TEE UNUTED STATES OF AI.iEI.ICA, and ors. - A G A I N S T - ARAKI, SADAO, and ors. 1 I, GEOKGE ERNEST KH.SAY of S-dney in the State of New South Wales, I make oath and say as follows s- ! 1 , I was NX34999, L t . Colonel George Ernest Ramsay, 2/30 ‘Australian Infantry Battalion when I v/as captured by the Japanese ‘at Singapore in February ? 194-2. I ' 2 . ェ was transferred to the 2/18 Battalion on a day in April, 1942 ； I left there with A Force which was a force of 3000 -under Brigadier ；Varley. We were to move over seas to an unknown d e s t i n a t i o n .ェ •、was in command of 1 B n . of A Force • It consisted of about 850 all r a n k s . We embarked on the CELEBES L\AKU with 1000 troops which included my own 1 Bn and a detachment from the 2/4 CCS, The ‘remaining 2000 embarked on the T0YASHI LAhU imder Brigadier Varley. ：Before leaving we were told that the force would go to the same ;destination as the other one but in fact 1000 men were dropped at • Victoria Point on the extreme tip of lower Burma, and the next 1000 | with me were dropped at IsJEIiGUI. i 3» The remaining 1000 imder Brigadier Varley were disembarked at ！ TAVOY. We got to Tavoy in late August or September, 194-2. Bi igadier 1 Varley was still there with portion of the original 1000 but he j was in a separate camp and I was denied official access to h i m . ：5. On leaving TAVOY we moved to THANBUYZYAT by rail and also on foot. This was in December, 194-2. Colonel NAGAT0M0 had his i headquarters at THANBIJYZYAT and when I was at THANBUYZYAT Brig, j Varley had established his own headquarters there. He stayed in j TLAI^BUIZYAT for a night or two and then moved to 26 Kilo Camp. 1 Litherto we had been with Jep front line troops; but on arrival at 26 Kilo camp we had_our first experience v/ith Koreans as guards. Ihey were _pretty_bad. 6 . A Jsp sergeant named FAKAT0 was there； a Jap engineer officer also was there and they were insistent on a certain number of our men oing out to work each day. I wrote to them several times and made verbal protests against the numbers of men being required and setting out the reasons why their requests were impossible of fulfilment. He threatened on several occasions, and did on several occasions parade the whole camp and selected the men himself, This j wss the Jap officer. We were sometimes, however, able to substitute jiYic'en 4 : j ary Docurent No -ラ'O38A, raee •^mi . •'-气一.• . • • — - I ； o r tnepe men other nan vrh'.r ; :..]e 1J..0, regardec 1 . as r i c t e ^ -ハュ.•.レ： ones picked out by the Jap oiiuo：- ̂ Througnoag, the question 01：* work quotas was one of daily dispute and trcufci丄e. ? . From 26 Kilo csmt) ws rr.r-e.J to Kile camp, called 1.IEIL0E, '1'here vie struck a .....ノブハく：て I . ん g u c < r d t h a n at 26 camp、 There was a lot of jnoiscriiiii.n;.te I'-：shing there though, no serious injuries were s u s c a i n e d T r i e health oi' thereじn was poor, Ken would be required to leave the camp early ]n chs morning and would not return until 2 or 3 the nexr, morniixg 5 taen they weald be compelled to leave agsin the ssma shor uf v after davm. Occasionally protests Co the Jsps res^I^sd in some of the men being given an ex bra hour or '^n of re 3.し The rainy season there, men often worked 1 in nrad up to their knees anc'. they had no change of clothing . Me sis were only f d.U"" e l .8. The Jap engineer soldiers ill - treated, the men a lot by hittin£ ！ them with bamboos, their f isv's and rifle dux to, tiir ough no fault of the men but due to the impatier.ee of the Jsps who could ngt understand that the men did not understand what was being requited of them all of the time。 9 • Jsp Coinmander there was Lieut 5 HO SHI. I had my own force -: iiamsay force and Black and Green forces. 1 0 . Korean guar_ds apparently under Instrnction.^ from the camp coEimsnG'er oi'xen forced men cut to work, liOSr丄エ wouid often promise that they would not be sent out wltr.o-cx the concuri ence of crur but he failed to pass thoje inscr^otic-ns on to his Korean administrative staff apparently, ari;/V/ayo So., when the work party ffas formed in the morning. he wo'ald r〕oc be a'^ilable, and the Koreans would deny that they had received in.̂ trL'CT-j'.ons .from their ooimander. On one occasion I wen.c; "up and f ô nicl h.lin in the grounds iust as a party of cur men just se丄:scted were being sent o u t I reminded him of his promise, peiateel out tiie men to bin, and he ordered them back to ca^p 0 Howe ver, he seeciecl to take great care subsequently that he was never about the place when other parties were going out. In this camp we hacl about 10 deaths. 11 s We moved to 105 Kilo cemp, called AUNGANAUNG, in April or 二ay 194-3, and remained ~hore for seven months» It was there we 3'orr.ck tropical ulcers pretty badly, a lot of the men getting then-. I^ore was a hospital back at 55 Kilo celled the Death Csmp, Some men were sent back there for anputation t There were over 100 ymp^bation cases ancl some died after the operation 0 The II.0s 0 at ]05 Kilo camp were Captains Cvjnming, Kiggjn ; Anderson and White; th 'vere a.1.1 . Cur camn in s'Lrength vsried between the 2000 c.no rfOO mark, Of my criginal foi.ee of 1000 men I lost 12(3; I uut my deaths down ax 155 c There were 15Q deaths at the 105 Kilo caap from the mr.xcd force in the seven months c There v/ere instance of men beirxp： knocked about oy the 0'̂ .ps and -cne Koreans with tamooos •:nd other things. necessitating rheclical treatment, Koreans were particularly brutal. If they wanted to punish a man they would Evidentiary Docubtnt N o . 5〇38A. > strike hin anywhere at all,anc 1 ： on half heeled ulcers. They 'have kicked men on the shins and the shins had ulcers on them. I .saw Japs screw a stick into a man's n a v e l . L t . HOSHI was coirmander I there• 12. Ulcers extended from knoe to ankle, exposing the shinbone for 8 or 9 inches* They went b l a c k .エ have seen ulcers cover a whole foot. The question of iodiform was a pressing one throughout and once one of my men said he had been offered a small jar of iodiform by a Jap in exchange for his watch. He had been pesterec"! several times to exchange his watch but as it was a present from his mother he did not want, to let it g o , However, in order to relieve his friend 1 s suffering fvcm ulcers he finally let it go for the bcttle cf iodiform from the Jap, I told the Jap Commander that the bottle could only have been obtained by illegal means by his men, The exchange was made in the presence of the Jep Commander 0 The iodiform was in a bottle about inches by 3 inches。 Our li»0, said there was enough in it to last several weeks • There v/as no label on it, 1 3 . At the 105 camp there was a let of dysentery and some malaria. We had 3 to 4 cholera deaths there. There were no medical supplies we tried to get emetine from as far back as 1IELGUI but never could. 1 4 . In December, 194-3, after completion of the railway, we moved 丨 to TAIiAB.KAN. J i 15. There was a statement thst the railway had to be put down at 1 all costs - responsibility for that was with C o l . K A G A T 0 M 0 , v/ho ！ was i/c of N o , 3 Branch, which took in our A Force, and C o . ! Williams 1 force which had come from Java. 116. Later Col. NAKALULA, who took Col. KAGAT0I.I(!?S place, spoke iin similar terms. He said we were only a rabble army and that |we were dependent on the Jap Imperial Army for our safety. ！NAGATOl'IO had once read out some such statement in Japanese a.ncl ；then his interpreter read it out in English. There are copies • of this； copies wei e left with u s . I 1 7 . NAGAT0H0 came out to the camp on one or two occasions, but did not go right through. At no tine did he inters3ew me in the latter stages, or ask if I had any complaints generally 0 Neither ！of these two Jap Commanders ensured that their instructions, j whatever they were after I had had early inter vie v/s with them, were ；carried out. Perhaps they all of the time had no intention of |giving these instructions, There always seemed to be.a general desire on the part of Japanese Commanders to evade responsibility. •JiosHi would send his batmen out, if we called, to say Ho ski was “ jindisposed and could not be disturbed. Once we arrived too (quickly for him; we got onto the verandah of his cottage and through the window saw hin just getting into bed T clothed, with his boots on. He came out subsequently and saw u s , But that was Evidentiary r，〇cunent N o . 5CH8A Page 4, ••IS d o d g e . <1.8. On 1 January, 1 9 4 4 , we reached T A L A K K M . It was allggod to be a rest cemp, Food for the first few months was a considerable improvement on anything we had had。 There were not many troops there when we arrived, but troops cene all of the time out of the jungle fr on the ；jungle carps and by Ilay there must have been about 5000 troops t h e r e * 1 9 . There were constant irritation tactics and minor bashings. 1 These were daily occurrences s At one time the camp commander was \luATSUSAKI• K o indication was ever given to mc by the Japs of any change in the ir corjnenc! t h e r e . 2 0 . In A u g u s t , 1 9 4 4 , the Jr.ps re-01 ganised the ir groups . Colonel / A n d e r s o n , w h o had taken F r i g . Varley's p l a c e , took over c omEiand from m e • 2 1 . T h e r e were forr.e deaths at Tsmarkan 0 In the "black month" we lost about 2 a day5 we took dead bodies straight from the trucks. Dysentery and fever end malnutrition caused most of the deaths. We had n o quinine or atebriru There was a Jap LI.O. at NAGATOI.iO f, s headquarters who occesionelly visited the camp, and oncc more in their usual style they agreed thst the men were very sick; but I was told by the comnender later thet the men were fit to work because his 11,0 a had so reported • The name of the Jap E . 0 , was KIGUChl. The M . 0 , at Tamarldian was NO BOS皿，_JL_believe neither, of them had any medical—background» HIGUCHI was a dentist and U U H J g A W A a vet么 Our senior li.u, "w&s C o T , H a m i l t o n . T o r l n o s l of 'the time, before Col e He nil ton, Ha j or Kobbs was our M , 0 . at TAilAFiKAK 4 2 2 . We remained at TAIIAh丽 until F e b r u a r y , 1 9 ^ 5 , when they separated officers from O r s . 23 a We were moved, to KANBULI; a party of 3,000, including Australian, B: itish, American and Dutch• All officers， They moved the officers on a 6-dey trip by rjver and on foot to a new csmp, and parties went in batches of 5〇0 o Five parties already had left a i n t e r v a l s of 5 clays each« I reached BANGKOK on the njg ht we were notified that the war vms over. The camp site was on the other side of BANGKOK^ 24. Lieut NITO, Chief of Staff of NAG-0T0M0, once visited our camp. Normally he had been drinking before his a r r i v a l . H e told Lla j or Green, C o l . B l a c k and me that he could promise us an honourable death, and that if things went bad he would shoot us himself. / - — /o / G , E • R s r s a v — — TAKEN AND SW0KN AT SYDNEY ON TIIE TENTH D/il OF SEt TEI.IBER," 1946. BEFORE LE / s / R. L . Deasey, J 6 F . 一 Document No. 5444 Paga N o . 1 SITTQFSIS O F 巡 B I it i.!ix alio S エ“丄 C* P/VJ" sent to Si'ui： Sector of Purina-Siai.： E^iliTa:^. a. Prosecution DocuLient numbered 5〇59A，the Affidavit It. Col. rLJ-F^ is now offered for identification and the marked excerpts produced in evidence. This document states th-.t in ^pril^ 19ム3， 7,000 P/1/ ware moved frorr； Singapore to Siつ:.Th.i trains cvorcrcv^ded^ food irragi:larly supplied y water vr̂ .s in?.d3ou ite .,nd s^nit^i'y conditions either non-existent or revolting. From 3nmpong tho force vfns uarched about 165 i.13 las by night. Thsre was no transport to c-irry hap.vy equipment. Th b nun beaten on th3 narch by thvi guards inc； the sick compelled ^o go on. The staging cunps en route '•\ r ere filthy. In 丄丄-i:7 1943 the cor.iiuenced work on the riilvn.j-. "In all tlie working c:料.3 cn the Railway into which our party iroved^ the acconrjiod^.tion hn.d not been caDpl^t'3ci md th-3 buildings h .ci no roofs, Thj Monsoon v\jiis \rare then f"illiiig. The food in th-3 3v3 cMaps ；vps just 夕ice and onion v/iter or rice ind witer. All tho tir.‘e our boots T "er。f.'illing to pidces，-md there vn.s no ropl^caiuent oi clothing or footgear. The work on the line vns very h \rd on boots ：�s ./or-a in mud ^nd ;r:t3r -11 dny long. I ".tar on v»'s3 h':d to b^ll^st thi line with stents and tha nen nrd to vnlk across thosvi stonos îc! work in cu^rries without boots. Th。hours of wor：: viriod fron teolv j to twon•しy per Tt'•、ハjIv̂j hours °»nci fourteen hours por dqy v;orj tho i:;ost common. Norimlly th- v/cuid bo out f and b^ck rt 10 p.r.u /o ĥ .d no diys off. I'hj first off ,rj h-\d wh」n tho E-ilwiy ,;as through, -nd tlio lin^ wハs joined no zr our cつnip ^bout 19th cr 20th Sept A'bov. ..'J h\d st^.RTOCLつbjut 1厶IH or 15th I - H Y , I N D V̂ O worked night n fter ni厂ht right thrcugh tc without � bron.k. For muntns 飞i:d juonths thj nun did not s ^ thoir c^mp in d ivli^ht. ift^x* d 。jid n^rxy tii.os : criy, I rnd pro tost s, tha codicil Officor m d d protests っ n J tho “djut、iit mへ dd j .TO tests in し n ondo^vour to gjt the niLdbors ji iaon working roduc jd. Nothing would stop tho J^p^noso, Thoy s ̂ id tluy v/juld driva tho tレ wc rK aiic ユf they vr^ntod D>jciL.iC3nt No. 5444 P^ge No. 2 thcusmd non for work th^y v• culd got へ thous "-nd uon, irrsispactiva of thoir physic .il condition. Rice uith a f。w picc3 of fish in it，wニs the food ration. In tho rly st^g^s rico f airly plentiful^ but •飞s soon 飞 nan want sicl: the ration w^s cut clown to one third of tho ？nount givon to i vvorking î nii. Sick ivjra then st^rvod arid it w-̂ .s impossible to build th^Li up i^^in During tho ccursa of tho building of tha liii3 I was told by the J-\panjs.j thrt it wis -i::ilit气ry Railway, 。iid as soon as tho line through 丄 s、w tho trains /itn horses^ ^uiis 3 trucks^ ^.nu'innitlon， ate. Tho Forco I w~s with vn.s d l i d !? F n Force Until July エ vns with roncl T s Battalion.. • •and than with 飞 special pnrty.,. .^t a gcriei^l ĉ iiip just south of illiCKÊ In Juno pond ‘ s Batt-'.lion arrived -t KDi.iCOIT八 ivhare tho p halted for t".vro C13-S. The troops . し r e billotod in huts which had boon evacuatad thj provicus c!飞;7 on account of cholera doaths. Tne huts v/^ri indoscrib^-bly filthy anc". protests which v/oro n^do to thj only c".usaa tha fore3 to realise th'it they vraro officially placed on tha S^JTIO loval？is B u m o s o Coolies. .JI ^.ppliciticn for tools with which to clean up th3 filth brought tho roply thr.t nono wn.s ^.v^.il^blo^ dospito the f:ct th/vb hunclrods cf sh :v^ls 可丄d chun— kols h:d BAON brought frcn UirP& KONGuIT... Coolies w.飞lkod through tha huts，spニt, clofec^tod venitod 3Vorj^riior3„ Y^k cirts .̂nd yelling clrovos congrjg tad 飞1:thj ontr^nco. Y-«.ks wara t^kan through tho huts マn'.l th-jy dropped thoir jtn vrh3ro rico b-igs had to bo stor JC! ,丄 urPJTi, Dur-ilCUiî I in “ugust t;i3 l^trf.nos "woro fljodoc! by inc^ss Tit r^.in, On-j cf thoi. hid brokjn its buiks •？nd ^ filthy strĵ -i:； oozoci through th J c^ip ^r^a ^id p^sssd under tho floors of tho huts occupiod by thvi hospital. Outs id v3 クiid ovon insido tha huts wis quこt^uire, Thore w:~:s no reason for thj hospital to bu in tha position in which it was is thoro wns high ground v^horo it c^uld hrvj boen pl^.cjc. No pre visi on f^r ho spit -ili z it i on of tho fore j had been mdvi Dccwriont Fo • 5A44 丄：.レ，3 except N S;TI^.11 hospital c^ . I P at Ifi/iiR . which i,rへs sしoil 'っ.b,ndoncs r し rio uosts to -\llow fit n«jn to rar.,̂ in in c。ニ:p to inprov^ tho situ'^.ti^n vr-3T3 rjfusod 飞n'J all fit irun w^ro nっde tu work on construction, ^ y ^.tt-anpts to got tools "with which officers c. ulci do this \rcric r;ut with Yjr f y little success. "J ovon found it difficult to obtain。pick or sh^vol to dig graves for tho dead. In th。s^iie c cn th。10th .ugust chjlor^ br^kq out • Tho solectod by tho J^p .noso for tho iscl\tion h.:spitai i s:i n .ll c丄eたrod spac^ of l.)w lying ground cn tho rivor b'uak，whorj thj nud was ’iil:l。dJop -md tii J 」niy lix^d icconuod ̂ .tion n hut cap.iblu ^f hjlcin^ ru ii.orG th n .n thirtyァ p^tiants. Tho ranaindor ^f tho pv^rsormol placod in isol^tiai hid t.' bo qu rtorjg in t^nts and und^r tont flys which inv^.rip.bly laakad. IIo fit 二on woro fro jd from onginoor w、..rk t レ assist tho sicK in previa in g stagings to koep than, frvxi muddy ground 9 ĵid へ11 duti js jxcopt nursing had to be ”orfつrr.wcl tho "Personnel in is :lっticn. Kequosts fcr nor。sorvice- .̂ bl-3 tonts 飞nd tha r^loasa -f n-3n from wc-rk to ini..rov>j tho a r a n d uvan fcr » few additional toJIS ill not with tho SHJ result. The Jip \noso did n t occupy this h:)spit?l. The inst^ncos I h^ivj given ab.:>vj in•二ic•っ.tG tho type of つ : : I r b i n in thosj c\mps， o. c jpt th:t エ hrv^ n: t stross.3名 tha terrific crowding x-vhic", oxistod jvor^h-r^c Tl-î i.vjn h^ 1 nothing t「 xvo^r ^xcopt tho cl.?'t : "ing in which they xjjr̂ j c.^ptur JC 1 .̂ ĵig ucst ..f thハ”b h-id rotted r porislioc； during tho ncnthc tho nonsoon• ^f tho non v;orj to work with 、：nly a scu'ity pivjeo f cloth .und th」ir 1 jiiis. F.rco K^^Cquartors wjro c -nst-^ntlv asking fcr nodical supplies to ba br ,ught forvnrd^ but tho answer al/.:飞ンs giv^n wへs th^.t tho road t tho s.uth was L.-Lp-ass^blo, H^wjvjr^ w,.r uquipnont f \m, nurch^ndis^ for tho Nliiui shopkeepers v/^ro boinc, brought fcrv̂ .̂rcl in qu°.ntitios by rivor b, 、ts. Tho result wis th-it nodical supplies Y/ora prac- tio ̂.llj- njn-oxistent. エ hrvv\3 Ssjon ill tho bcn^s of ?. n m ! s foot axpesod by an ulc^r of' tho f'.;ot. X h ivg so^n tho bonos、-f ニ m f s exposed from tho r* D .'Cui.,ont Uo. 5444 Paga iJo, 4 laic-o t、 thj °n.i:J.o ^nJ I h n .vj saan 〜：？ハnTs ribs ci^osod by -in ulcer nn.'.or his . Th-j only tru^tujnt which c .:uld bじ givon n^s scraping with sh'\rr instruncjnts On taa 7th July pr .tost ^^^inst tho mitre^.tnant of tha inon wn.s f tし GJ：, XCIL-J, B Jil'O. This p jintod しut th°t 「,n the 3rd July, thj ;:v'rchod ut jf c*up 一t 0900 h-urs ^nc ^ft^r ploughing thr-ou t h hu ニ for fivj kil^aotr-js th^y cor.ir.vjncjd work "rt 1〇3〇 hours. Th」tニsk f jr th。d飞y for 135 しn irs 160 irjtrJS of corJurjying. This iiivjlvuo the r t h 。 nruci f^r a width cf 6 1 ̂ laying thu 1リご]x.—i"へinin 6 r jiiif rcing tlu ti.、.ck :「ith o^.rth inc.. stonas. P?.rti^s 、ンf tv3n to twelvj i:しn w^rj f ; rco ； t ン carry in th.j d^y sov^n logs 13 fojt l>ng 飞nc 10 t > 1.2 inches in ui-^tor a .ist^xice ぃf one kilca^trj th.u^h thj raid ano slush. F^ur run cjll^pso 1 .. In cn^ inst-inca only six nan u.; a log, thos^ wore driven nlong by .̂n origin ；or wh」struck th。non jvory t3n ŷ .rcis ox" so with a boubco stick. 飞 brj-•.!•: thirty m n u t j s lunch they had t. w^rk n until 2100 h- urs with ^ni rest ^f f if toon ..driutos ̂ re- turning tc c，.r:p rb 2 2 3 0 h'.urs. Th。n*kin : ニ h Airs thu. noxt diy w^ro tho axc^pt tint th-ro v u n broak during th^ ^.ftornoon. Instvj-ci f ton to tvvjlvj r.〕n ハ.11 ttjd t.. oach log carrying へ th^ro nl:，sov^r. Tho i.Lij ̂ rity f i。n ‘げjnt t、 vrorI: w. ul:」 n'jr:.スlly hr.vo boon in h-spit^lしr 。n light .'utios. On one .-cc/isi n wo "ibLa - ftor soau difficulty to r-^iso tho ro ,uir jq nioinbor c-f non f.」r wjrk ijt tho on^ino ̂ rs i-vhon tho J -parioso i。ししJ niuthjr fifty for v,7。rk insiao tho d p I rafus3じ ^n thd gr」un:: th\t エ n.； ucrJ Lion wh.‘ woro c^p^ble of si:。n:ニin、：レn th^ir f jot,.... ̂ no 、f thon... .ont^roC one リf tho hし.spitこ1 wards c slashing rb tho i.ion with : stick with thw ob jjct 、f Criving th。r:_、ut tw vv^rk... Af'tjr tho J p^nos J hid st^tad tint，if tho nen v^ro not furthcoming thj whjl3 c^jap r^.ti 'n V7.>uld bo cut in hrlf, D^ciclod th'.t it WLUIC: b<3 in tho intorost ,:f the r.̂ n if wo solactod fifty, r-ithar thr.ii h^.vo thり c°np litorall；'' starved, “t this st^gj conditions in I.Iし• 3 cruiip wjre v/ell nigh Docunent No. 5444 Pago No # 5 dosp^R^to. Tho nmibar jf S I C K W I S n bovj onj thous-uid, cf -a strength cf 1680 ,f In July 1943^ whon tho witness h,.D sont ^ut loss thぅJI tho roquiroc nu； ibjr jf , :jn .s/finf: to sickness， ono .f tho J?.p°noso officers summoned hin m i statj th n t ： "Tlie construction vf tho hid tj on without del\y it was rocuirj'.- for )ior':ti。nil purr jsos^ had to bo finished v/ith in ？. curtain time Tt c^sts^ irrJST jctiv-j jf tho loss of livos of British anj “ustr-ilian pris -rurs, H^ s n .ic it w,,s n;/ uso りur qujiing tho articles ^f tho G«jnava C-nventiv.n^ 飞s our own pauple h'\cl of— fended っセ、inst it by tho sinkin b S he sつitマ1 ships and by running c：jvm civiliar; intorn^-s with stoaa rjlljrs. II'nocJssiry^ ho stated^ th」 /Vv.ulu bj ro-：. uireC t^ wjrk three t o f :>ur d^.ys ^n n̂cl with jut rest. • ••" エじユin。d th。i:_iprossiv,n thit jvorything v/飞s t- be subordinated t ) tho coi iploti -n f tho lin」bj tha ona of “uこust, mci whjn this was n、)t fulfilled (Thj J\r ̂ nosj) boc^ij ins^rivi v/ith r . In th」 1たst c-.ays しf its constructi on 」ur men had to wcrk fr。n 0530 hours until 0200 hours tho fcllcwin,- On tho 13th S^ptorbjr I wハ s infori.cd by Li out. FUiXTDA th^t tha i.:Jn r.ust bd pr^p^.red t^ work つ.11 thr ‘ ugh tha ni^ht っ.s the- r^il- w-iy イ飞s ...lily ：1でりガIcilonotros to th3 north,气nd it vr:s nocoss^.ry th vb tho lino sh uld rc^ch SU^KliilJ^ three kilonotras to tho south b:. v thj 16th. 〇winぃ t- tho h^avy r^.in^ ho^jvor^ th. work co^sod rb 2230 hours^ tho uじn h^.vin^ boon .ut sinco 0530 h-urs thrb On tho 14th Soptoi..b«jr ravoillj v\ns it 053〇 h^urs っjid ,.ospito h。 n vy r飞in っ,11.:.y ̂ nh thr-;-u tJ h'.'Ut tho Gvjninc tho n^n vurj f jrc<3(l td roii"in り"ut until 0230 h-^urs しn tho 15th. thoy vv^rj rb 0530 hours pju ivjr^ v^orko until i.ic.night of thd 15一 16th S^ptuubor. On thj 16th r^vjillo wつ.s rb 053〇 h^urs anc； work finish 3d 飞 t 2200 hours. By this tiina tho non wore coiuplotaly oxhmsted. C-ncliti^ns Vtr̂ re ^pproxirv. n ±oly tho souvs on tho 17th. “11 the foregoing facts .̂ro sot out in r.iy clî .ry which ェ kopt 't tho tiriQ Djcunont No. 5444 Pago No. 6 Of tho original 3,662 Lion who loft SI.GvJPOiijS noiibors jf :! F ,? Force，1060 failed to return, roprosontln^ *^.pproxii^tvily 2勺％ of thj -x.I.F. coiripon-jnt. Tlio IO S S J S in th^ whol^ F.-rcorns Tho British lost 59% ” ‘ b # irrosocuti docuniont nuribarod 5〇6ん” tho Affidavit of Ma j. B.L•：“ CLARKE,-マ广1ご.ct」]T, is now pr")auc^cl for i.lantific^.ti^n °.ncl tho niarkod oxcorpts thjroin offjrod in evidence. This docuirunt described tho condition of so;;io of the aen r:f F Force who roturnocl fron tho railway c^rps in Docor.bor^ 1 % 3 : M Tiiuso non woro in a- shocking condition^ siifforing from ^ross attacks of bori-b^ri^ n.nd its v :.rious typos ̂ LHliria^ tropical ulcers m d gross dobility. Tho loss of v/eight was simply :pp。ユlinレ Tho avor.a^o loss of _w<3iじht v̂ rjuld nppo^.r t^ bo in tho nGighbourho^d of 70-80 lbs. per individuals Approxinat^ly 80 pur cont of those r一。n had to bo aclnittoo iruCiitely tu hospital. n c. Pi•つsecutiリn Dccur:jnt nuiribjr3d 5〇13, tho Affidavit of R.G, JILLLJAS， is cf forod for identification^ n Jacl thj sixcarpts nzrkod thor^in noYi pro due bd in ovidoncc. This docunont describes tho ni^htuire joiirnjy cf P/i by cattle truck fron Singapore tc S i n . Mjn wjro ovorworkad^ unciorfocl^ livod in ^.pprlling エl丄th, wore beaten ニnd forced to v/orl: wh-^n sick at c^xips in and nd^.r KD:SIGK. Dys^ntory^ r.^l^.ria cholc-ra took thoir toll. Clothing hare'ly existed ^no. or n J ! s wcrk, s:/i..3 njn ^.ctu'illy v/oro only ablo to cr-vwi bnck to c-^xip. Towards tho jnd ンf tho c、'nstructi )n of th^ railway^ non •or^ forced t」work in^ossibLj hours, -ind tho j^-'x.ose lucklessly ^isrog^rclod thvi cingjr yf l^jiilslides sり-thrt jn cru occasion six u n waro ruedlossly killed. d. Ir .secuti.^n docunont rmnboroc： 5〇67, th^ “ffidrvit Lt. C リ E . J . B“丄thiiTT, lU^.l .C. y is tondorocl for iderrbificrbion anc tho i ,^rked oxcerpts offorocl in ovid^nco. This d̂ cui.レjnt tro:'.ts ンf tho conditions in CHUHGK^I Sick Oエp between May， 1943 ^ J^urnへry,1944. Tho rvorハし3 nurnbor of Erisorurs of in tho Ch二p was 8^000, Thoy consistocl of i^on sont fron thj riilway cai^s sufforin^ frun v.^ri^us injuria s n̂し cis^^.sos. In sovon x.onths 1400 prisoners diocl^ r.^ny from tropical ulcors which had beon c^usoci by injury at work or fron the g u a r d s ,孤 1 fron deficiency dseasos. DJCUQjut NJ, 54^4 Pago Mo. 7 druA's*. ^ori^ss st-.tos; \ ro no anaosthGtics， no instr^onts pxiC supply or ： ' 第 ： \ ^̂ ^̂ シ̂パ了.,.、̂ブ： で "Ono ^；-noso doctors cn:v3 tc sea tmo c.imp.丄 askod "than; to watch an、inputrbion which^ w^is being c-^rriad out on i trop— :l-ulc3r c^so. Durln^ tho o^ursG i^i^tha ..ep'or̂ ti jn ono of tho Ji}： ̂ ntsa c! jctors f,.intふ:： m̂.:: ^nothor was sick. Thinking this was 气 ^ood opportunity to requjst proper instrui:ionts ĴiJ supplies of , d r u g s ^ エよ:vide • roouost to thjn mcl thoir i n ^ o r was th'っ.t エ must ro^.lizj th飞t thosj prisonjrs of war nnd no supply could bo o. Frosjcuticvii docunent nu:.±)orccl 5072_, tha '丄fid.飞vit of Sgt. C. B^REY^ is now offered f ノr i.• ontif ication^ on..: tho n^rko^l oxcorpts ^roduco-i； in ovi- c^nco. This docun.jnt statos that tho witnoss was っ"b SUNGKxt.il from Ihy, 1943 until S 。 p H r , 1 9 4 3 • "“hen へt SUilGKiし‘工エ w .s 、t iへ、2 Ca^p (Death V^lloy) anc. was forcod to work on th^ vopA durin^ my first ninj '"：̂.ys. “t SUHGKti‘エ thoro vjjro b̂ i±)OJ buildings without roofs or sidos. Thoro v^.s nud on tho floors which h.-d no f、.un:飞tijns v/h^tov^r. “b、:vj tho floor thoro wis bir—boo n^.ttinc. Tho first niしht 1680 7-ris..nors of wn.r wjro put .int.. two huts ^.bout 200 notros long and 'ut 24 f^ot hro^A. It j :n.s rfining 'ih^n WJ irrivod mcl it continujcl nil night. Thoro n J cov^r wh^tsoovjr tho i-î nso cn r•.てin caao cbv;n ^nd no ono hrv:"! ̂ r.-unci shoots -r .thor rotoction. It sc、,.n boc-̂ ino 八bsつ一 lutoly in: ';ssibl3 to li“ thoro. The only -ltornitivo w。s to light firjs っnし koりp • by stnn ニ!1しurr: thon. /o stayed there ハ11 ni ht until 0500 hours tho foll.A/ing corning whan ovorybody p^r^clocl prior t..乙c.in : . on to tlu- r-ilro^d th」first 」o w^ro と)iv\jn nc opi-'ortunity f cl丄？ning up r nnking tho inhabit^.blo. o v/ora into groups of fifty and positions waro ^llottod four nilos 。n 丄、ch side cf tho c喊、 l i y particular pirty was nnrched about thre R.iios fr^M tho c^I^P. It was r̂ .inirie, v^ry h:xc\ TLG VVU ̂ oro vory colcl, only i^-ttin.. hilf r i pint ^f rico for bror̂ .kf-ist̂ which w”..s sorvad at 〇53〇 hours • .iach mュin was issuod with a spado i a basket and a i'ick. Docunijnt lie. 5444 Fa^o No. S .io st^.rtoc: v.;•リ:rk irxu^.i /boly ci^^iii^ thj rっ.飞c stopped for ton iJjiutos ^v-jry f iv^： h^.urs • H。If 父;;dnt of ric j j:s issuou it tc -w.no 二 thjn continued. ,j n?.rched b^.ck to tho c’mp ".t If30 h^urs. 'Ihis tho routine # .*ftor tyn n rjs of r^in thJ c*vf^.s nothiiit but , s J I . N O rrotjcti.jn n.s "iffor^ecl ，._^inst thj r^.in, JVjrv in tho crjir h?.ct to lin3 up in th-o c. ̂ rk for 1 furthor qu ri .rtor “f a ： int of rica ^n^ jtiblo stov/ rt -\bout 1915 hours. During tho cl-y's wリrk nリー boCy •//たs .」rじ.ittj」 by tho Jへ：̂ n 3S3 tc へvj tho "^.rty if th^y ar0 ill or hurt in i/iy, ,Styr 」i 0 ht 'ニ"•，uring which poriod it vin^C st Jidily^ br Miches ^jr-i ； •! •cacl•；n tha roof っ . : ^ r o t J C - tiv.,n :\nC\ ，1s‘'j ..-n th.o si:： js ,f th-j huts. Nothing ms Con3 飞b.:ut> the floor 'LV： boloj tho b.、:'ubjご！.cts tho .; rushod through. Tho non h'u； tンli d on tiu b••ニJDひ。，in the '— .n;. Un i“y socoiic. J^y tluro^ ch^lor-： brjkj out.lio rrbijn h.?xl bo en ra'xlo x ,-ii isolation hos. it°l tho c n sjs cculd not bo .tJC:# .St^r : .t jly •.飞 wじ。k frリニ tho tin。 of ây th^ J ：丄 Mioso ： - r 飞 huu f or cholera, c -s^s °.nd tho following c^y エ sant ."is ，ix.j:.'ic -.1 f-r ^ut^ 、t tho hut. This hu、wis onl；'1 ̂ r rtljr ro ̂ f jd ” 0 ‘,.inst thj r 'iin uv: tho contro th」 hut coin— ci づ with tho c urso of th ュ v-r.tor jsc*=i:、in」d ̂ vn tho hills id 3. Th-ro ^jtj h^jpJjoj 'i.r:ts on tho si-''.os of th^ i.^ll of tha hut but th^ro バニ s n-thin.-, in thj contra the : で フ ニ r t 01 th。vrrbjr c "UJ.O thrru H. Thjrj woro s. ..."Miy c^su^lti JS th^.t tlur^ W、.s insuf- ficient roori by tho lis っ.nこ J h〜,tc li^ in thj vnt^r. Th^ h JI^S in thj r̂ .-f ‘ -ro s . PT^J th -1 thj R .in CT.J through ..n 七つ th」i:、ニn ‘rh . JT^J lyiii^ bjnj^.th.に-h‘、/l n:' . ^tlur tĥ XL J ̂.t jr fr-..r\ thj .;hich wa h-v r . t ン.b、'il. Th r\s n : ^.ccon-ocl^tiDn FOR T H J . R ; . J R L I O S ^ 〜H�. I � , . U t o SIJJ;:..丄ン-Nし t h . I I ^ . T I J U T S . N o OHOLJR0- inc cul ti^n ‘.is . .)ssibls•；. Thj c su "Itx^s w^r j c ;rriwa to the liソs::it，l by tho fit ： risoH- ors J丄 vr.r し n ^r^uii^shjots. Ch^l^r?, being hi^lily those i:。n :Vjrj frレ：u.oi.rtl:,nif j e t z r a l iiよ.、.ih^rvi vns no 1 丄 こ t - じv」r "iici whv^n ェ、にs レn ni^ht luty it Li. ossiblj to r丄:…vj tho Docui:^nt ivo. 54AA Paぃ！レ• 9 d.jハし,who in consjqu^nco h，d to r ^ ^ i n ？ n̂on̂ th^ liviu^,.until 〔..ny一 brj^k. On tho first .レ�ご thirty-oight -lan oioc ハ.nd worj loft outside tho hut, no provisi'jn being nたdj for thoiA tw bo ruiiov̂ c；. Ther3 was っ.cromtion p \vty of prisonors of v广 b u t thuso ccuid do nothing bjc>.uso tho rofusod to O ivo thdn shjv^Is or ^thjr iiiiiljr^nts v-/ith which to bury tho boiivis, Thjro woro '̂ ny nuinbor cf tools erasり th^y hid tj bJ USJCI for C I C b i n c thj roac. Th^sj thirty-3i£ht r.un ^oro l^ft cutsid^ tho hut for two . ,.ys，onlj'- s of thon boing crv^rec 7 , ivontu^.jly ^.ftor t^c ..lays thj り facilities f o r burylnと：tiし：:“ .iiiothor hut was liî co a l r . . i l� f o r . ysontjrj^ c^sus. Tho Jニp一 uiosj us^d to tost �1 1 prisoners of n^.r f̂ -r •^ysontory by putting oithor \ jii -co 、ジf b aiboo or z ]vioco uf or i gl-iss tube up tho roctux— This wr.s : x .̂iiiiul for thus。, wlu vj^ro fit. Thoy would t v.ut p jrs oris wlu w^ru ^xtroixioly ill cr dyin^, of dysont^ry and WwUld cへr巧‘，out this tしst, ^ d this in bu； casjs dofinit jly ^ r^ci: it-.tod d^^th by rj:?.s.‘n of tho ょ、in 、nd tho f:ct of thoir be- ing mov^d. Convalosc^nts iv^rj for cod t:.- c arry b \i:bo-js l r )n し dis 一 t^.ncjs in thj rain with b u f w b , v-rith tho rosuit thvt their fvjot vioro torn ind r^sultinr^ in ulc ニrs, for 也ich thorj w^ro no f飞cili- ti^s for trô .tiv.ont̂ n m y cf thoLi diod " f. Prosecution D.-cuii^nt nunibjrvjd 5031A^ thj ‘ゴfid?,vit '.、f H，j. it. J, OxJui B^LLy is eff iroJ f:r identification ”rd tho râ .rkjcl ^xc jr:; ts thereof pro- due 3；] in じ* This Axfici^vit ST^TJS that THJ C'-â r スT t、bridges ";7hich s： .̂nnod ^ rivjr uid tho so vr jru ropo^todl;^ b JDbod. r jrmissi *>n to じ.rk tho c .ふi,、. :?.s cent.へining P/.i" w^is rofusod^ in ono n i d IS n^n wjtq k:Lilj..linc huts sot on firo. .心t KJLNIBIJIII in Junj,19ベ'5，i British officer, thj Ĉ urip エntdr- proter,, w?,s boston into insensibility b\ J?.x-anoso officers. Ho vî .s than put into 三 cov^rod slit trjnch^ 5 ft. by 2 ft. 6 ins. by U ft. ̂ which hr.d six incho s ^f w:tjr nn^ uuci in it r md a^s inf^stod with n^squitojs. Tho jfficjr , v HV“ only 气 o f shorts. Hj wis c .ivon one bu丄しf rico por day. Litvir hj w、s tiksjn br.ck tu tho £,U"ird room whoro hu -f̂ s throntdn^d with torturj is a result cf which h。ondv?avuursjc to cor丄:lit s u i c m e . D'：. c ur.;jnt h つ• 5444 F^ga N o . 1 0 : .onths l^.tar ho yr.s r jcov^rod by F/'.. r d'jctors v/hc s^ic! ho v/culd boon (、”/! in a f。w 、re c>.ys. Ha w^.s insane, suff^rod fr」n bl^ckr^atjr F^VOR ••iiu .ハ’つ.s torrioly o a n c i 内 . H j hへ2 not v^shou or shavod durinc;, tho PORIしc 飞lid ĥ .d n':t dof jc^tjc1.f. r two ninths during th3 」i 0 ht;7 d^rs h^ s^jnt in tho trench. g. A T-s«jcuti- n .!̂ cuj jnt nui bjrod 5074, tho ブfi'.kvit 'f C. ,.iI.S. G^ hlj T C.丄 is n ；v； ff jrod f ic-ontif ic^.ti n n̂c"： tho rr.rkod jxhibits th jr Jin :rv'( :uc,ふく in uvicwnco. Tliis '.iii->'vit rol^.tos tho s^vigo of ^ris^rurs ,:'f :t, K.J.iBUal. i:ニn w^r^j b。rt'ニn “ith t。：k p^los on :。.rts of tho body until in sリi4站 c is^s th; non ^/^ro br ；k-jii rac. unroco. niz^.bl^ ，jv.. t，/j.) Lffic^rs wjr j nurCorvii. h. ？ix.svjcuti-'n D .cUi ぷ nt nuubjro..: 5075，thj J f i リ rvit jf Sub-Li out. J.O. し-JjN, is tondorod f->r idoiitificiti-n ûx： thj i, \rl jc] oxcor^ts thuroof n.-w off^rjcl in ovi-onco. This ；.ffiû .vit st^.tos th t in July 1943 3 ,丄 K/JBUftl thj :vitnjss on being told th t sick r..un had arrivod th^ro f j.und th^n cr、wlinし：,-b..ut thj 3 kil-notro strotch so丄ハrrtinこ the r ̂ ilŵ .;/ stiti:.n fr。rユ tho c〜冗、，Onj :rdorly h,•こ b^en sant with 170 nan suff ering fraa bori bori, dysjntory^ t r o p i c u l c o r s ゥ.nご chc-lor-i t： this cnxip. It tcok xiva h^urs to find ^21 those con. Tho Ac!jut\nt f tho s ho vj.uld .ベへon no-/; h.3spitn-l for thcr. # - Ho r̂ orvjĉ sor.j I"/,/ t : br^^k c'oivn tho f ̂ nco which sep^r^.tad th j fr jm th .t f 飞 Jr ̂ noso crv-liy ro c : iniont which hie； Lift thj c：̂y b^f rj. There w^r-j 20 r̂：" ty huts in J•しst .f which tluro w-^s ，nii.^l lung an: filth. Thd ,V jut ̂ nt jr-i^r^u tho sick Lijn t... h<i l jv^C horo .vithin ，n h ur. It two w3oks buf-ro Liodic^l stiff ^^.thjrad to look aft or the h s;:it-:.l. By this tjjio thorJ w^ro つv、jr 1^500 ^tionts ハnd the •卜.ily cij.̂ th r ti is botweon sov-jn . “ r.i.nth l:、.tvjr, dospito -:.\I1 eff-'rts, '.ys^nt^ry ：•ハtiunts Wore still .n thu。r、ui八.in ？. hut with.ンut pl'.tf..:rr“s. Th-i h、：s];.it•飞1 c^zio under tho uir^ct control jf J-̂ - ̂ •n^sj H.^. ‘山 wificjr -f thj C-jner°.l St^.ff^ P/.j C^niLiand visitod the h」si、it:l thr^e .'ニys へftvir its fcrisly jiiin^^ ind s.飞w thj cis^r^.cjful conditions in which tho sick v/orj living. ,でビff Evidentiary Document ガ 5059-4•， E^EPIIATIOi^X i;iCLirA^Y TRIRJI^iL FOR THE F^FJ EiiST. KO 3 丄 C TOUTED STi.T" £ OF AMERICA ^ND OTHERS. -against - ARAE:“. SADAO AND OTHERS« I, CHAHLSS Emri KAEPE of BRISB^TE in the STATE of QJJSEJSLAMn make oath and say as foilcv/sg - 1， ェ was LT.COL, CHi^LES KAPPEt： SIGNALS TOUT- 8 AUSTRALIAN DnnSION, when エ becams a prisoner cf war of the Japanese at SINGAPORE on the lyth February, 1542• 2 # I left CEAIIGI in Aprils 19439 coiimand cf 3660 Australian troops Generally speakings, the men i^ere in good condioion, but fit for light work only 0 After fourteen months on insufficient food they had 110 resistance and 110 reserve of strength® 3» The Japanese said that the movement of this force of 7〇00 strong, comprised of 3,300 British and the remainder Australians, under the commcind cf Lto Colo HilRRIJj 18 L-iv 0 Artillery, a Bi-itisher 5 v;as because the food situation in Singapore nas deteriorating 0 4* The jc-panese told us we veve going to a place where the climate 7;as similar to that of Sin^c.por3« They said we v;ore goin^ to seven camps in the hills in a good climafco yith healtiiy surroundings,- that as many mcsguitc nets and blanlrets as possible irrere to be tcJccn by individuals and deficiencies would be made up when we reached our destination (which was not disclosed)： Canteens v;ere to bo established in all camps and no restrictions uere to be pl^cad on tho amoimt of personal equipment to bo taken； transport would be made available for the cartage of hoavy cap equipment, camp and medical stores fcr ihe men un.fi{； to iric.roh; there would be 110 long marchcs; v;c were net to be a working p a r t y エ was not told this perscnally, but cho Force Coimocnder was tcld and エ have seen it in his suorn report thut- thirby per cent of the men could be unfit。 Australian policy v;as that only very near fits uould qo 0 There was no inclusion of any sick personnel, in the Au^stralian coinponent we had only one himdrcd and twonty-five men who were unfit fcr ス o r k , rhereas the British included the full thirty per cent. V/o moved, by train in parties of J00 -to Bi'J\/iP0NG- in THAILaKD. The transport v;as in ten rico trucks and each bMd to aocoinmodats twonty-sevon to twenty-eight men and stores, There uas no ventilation in the trucks except the sliding doors,. The heat was terrific. The trucks could only held ten BIGIL ccmfcr fcably 6 Evidentiary Document # 2 # 64 The men were kept； in tho trncirs for lon^; intervals and sanitary facilities en route utre ei bher cnt cr f ilthy a 7. The food consisted of twenty ounces of rice and onion wじter per man per day for everybody including the sicko XX were not given regular meals, sornetimes we ^ont for tT/cri'uy-fcur hours without food and one party went for forty hours T7.i;bhout it 3 8. The water supplied wcis inadequate, Drinking r;ater wしs very linated, ve could only fill our Tracer bottles at the stops, uhich v/ere irregul-r• One train uas without uatsr for a full day and until nightfall on tho next• 9. The trip lasted four to 1 ivt； dcyso 10. when v;c arrived at HAHPONG v;g vere placed in a staging cainp v;here tho acconmcdution \jc.s filthy and over-crowded 3 Fcod consisted of rice end there was very little cf it;。 ！7e had one day there. 11. でe then marched by n i ^ h t a total of 185 to 190 rnlcs as near as v;e can gauge, per the first part cf tho journey tha weather dry. It T7- s tropical country un.d pexispiraticii just poured from everybody and our clothes became cibsolutoly x:et T.'hen v/e v/cro murcliing these long a〕.stances and carrying hecvy loads,later the Kcnsccn broke じnd v;e marched through tropical rain« 12. Rest periods v/erc quite useless because tlie staging camps \jcxe in cleared croas alcngsidc the truck cud no cover or protection from the tropical sun or insects uしs provided, 13. The journoy took soYontcen days ĉ rid during that time had three extra days 1 rest, that 23 three nights v;itlicut laarchiri^。 14• Our longest march v;as こbout 1;vei?.t3r--eî ht kilometres, during \7hich vc marched forty minutes and nested twenty minutes 0 ro rere very over- loaded as v;e hcid to carry cur cooking containers； gear and nedical supplies There v:as no transport to take eny of the heavy e,ear which consisted of six &しlion containers, nedical paniers full of modicul stores, picks 9 shovels, etc. 15r ‘;e r:ore constantly badgered by tho Japanese., and tho sick were forced to continue despite our ov/rj. modicai officers 1 opixiionsc The guards beat them a l o n g a n d incny had tc be Cc.rried by corarades oil inprov: sed strctchers throughout the night: in addition to their oun loc_d3 0 l6 0 The beatings and slappings of men who were completely unfit weakened than to such £tn extent tlicit v/hen they Lrrived at their camps they fell easy victims tc cholcra end other diseases end died rapid.ly c The. Japanese never let up cr c.llc?7ccl the nen includi.n^ the sick, to rest» It seemed to be tho higher policy to drive these men tliD ou^;h 9 to sec* that they did not remain in the staging coniDS 3 Evidentiary Document H 5Q59A. 17 # IJPst of the beatinss were done v/ith hands and fists, but theru was one instance when txvo officers t ^ j o r .AIOSHSON r.nd Lieut. T'TEEDIZ. were beaten v/ith a ^olf club 0 18• Everyone of the sto^inc ccuips was shocking from the point of view of sanitation, filth 5 full 3,citrines, etc, were ripe fcr dysentery and other diseases. There ?;ere flies by the millions and maggots crauling everywhere. 19* our pcirty went to within a few miles of the THHEE PAGODAS PASS cn the BURM-TEIATL^.ID RAILWAYan.d the moil cccmeiicecl wcrk 011 the line in mid yp.y 1 9 4 3 • 1 vizh thorn the whole tliaG。 2 0 # in all the working CCEIDS on the R A I L W A Y into which our party moved, the accomriodation had not been completed and the buildings had no roofs. The MDiiscon rains were then falling; 0 The food in these a amps yc.s just rice and onion water or rico and bean water. 21. A l l the tiraG our boots v;ere f a l l i n g to p ieces , and there vas 110 replacement of clothing or footwear® The T7crk on the lino was very hard 011 boots as wo were in mud and water cill day long 0 i/itcr cn we had to ballast the lino v;ith stones and the men had to walk across these stones and work in quarries without boots. 22. The hours of work varied from twelve to twenty per day. Twelve hours and fourteen hours per day were the most coicmoii. Normally the men would be out at 8 a c in 0 ati back at 10 p 0 m 0 ffe had no days off a The first day off we had was when the railway was through, and the line v/as joined near our camp about 19th or 20th September«, Yie had started about the 14th or 15th May, and we worked night afv-er night right through to September, without a break. For months and months the men did not see their camp in daylight. Day after day and nnny times a day,エ made protests,the Medical Officer made protests and the Adjutant made protests in an endeavour to get the numbers of men working reduced. Nothing would stop .the Japanese. They said they would drive the men to work and if they Y/anted a thousand men for work they would ^et a thousand men, irrespective of their physical condition 23• Rice with a few pieces of fish in it s was the food ration. In the early stages rice was fairly plentiful^ but as soon as a man v/ent sick the ration was cut down to one third of the amount given to a working man。 Sick were then starved and it was impossible to build them up again, We have complete records of the rat ion and they show that the food was totally inadequate, 24• During the course of the building of the line I was told by the Japanese that it was a ijilitary Railway, and as soon as the line was through エ sau the trains loaded with horses, guns, trucks, amniunition, etc. The Force エ was with was called "F" FORCE and we worked on the section of the railway just south of the THRES PAGODA PASS to NIEKE. Until July I v/as with POKD'S Eatta.lion moving from KCKCCITA to TAII^OMTA and then v/ith a special party of three hundred odd to a general camp just south of blUJKE. Evidentiary Document jf. 5Q39A. 26. in June POKD f s Battalion arrived at IOTICQITix where the party halted for two days c The troops xjers billeted in huts irhich had. been evacuated the previous day on a c c o d of cholera deaths« The huts were indescribably filthy and protests which were HMde to the Japanese only caused the force to realise that tbey T^ere officially plaoad 011 the same level as Burmese coolies0 An application for tools v/ith v/hich to clean up the filth brought the reply that none yas available 9 despite the fact that hundreds of shovels and chimirels had been brought from UPPER KOfTCOITA. Coolies walked through the huts 9 spatdefaecated and vomited everywhere, yak carts and ye.1 lirg droves congregated at; the entrance 8 yaks were taken through the huts and they dropped their ejccreta where rice bags had to be stored, 27* Tliere uerc dead coolias uithin two hundred to three hundred yards• 28. At UPPER SOMKIJHAI Camp in August the latrines were flooded by the incessant rain. One of them had broken its banks and a filthy stream oozed through the camp area and passed under the floors of the huts occupied by the hospital. Cut side and even inside the huts izas a quagmire» There was no reason for the hospital to be in the position in which it was as there T7as high ground rhere it could have been placed. 29• No provision for hospitalisation of the force had been made, except a small hospital camp at L0 T ^ER I了ISECE, which was soon abandoned. Requests to allou fit men to remain in camp to improve the situation were refused and all fit men were made to rork on railway construction e Any attempts to get tools with which officers could do this v;ork met with very little success， '\je evon found it difficult to obtain a pick or shovel to dig graves for the dead, 30. in the same camp 011 the 10th August cholera broke out a The area selected by the Japanese for the isolation hospital was a small cleared space of low lying ground on the river bank, v;hero th© mud was ankle deep and the only fixed accoirmodation was a small hut capable of holding no more than thirty pat l e n t T h e remainder of the personnel placed in isolation had to be quartered in tents and under tent flys which invariably leaked, ]SFo fit men r;ere freed from engineer v:ork to assist the sick in providing stagings to keep them fi-om muddy ground 9 and all duties except nursing had to bo performed by the personnel in isolation. Requests for more service- able tents and the release of men from v;ork to improve the area and even for a few additional tools all met uith the same results The Japanese did not occupy this hospital„ 31. The instances I have given above indicate generally the type cf acconnodation in these camps, except that I have not stressed the terrific overcrowding r/hich existed everywhere® 32• The men had nothing to wear except the clothing in which they were captured, and most of that had rotted or perished during ths months of the monsoon• Wny of the men uere going to work uith only a scanty piece of cloth around their loins• Evidentiary Document # 5059A. 33• Force Headquarters were constantly asking for medical supplies to be brought forward f but th3 an&war always given was that the road to the south was impassable。 However ? war equipment and merchandise for the NIEKE shopkeepers wore beinc broufet forward in quantities by river boats. The r e m i t was that medical supplies wsre practically non-existeivt 0 34. ェ have seen all the bones of a man's feet exposed by an ulcer of the foot • エ have seen the bones of a man»s leg exposed from the knee to the ankle and I have seen a UBII f s ribs exposed by an ulcer under his arm, ^he only treatment which could be given was scraping with sharp instruments, 35. The Japanese had their own medical supplies at N U X E because some of cur Australian doctors who were working in that area were attempting to purloin some of these stocks to pass on to our camps• 36. The facts set out in the preceding paragraphs are typical of the treatment meted out generally at the railway camps in respect of medical supplies # 37• On the 7th July a pretest against the imltreatment of the men was forwarded to GENERAL BAMTO. Tliis pointed out that on the 3rd July the men marched out of camp at 0^00 hours and after ploughing through mud for five kilonetres they commenced v/ork at 1030 hours. The task for the day for 135 men was 160 metres of corduroy ing • This involved the removal of the mud for a width of 6 fto,laying the legs, and draining and reinforcing the track with earth and stoneso parties of ten to tvelve men vere forced to carry in the day seven logs 15 feet long and 10 to 12 inches in diameter a distance of one kilometre through the mid and slush. Four men collapsed. jn Oxie instance only six nen v;ere detailed to a log, these were driven along by an engineer v/ho struck the men every ten yards or so with a bamboo stick， Up to 1345 hours the men had been given 11c rest. Then after a break of thirty minutes for lunch they had to v/ork on until 2100 hours with one rest of fifteen nunutes, returning to camp at 2230 hours. •3tie working hours the next day were the same, except that there was no break during the afternoon 0 Instead of ten tc twelve men being allotted to each log carrying party, there xjere only seven• Eight men collapsed under the heavy l o a d s ,エ iiade that report after enquiry with I/^jor J0HNST0LT. 38 # The above is typical of the work on the corduroying of roads, but the uork on the construction of embankments and digging cuttings was just as arduous• The whole force worked seven days a week until about the 17th September. 39. The nBjority of men who v;ent to work would normally have been in hospital or on light duties. 40. cn one oocasion ive yere able after some difficulty to raise the required number of men for rork for the engineers T7hen the Japanese demanded another fifty for uork inside the camp a This i;ork included the building of a new barrack hut for the Japanese, the making of pathways and other work in their interest•ェ refused on the ground that ェ had no more Evidentiary Document -Ji 5Q59A- men who were capable of standing on their f e e t ,エ fought, the Japanese on this matter for tr/o hours, The two persons making this demand i:ere Lieuts. FUKUDム .̂nd TOYAFA , After •しhis ti-ne： on-3 of nheiii,I thirk it was T O Y A M entered one of ^he hespixal rards and oomenc^d slashing at ihe men with a stick vixh theobjeot of driving them out to v;ork,エ had a hurried conference with my ên.i. or Medical QfticGr, I7djor STEVENS • After the Japanese had staged that ? if tとe nBn v/ere not forthcv^Jing, the T/ho.'i.e camp ration yould be cuo in halT 9 v;e decided that it v;ould be in -'Jhe inheresで of the men if selected fif^y men in the letter stages of their li^alaria treatment, rather than have the oanp literally starvedO At this stage conditions in Ko, 3 carnp て/ere ̂ eli-nigh desperate„ The number of sick 订as しbove one thourjand^ out of a strength of l680 o 4 1 , 0 1 1 the 3.5th july. 1943,エ sent out a party, 3 8 less than the number requested c Tiie senior Medical Qii'icer and his assistant started 'work as soon as it uas light to reclassify the nen Q At about mid-day m j o r s HQNT and JOHMSTON ciixlエ T/er3 auijjtnoned to エ-了，久。Headcuarters where mq found FIFI1DA in a raging temper bor-ause h.is orders had not been carried out。 FIIKI3DA stated it uas japan's intention to become friendly with Australia after the war ? but the senior officers uere doing all they could to antagonise tlic japaness by refusing to carry out c.rders。 He said that if ho ordered that 1000 ir^n would go to uorl: v they would go despite any protests v/hich Kould make。The Japanese er4neers vzere prepared to die and the prisoners also nusて be prepared to sacrifice their lives for the railway. He wont on to threaten that not only v/ouid the C^np Coiamander ana his staff be punished lut all men in the camp T;culd be made to suffer for the disobedience cf his or dor a c C ^ ov:n particular pun.j.shmcnt yas to consist of being made to stani L11 a f ireo ho pointed out that the con- struction of the railway had to go on Tii thout delay as it was rcquirad for operational purposes.； and had 6 be finished Tribliin a certain time at all costs, irrespective of tho loss of :LLve;s of British and Australian prisoners He said it vms 110 use cur quc^jng the articles of the Geneva Coiivention, as our own people had effeniod against i じ by the sinking of hospital ships and running dov:n civ.i l.i.an luit心:rnees \vir-h st'jam rollers,, If nece-ssary ? he stated, the men v;ould be required to work three to i'our days on end v;ithout restc. 42e The above in.stances are typical of the Japanese attitude tovrards ucrk throughout the i\つ.i丄フuy zonstr^-o Ion., I gainst the impression that everything T;QS to oe sub Drains ted to ihe completion of the line by tlie end of Augua'-, and irhm th..\s w.3 DCP) fulf il丄ed3 xhじ；y became insane ri th rage, in the last days of its Mmiir\ict:on oar men had to work from 0530 hours until 0200 hours tho foi.i.ov/.i.ag day。 43• On the 13th s^ptenber ェ uas informed by Lieut, KCXTDA that the men must be prepared to uork all through the nユfeirt as the railway uas only a fev; kilometres to the north, and it was necessary that the line should reach SONTJIK、three kilometres to the soul;h by the ].6tii« (King to heavy rain, hoTvever, the ；7cr3c ceased at 2230 hours, the men having been out since 053C hours that rjui-ning：. On the sep + >enber reveille vas at 0^3° hours and ic^npite heavy rain all day and tkrouihoufc the evening the men were forced to remain out until 0230 ho j u t s on the 1 5 th. i^-ain they were roused at 05J0 hoars and were worted until ml^ni^itof the ]5/l6th Evidentiar3 r Docunent fi 5059A• 7- Septenibor, On the l6i:h rcvcillG was at Q530 hours and -work finished at 2200 hours. Ey this time the men yore completely exhausted. Conditions were approximately the SAAIE OP. tho «, Ail the foregoing facts are set out in Eiy diary which. I kept at the tine, 44- in November,1943? ^fter the completion of the railway the survivors came south by rail to KANBURI, which vas the japuiese nain base for the railray construction。 After about ten days there v;e moved to BANGKOK^ After about a v;eek there エ moved by ship rith _500 troops to SELaR^NG，SINGAPORE。 43 • Of the original 3,662 men who left Singapore as members of "F" Force, 1060 failed to return, representing approximately 29亥 of the A.IrF. component<> The losses in the v/hole force vas 4丄!•窝。The British lost 59%* 46 • M^ny of the men have died since and エ am certain that many others will feci the effects for tho rest of their lives 4 47• I consider the reasons fcr the heavy loss of life yere the poor food for the fourteen nonths in CIL:!.TC-I 7 folloT^d by a five days 1 train journey under shocking conditions, followed by seventeen days 1 Lurching through the jungle vrith heavy loads and through filthy staging camps with poor food, T7hich completely exhausted thし men. No rest was given before they uere sent to T7ork e insufficient food r;as provided to make good the exhaustion of their bodies following those e v e n t s F o o d of a nutritional value tjllS absent o C'n top of that excessive overv;ork had to be done. Tliore yas lack of eleracntary mcdic^l supplies and facilities and elementary necessities for sanitation and hygiene. (Signed) C.Ho EAPFE, Col. S170RN BEFORE I/IE AT ERISBAKE ON THE 6.TH DAY 01 SEFTICMBER 5 1946. (Signed) A-K. DEAKIN，JcP, JUSTICE OF THT PI^CE. Evidentiary Docuiuent No. なムン I^TEmTIONaL I.ILIT^Y TRIBlimL FOB THE 腿 3AST> NO。し TJÎ ITID ST；,TPS OF AK^RICa 21D OTHl^RS 一 aeainst 一 AI^EI, SADAQ .M) OTIIirtS. ,1, BURTILTT L^iSLIL ！700DHJRI丁 CLA3KE of BRISBiふIE in the STムTE of QJIEENSL^D, MEDICAL PI?ACTITI0^r2R, m k e oath and say ac follows ：- I was '^2P806 l^JOTl B.L。^。CLAHEE, 2/13 8 プJJSTRblliJ了 DIVISION, v;hen I becanc a pr.ison^r of war in tlie hands of the Japanese Forces. 2. in Deconber,1943» a lar^e portion cf Force returned fron the BURKA-THAIL;J!D R.'.IL^Y, Tiiese n.en were in a shocking' condition, suffering from c^rosc attacks of beri-beri f and its various types, nalaria, tropical ulcers and exoss debility, ^he loss of weight was siiiply appalling、 Tl-e average less of uci^ht would appear to be in the neighbourhood of' 70-80 lbs c per individual,, Approxir-Btoly 80 per cent of tlieso nen had to bo aclziitted imediately SWOHN BEFOHn： Mi AT BRISB遍 OF THE 13TH DiiY OF SEPTEHHl®，1946 to hospitals ) )(Siしr-ed〉B.L.W. CiUHIE. (Signed) ACH. JUSTICE OF TIIE J.P. PEACE Evidentiary Docuriont }j 0o 5013, The international Lilitary Tribunal for the par E^st, 斤 TIIL UTTITID ST. .TLS OJ iJCRICA j:TD OHS v / It Ronald George \； TX2146 Lieutenant i:iake oath and say iJIKl t S.:.D』，遍 ORS. iiliar;i3 of Derby in the state cf Tasmania, fomerly Ronald い o々rce rillianis of 2ノ4〇 Aust„ infantry Battalion エ was first taker prisoner in Timor on 23 February 1942. in September 1942 エ was taker uith a nui:iber of Australians to java r re left Java for siricapore 01.1st January 1943 v;ent to Chan^i ivhere ue reminod until ja?.uar；',1943• I丨toli ciian^i we e: itrainea on 21 junua:,y 1943 迎凸 arrived at Bcm^poiiGt Thailand, on 25 January 1943• The ；rain trip was very bad* マe were put into either cattle trucks or rice trucks in sniall steel compartiuents, into which ever 30 nen were crcr/ded. The heat uas terrific during the day and it ua^ freezing cold at rri dnic;ht • There rjas not sufficient roori for the 12011 to lie do\m € The food was supplied on tiae railway station and v/as not particularly bad. re had a lot of m l a r i a OTI the trip but nobody died. pron BQ-NCPONR, W S yent B Y truck to T^ S O , up the river. T;G stayed there overnight ead on the following LiDrniriij left for a place later called Rintok $ uhc re UG arrived on 27 January 19^*3 • マ e arrived at about five o 1 clock ii, the evening• Up ^ narrow road the Japanese pointed to the jungle it self and said, "There is your caiip• “ re then liad to {\o to work to he<7 u camp site out of the jungle； we had to £,et off the road because of the traffic« T^e following day we received some tents. Food r;as very, srery vcor at this sta^e # ，コe had nore or less plain rico for the two months we v/ere there。 ,•二e uere joined by a lar^e Dutcli party who had a ^ ot of caces of dysentery; they had about four or five deaths before vie I.eft but \:e did not liave any although 8C3 .e of our party contracted tlie disease. \jc were still Lavinc trouble v/ith malaria and general nalnutritif)n and bori beri. Up to thio time we had found out lioy to treattiopic il ulcers and xic hid then under control, At this canp v;e uere first ci:ip: .oyed in cleaning a large area in which to build t a car.:p, and then ue di 1 repair v/orl: on the jungle roads。 The hours of pork uere fron eight o f clock 111 the norning until six c 'clock at ni己lit • ;?e had soue sicl: nen T. ho were taken out to r;ork every day c sone nen had go out to \7ork barefooted because they had no boots. Our clothes vrere practically v;orn out, u J!ter r;e had built tho canp the Australians v/ere in tents but the Dutch ^ore left out in the open フitli 110 accomodation whatsoever. to E 1 idorxtiary Doeoncnt Mo„ jG13。 Our next caicp wac at Kinsiok, uhere ue came under the co： xiarid of T⑶址 T T . * e riarched 17 kilometros and arrived there on 18 1943, and left with a party of 230 cn 1 April l c ;k3 - T^e food r;as a little better, ac v:c received a cniall quantity of dried fish,- but it vras still absolutely inadeouute and tno nen continued to downhill in health mainly through malnutrition； they uere becoming; weaker and weaker every day. Tl.e acccLxx-dation v/ith which TO v;ere provided had foruerly been a Dutch dysentery hospital, and there uerc faeces all over the floor# There v:erc sone ninor beatings in the camp® '：：0 'jent out to i;ork on the railway line and it here that first cane into contact T/ith the Japanese engineers, x/licn v;e nicknamed the wj^iack Crousi, I went out on to tlie rail- \my lines and tried to talk to the Japanese officer with a view to shortening the hours of v/ork and allowing sick nen to rest as re 11 as to provide then with at least half~an-l:our fcr lanch us they v/ere ^ettin^ only 10 or 20 minutes, but for that I received a decent sore of bashing fron the Japanese officer, sick nen v:ere forcod to xiorlz oil the railway line. Tl.e reply I received from tl.e Japanese vas,"マhen the Japanese soldiers are sick they m s t work, so your r^xi T/ill i;ork and also you will worl“ I refused to work and told hin that I vras there to look after the men and net to v;ork 9 and for that I v:as beaten uith a uc.lking cane 0 T-^ Japanese v^ero standing on the railuay oubaiiknent throufecut thu day throuinし‘ pieces cf rock and dirt at the rien if they go i.mch as straightened tlieir backs j t).ey were also hit over the head uith bamboo sticks 0 "Te did not have any deaths。 iちaical supplies v/ere very, very liraited and •clotLin^ likewise て:as slicrt, as wo had had no extra clothinしこivon to us # Our doctors and neaical sergeant had the tropical ulcers ur.der control but we had sone very bad beri beri cases and perhaps ten of our i:.en uho were ^oin^; blind •；?ere evacuated. dov;;i the line to tlie hospital 0 “t that tine there uerし 376 uen in cur party^ Fror. Kinsiok エ went with 230 nen to clear another picce of jiuiele Lt zinsiok No。1 juncle Canp,10 kilor.etres doun the river 0 7*e left ci. 20 July 1943* Tho food was at all tines very scarce and the uen --ere still ^oing clounhill fron nalixUtriticn 0 ム c c o i x x > ( 2 a t i o n absolutely appalling； we had 20 and 22 uen in c tent, r/hich leaked very inch s i^n were vorlcing fron seven o ‘clock in the ncrnxriG until 9 し , clock at niしlit3 v/hen they returned to canp, endeavouring; to eat their food in the dark uid ^oin^ to tiieso tents ;vliich were abscユ.ut.ely ii^oasi'ole to sleep in ovinG to the v/eather. :;e had a (-reat deal of sickness and dozens of sick uen v;ore bein£-- forced out to vorl:oし tlie railway lire each day. T-oy viore beaten if they could not v/ork^ Tl'ic rxin in charce of tliしt car.� uas a Japanese naned Hori Gunso, who is nov; dead. The Gouandc-r 01 the canp v/as still "panaka, v;ho v/us really responsible for our treatucnt „ 7.で hud our first cholera cases there in July 1943« li^lit ムustralic^s died frcn dysentery, m l a r i a and cholora,, r し b o o n joined ut this carp by し party of ^00 1^-lislii.ien. up 上ill their arrival v/e had liad no dysentery in the caiip but unfortunately tlicy brou-ht it with tiier., and it fcocaric rife aijorĵ st us. ^/pdical supplies v:e:re the shortest they had been up to dato« ”e liad practically no beatings in^icle the canp but the engineers uero bashing the nen all day. Tlie u^lisli suffered ^bout 40 deaths in the canp raid tlicy iyidentiary Docur:ent No© 5013， 3c ^ evacuated 350 sick nen out of their ,500。 Over the i7liole period, about 3〇 or 6o of cur nen r;ore evacuated. ，’e hcid ^reat d i f f i n getting nen evacuated; ；ve v:ould ar^ue i;itli tlic Japanese for hourc about it。 At that Gtat,e f the nen \;oro v/sarint any old rc/ja they couldglBt) they had no proper clothes and no fcoi;i:'3ar w h a t e v e r B e - ^ u o e cf てhis, they contracted sone sort of foot-rot and ェ have actually seen nen crawlinし back into caiip at ni^ht # Yet the Japanese uould not allov; then to stop work。 On 20 July 1943 TOnt back to Kinsiok for three days to finish tlie railway line c T^is was rliat tho boys callcd '"Three Days of H ^ H They used to be rxide to v/crk from dayli^lit to dark to ^ct the railway line completed, ^he hours of v/crlc v/ere very Ionじ and sick nen were forced to TOrkj they r:ere even driven out of hospital to work cn the railr/ay line. At this canp we had seven deaths frcu dysentery and cholera； nen collapsed on the job uith cholera a T^n级a uas still dircctly in charge of us^ The guards ther.isclvec v:ere all KcreLJis • the v:orct of the lot boin 0 nicknaned "Ilie soatmn" - i^rtianc, Another w uard who v;as in charge of the v;ork parties \;as T^iyaixi, also iprinoto。 He took part in a lot of the bashings and would Generally pick on sick nen；' he would しo throuji the liosprfcals and chase out sick Den to v;ork c He would basl: the boys v;itL his fists and Trith pieces of sticky fron uliicl: they had biaol:^ eye3 and bleedin^ noses and skin loiockod off their faccs„ T^dical supplies T7ere very, very limited• Tiiere v:ere dozens and dozens of cholera caseso The ccnp had {；;;rov:n and now contained approxirx tely 1^00 or 2000 nen ； whon v;e caiie back it uas in oil absolutely appalling condition； there v/as nud up to the kr.oes 9 T:e left ninciok on 24 July 1943 by barce for rluar^ i:lai, 80 kilometres further up river, regained there until 8 recenber 1943• There v;cre 1000 nen in the caiup, including 120 Australians, ir： the early stages, the nen uere suffering very badly frou malnutrition but later the food iriproved ； we uere しiven a considerable nuLibcr of cows and v:e had soiie neo.t each day. Latterly, in this cainp it uas the beet food x了o had in Thai- land 0 It uas tho height of tlie -;et season v;hen arrived there and during the first fer: weeks T/e v:cre saturated tho v/liole tiLie, but later we built ourselves a reaconablc canp; v;e had tents v;ith banboo flooring all the Kay betueen the tents so that ue cculd しc し11 over the COIAI： without putting a foot on the こround• "；e ucro still en^a^ed on railv:ay v/ork but tho hours of uork R:ero not GO lox^ and the nen did not ucrk as hard as the^ hud done before• :. T e still had a lot of nalaria and the usual bori beri and m l - nutrition. Tlie sn^lishincn Trerc suffering very seriously frou tropical ulcers and Lien v;ere losing tlieir lc^s. sicl: nen bo in し forced out to ?7orl: - i::en with very lox^c ulcers* XJe uould ^et one day's rest with nalaria if TO were lucky, and unless had bori beri very badly tliey uere sent out to uork• six r.ien uere Id lied in a landslide. ; f e ;?ere Liade to r:ork in a very dangerous position© I cculd not しet down to the pli.ee nyself but the Australian serfieart-mjor who v;as in charrje of tLe ；;oridn^ pc^rty repeatedly pointed out the danger of tlie job but the Japanese would not heed his rarnirCi with the result that 17 of our rxn v;erc actually caught in the landslide and six l:illed^ The japLjaese engine»3rs v.'cre entirely to blane for this as tlie serceant-najor pointed out hov the job could be done て,ithout the Evidentiary Docuinc-nt po. .attendant danger ? bat no notice \ias talcen of hin^ T^n^ka v;as still in ！ cliarco of the canp 0 enc nan died fron ml^irir-. and one fron pneTioonia, | judical supplies vjero still insuffacjient。 ,: T e did not reccivo any j vitamins cf any sort and the men still suffered fron: mlnutrition.て:e j had on issue of rubber boots there and a s m l l quantity of Dutch clothes, j Up to this tine a lot of men had been evacuated to the base hospitals 011 account cf tropical ulcers, cl.olcra f dysentery and piieui.iDnia,マhen we went back dov.n tho river we had 98 î c-n left， Tl'iG railuay line ロas joined in Thailand on 17 October Sncrn before 1*3 at Launceston in the state of T^sniania this 24th day cf soptenber 1946 ) ) ) (Signed) RON G. THLLJ.B. (Signed) A.J. lOTAGI^, JJ\. ノ r u 斤 r バ Evidentiary Dccuinent No. _5〇$/感 IN THE MATTER OF JVJVIMESS rû i C R E S S . m IN THE MATTER OF TEE エ:LL-THE^TOIErT OF PHISOJMERS OF T̂ JR “T C:IUN(2CJ PRISOrSR OF A ]? ？ I D “ V I 〔I，Lieutenant Colonel st. Clair Edvard John BAHRETT, (&$$窝$), R^.I^C.t with permiient home address at 4 Crescent Gardens, Belfast, jTcrthern Ireland, nolze oath rnd say as follows cii15th February I i;as captured and tahen prisoner by the Japanese at Sir&J'ORE. After beinc a prisoner of T:ar in CHANGI エ was, in jrovenber 1942» sent into TII^ILAKD as nedical officer to treat prisoners of VLT v/lio xiuro working 011 the building of the BAKGrOir-HJLMEIN railway # 2. I senior niedical officer at CIIDNOEO.I Sick C^qp from 19th f/Hy 1$43 until January 1944® During this tine the British ccimandant was Lt # Col # OT'JTRi.J。 During this period there were no working parties at the coup and it uas uainly used for adralni str at ive purposes and as a S I C K c.oiiip. i l:iad 28 nedical officers under including British, Australian o.nd Dutch/? 3- I renei-iber the foliowinc personalities of the Japanese staff- Lt, 0S/J7T0. Eo was of s m l l and slight build f very quietly spoken, did not speak English and T/as aged about 35 years. His attitude towards Drisoners of war v;as satisfactory« Lt. ICOKITBO. Cpl. Y“SN0, lie relieved OSARTO as very dark appearance, about 45 years of a^e, This I了CO iijaintained a prisoners of war. He imfriendly» Coxonandairt • Thick set bui丄d, bandy-le^ed, class swordsman, ,uas very fond of drink very correct attitude toT7cj?ds v:as neither friendly nor { T h e average nuraber of prisoners of r/ar in the sick canp was 8 f 000« ‘Tliey consisted of prisoners of v;ar sent dov;n from the railway v/ho v/ere suffering fron various injuries and diseases, in the seven months I uas there 1,400 prisoners of \:or died, many fron tropical ulcers T;liich had been caused by injury received at work, or fron the guards, and deficiency diseases such as bori-beri and pelo^ra,.ェ had 120 anputations in order to avoid the spread of disease to other parts of tho body® 5 . I./Bdical supplies r;ere nil and ェ give tlie following ezaLiplos；- Bandies； Tlio supply uas very r-iea^re, 'i-./y allocation t;GS six 2 bandages per nonth to dress 2,0C0 tropical ulcers t Evidentiary Docuxient No. • 2. Dru^si I‘y allocation of quinine was 5 kilos per rxrith which was quite inadequate # I would have required 20 kilos for th© supply of ordinary rr.intenance doses• l.'y quinine officer vjc.3 captain I.JT H^CIEFZIE, S.S.V.F. Tnstranents： fio instruments of aaay kind v/ere issued• Tli^y votg all hoLi& nade• amputation knife consisted of an ordinary corving knife and ny raedical saw consisted of a hacksaw• ^aesthetics： T^ere t;as nc supply of anaesthetics. 6. エ repeatedly brought tc the notice of Lt• K0ITF30 this state of affairs who replied that Lo had no supplies to renody then, I cia convinced that he took no steps to obtaii. any supplies. Cpl. YxJSi'O onco shov;ed r^ his neaicし1 store and it t;as en^jty # 7# Oho day 5 Japanese doctors c a m to see the canp # エ then to v;atcli an amputation uliich was being carried out on a tropical ulcer case. During the course of the operation one of the Japanese doctors fainted and another v;as sicl:. Thinlcinc this v;as a ^ood opportiuiity to request proper instruijcnts and supplies of druこs, I made a request to then and their onsrrer v/as that I m s t re^liso that tu^nr x;oro prisoners of y:lt and no supply could be m a d e ^ SWORN by the s“id st# Cl&ir rdward John BAKRJLTT at 6 Spring G^ciens in the city of •”estr‘iinster this 13tl.. day of Deceh.ber 1945. ) ( 3 i G n e d ) St^C.E.J. Bi'JJRETT, Before ine, (Signed； F . flOFIG. Captain L ^ a l st^ff. Military Dcpartuent, jud£e advocate General»g office, London. Certified true copy # (Siy^d) F.J. HITGHIE, Lt. for lilitary Deputy J.A.G. Evidentiary Docunent ff. 5072. IN THE BETTER OF J.-PiJJESE CRII5ES 通 HI 駕 I/LITER OF CONDITIONS SUNffiCRAI C/J./!P» THkIL/J®, 週 IN THE M.TTER OF AH aSSJ'.ULT UPON PRIVATE RODHIGHES AT SIMSIRAI CAMP, TILlILiJD. A F F I D A Y I T. I I, 7261114 Serjeant CHARLES BEHRY of the Royal .jrrqy Medical Corps with pormrx-nt hone address at 12, prospect Terrace, ; 'ithwell f Chorley, in tho county cf L^icashirc f lxike oath and say as follows 1 # ェ was taken prisoner at SINGAPORE on l^th February 1942. I was in prison caiops as fcllov/s：-/ (a) Robert's Hospital, CH/J、了GI cn SIIJCi'iPOHE Island frcn l^th February 1942 tc 26th April 1943. (b) m transit by rail and road fron CHANGI to SUNC3CR.J： fron 2 6 ムpril 1943 till about 23 ypiV 1943. stopping for one night at aiJJCSPOKG, THIJlum. し(C) At SONGKRi.1, T H A I U M ) , frcn 23 my 1943 to 12 scpteiuber 1943- ！ (d) At Tx慕：Ti” BUR服，frcn 12 scptenber 1943 to 12 Deconber 1943* (e) At CH'JTGI, SINGAPORE, frcu 12 Dccenber 1943 to August 9th•1944. (f) At K R / j m , S I N U O H E , frcn 9 August 1944 to about 9 February 1945 • (g) At CHiiNGI fron 9 February 1945 tc 22 July 1945- (h) At a rubber state in J0H0RE supplying labour for tunnelling nearby under the new jchcrc pclicc Barracks• The senior officer was Captain HOLMVJ^D, 1st B^ttcilion, Tho J\/JinChester Rogiuent f fron 22 July 1945 until 21 “ugust 1945. (i) At CHa^GI until liberation on 15 S^ptcnbor 1945* 2. \jhcn at SUNGICRAI I was at No. 2 Ccuup (Death yallcy) and 订as fcrccd to work on the road during uy first nine days,ムt SUNGKRiJ thorc \7oro bcuibco buildings without roofs or sides. There uas nud. on the floors which had no foundations whatever. Above the floor there was bai^boc natti:. The first night 1680 prisoners cf \;cxr v/ere put into two huts about 200 netrcs long end about 24 f oet broad # it v/as raining when ue arrived and it continued all night« There was no covor whatsoever and the nonsocn rain CQIIG dcun and no one had groundshcets cr other protection. It scon bccarx； absolutely impossible tc lie there. The only alternative was tc light fires and koop warn by standing arcund then. Soue cf then crawlcd underne^. the officers 1 sleeping quarters and also under the officers 1 living ciuartcr Evidentiary Dccuriont 林 5し?^ 2 , …c stayed there all night until 0500 hours the following aorning when everybody paraded prior to going on the railroad the first day* -;e were given xic oppcrtuni ty cf clecjiing up or making the canp inhabitable # wore divided into groups of fifty and positions were allotted four niles cn each side of the cccip # yjy particular party was rx^rched about tliroo r.]iles fron the car.ip # it was raining very hard and we were very cold, onl^ getting hcilf a pint of ricc for breakfast, which was served at Q530 hours. Each m n was issued with a spc.de 9 a basket and a pick. started work ii-incdiatcly digging the road .nd wo stopped for ten x.J.nutcs every fivo hours. H-lf a pint cf rico xias issued c.t a quarter to one and then we continued• ixirclied back to the canp at I830 hours. This was the daily routino # ；jfter t\;c days of rain the camp ras nothing but a sea # Ko pro- tection was afforded against the rain» lyery ixm in the carp had to line j up in the dark for a furtlier quarter cf a pint of rice and vegetable stew ；at about 1915 hours• During tho day's work nobody v/as pemitted by tho I Japanese to leave the party if thoy were ill or hurt in any way^ jStov j ei^ht days, during which p(Dried it rained steadily, pain branches were ；placed on the roof as a protection and also cn the sides cf the huts, j Noticing was done about tho fleer and bolou tiie baiiboo m t s tho v;atcr j rushed through. Tlio nen hod to lio down cn the bcriboo, in the darjp. 1 4* On ^y scccnd day there, cholera broke cut # No preparation had been m d e for an isolation hospital and the cuaos could not be segregated, i^ftcr apprcximtcly a week frou the time cf ny arrival f the Japanese pro- vided a hut for cholcra eases and the fcllcv/ing day I itus sent as a ncdici. orderly for duty at the hut # This hut uas only partly roofed against the rain and the contra cf the hut coincided v7ith the coursc cf the water escaping doun tho hillside* Ttcrc uere bcu.ibco m t s on tho sides of the rail of the hut but there v;as nothing in the ccntre where the 13a j or part cf the water cano through• Thoro were so ニany casualties that there was insufficient rccn by the walls and sone had to lie in tho v;atGr« The hole in the roof wore so lcirgo that the rain can& through on to the nen who wcr lyin じ beneath. c had no i/atcr ether than wet or fron the roof, which wg had tc boil. There uas no accorxiodiition for the orderlies, who had to sleep anonじ the patients• N。 cholera inncculation was possible. j * 5* The casualties v̂cro carried to tho hospital by tho fit prisoners of \icx on ^oundsheets. Cliolcra being highly contageous, those nen uere frequently infected and diod 9 T^oro was no lighting whatever and when エ was on night duty it was impossible to rerxve the dead, who in ccnsequcncc had tc roiXiin among the living until daybreak. On the first day thirty- eight nen died and wore left outside the hut, nc provision being nadc for then to be rorx^ved • There uas a cromticn party of -Driscncrs cf v/cr but those could dc nothing becausc the Japanese refused to give then shovels or other inplcncnts uith uhich tc bury tho bodies^ There wore any niiLibcr cf tools bccausc they had to be used for digging the road. These thirty- eight L^n v/cro loft outside the hut for tuo days, only scr.;e of then being ccvercd # lyontually after two days the Japanese gave facilities for I burying theu» gvidontiary Dccur.icnt ft 3 - 6 # ；jiother hut tos m d c available for dysentery cases. The japenes used tc tost all prisoners cf war for dysentery by putting either a piece of bouboo or a piece cf uire or a glass tube up the rectum. This was a painful operation for those who were fit • Tliey would take out persons who were extrcnely ill or dying of dysentery and would, carry out this tea! and this in bad cases definitely precipitated death by reason cf the pain and the fact of their being r.ioved # 7# Ccnvalescerxts were forced to carry bcaibcos long distances in the rain with bare feet f ？;ith the result that their feet v/erc torn and result- ing in ulcers, for uliich there r/ere no facilities for troatrient Y and oany of then died. 8. On or about 3〇 l^y 1943 I was in a working p^rty, cf which Frivate Rodrigues cf the straits scttlenents Volunteer Force was a nenber v r hen I got back to the caLip ェ scu? private Rodrigues tied to a tree and badly bruised about the face, which was very swollen. His legs were also bruised and cut, giving tho appearance that he had been d r a p e d . I was told (ェ forget by uhon) that a Korean guard, uhosc narae I do not knew, had attenptod to strike Rodrigues with a h o m e r , that Rodrigues seized the haixier to prevent its being used against hin, but that he was forccd to lot go and subsequently he was beaten up by this guard and the other guarc I did not witness the occurrence but Captain (padre) DUCKV/ORTH, Royal chaplains Dcpcirtncnt, would bo well avzarc of the circurjstanccs becaut he is sure to have intervieired private Hodrigues# ェ do not know which guards v;ere involved. Thore were about six guards and they \ioro all Koreans.ェ dc not knou any of their n..raos # private Rodrigues was tied tc the tree i/ith v;ire 二nd there he was left for forty-eight hours• It was raining throughout that period, ho was wearing shirt and shorts T/ith nothing else over hin» He was tied to tho tree iixiediately in front of the guardrooi: |ond in vicv; of it and anybody coning in or going cut of tho canp m s t have scon hin. Lieutenant AB2, the Cciip Coixjondant rjust have seen private pedrigues there as his houo was irxicdiatGly behind the ^uard- rocn. H© was 乙iven nedical attention afterwards but I do not know by v/ho. 3m The ODdiccil personnel at the coup consisted of Major a^WBUHYf Indian l/pdical service, Captain SIU/LT, Hoyal ĵriiy Judical Corps (Kilciya), Lieutenant TUH、TER, Straits sottlcncnts "Volunteer Force, Royal /jriiy IVpdiccl corps, and G Captc.in T7ho uas こ keen botanist j sor jecut 0'Grady ancl Corporal C^^thra, and ethers v/hoso ncmies エ cannot renenber • 10 # The senior officer in the coup was Colonel HINGSTOHE, Royal ；jray Ordnancc corps (?)• 11. Lieutenant 八BE, nlic was in chorgc cf tho caiop, was about five feet eight inches tall f well built rjid about ten stone； in weight • Ho was always v/cll dressed, usually ^Goriiig riding boots, HD used to ride a lyidentiary Dociu^nt f r 5072. horse. I do not kno^ the ncincs cf any of the Korean guards, who were all bad r.icn, nor any distinguishing narks about then, S : X m by the said CI-LJCLZS BEHHY at Headquarters, southern Corxiand, "Viltoii, in the county of v;ilts this Third day of January 194^ Before ne, ) � ) ) ) ) (Signed) C. BERRY, Sgt, Captain. Military Dex)artnont • judge Advocate General»s Oi'fico. )<f)Dft Evidentiary Docunent 林 503エ厶》 IMTERNATIO肌 I/HLITilRY THIBUIM FOE THZ FAR L/^T N o . 1 THE UlvITID STATES OF iJlERICA, and ors. 一 AGAE^ST - ilRMCE, SADiiO, and ors # エ鱟 PETER JOHN CAMPBELL會 m k e oath and say as follows: 1, W nunber f rank, name and unit is 11X35053» IPjor peter John Caripbell f attached iiq 2“xSC 8 エ became a prisoner of war in February 1942» and oarchedL into Changi on 17th February. 2. I left there in 1942. ue went to ipuliiieiii # in January 1944 v;e rjoved to Tamrkan camp in Thailand # The type of work done there v/as m i n l y repairing railway bridces, which were next to the car?), and on railroad maintenance # 6. The corner of T^^rkan canp was about 100 yards from a wooden railway bridge which spanned the river； 5° y^s, higher was a steel railway bridge. The line bordered one side of the canp. During the succeeding 12 months when エ was there these bridges and the ack-ack battery located about 200 yds, cutside the canp were bonbed on seven occasions麝 Repeated conplaints were m d e to the camp comandant about the danger of siting a POW car.p next to a military objective, and repeated requests v/ere m d e for pernission to m r k the canp as such； but this ^ot us nowhere # The result was that bcnbs several tiDes fell in the canip； bonb fragments were scattered far and v/ide throughout the canp; mchine-£jun bullets burst fron the planes and from jap observation posts spraying tho canp. Ack-ack shrapnel cane in in croat quantities, and nuiierous nen v;ere killed and injured # Jxi one raid alone t 18 men v;ere killed and huts set on fire» Bashings and ill-treatment were coimonplace occurrences; as an exanple： Capt, Concannon was nade to stand in front of the (juard house for 30 hours by Su^f Kircda at Tamrkan エ yitnessed this. That would be about December 1944• He is a man of 30• He had a li^ht on in the canteen, which had been lit contrary to orders by one of his nen working fcr hin - just one of these siaall nistakes that happen» 7, in February 1945 were shifted to K^nburi canp, which was on officers» camp # There v;ere about ^ t 00Q officers stationed there in car.ip f the dinensicns cf uhich f for roじ purposes, were 220 yds. by 120 r :e v;ere closely confined in this canp, so far as there were about four fences .and a deep bund, arid a 10 ft. ditch around it. The restricted j^vidontiary Document 梓 5 0 3ェ厶• 2. space led to colossal overcrov/diii^ both for sleeping and for sanitary purposes # Conditions were similar to T^narkan C^ipt otherwise• The corxiandont, C^pt • Nifiuchi, v/as an arrogant 9 sadistic type f who was very keen cn m s s pimishmGiits for offences ccixiitted by individuals, such as confining everybody into the huts for a period cf about 10 days 一 エ cannct rei.Bubor v/hat tho off nee wasinliat case 一 no roadin^, no lyin^ doim f no conversing, no parties of r.r>rc than six, etc, 8. on ono occasion I saw hini m k e a capt # Mirtin stand for 72 hours in front of the ^uard house for lockinc through a fence• That was at this Cc.xp at i:anburi about July 1945• Ho v:as standincto attention rx>st of the tine. He had to stand all the tine> there was no question of sitting down. He was civen v;ater and one rice ball a day. The Japanese allowed hin to nove away to relievo liiiisclf, Eventually, he had to take his boots off, and of course his feet c;ot sunburned and he ultimtely collapsed. C^pt. I、,!ar*tin is a barrister in Sydney, 9 # Tho worst tiling coixiitted by this C-pt• Nicuchi v/as against a British officer, noaed crower, 10. About the riddle of June, captain T：JI f Drovyer \ras askod by the Japanese tc (jive his opinion on the refusal of sone officers to do certain nienial tasks•lie ccnfirned their attitude and he was Immediately taken to his office t where Captain Hi^nchi and his adjutant beat him into insensi- bility with v;codGn swords and then put hin in a cell at the rear of the guardhouse • The japs then realised that as he was the interpreter he could undorstand what they wore saying so they then put hiri in a covered slit trerch, tho dinonsions of v/hich v/ere, say、3 by 2 ft. 6 ins. by 4 ft., which had about six inches of nud and water in it, and was infested with mosquitoes; Drov;er had only a pair of shorts; he had no blanket； he was only civon water and one ricc ball per day # Later on he was talcen back to the guardhouse v;here he v;as threatened with torture and after this he endeavoured to coimit suicide by strangulation and by cutting liic log open with, a rusty teapot spout • 11• On l6 August he was recovered by our doctors, who stated that he would have been dead in a fEV; noredays # He TTCIS insane, and had severe blackwater fover 9 ajid was terribly omciated； he liad not washed or shaved during the period 一 he had lone hair arid beard; he had not fiefacated for the tv/o iaonths in the 80 days lie was in the trench. 12• A Japanese interpreter, Capt. Drower told vb that a form of nental torture was introduced upon hin by the ja^-s in the ^uardlaouse； and Gil talk in the guardhouse was deliberately audible so that Drower could hear and understand, 13% At the end cf July, tho officers 1 canp at Kariburi coinoncod to be transferred tc a new caxip at rakou liyok # This was a distance of 120 miles. I left on 10 August v/ith the fifth party of 400 # \je started in open rail ejeods trucks, 30 inon to a truck, and reached B^iiukolc, a distance of l\.0 miles Evidentiary Dccuracnt # 3. after 29 hours travelling，！了e sat up all ni^ht 9 and had no sleep. We j then started unloading ba^a乙e into barges, and sat in a very cranpcd 1 position on the top of the lu^a^e in a barge about 6 ft. by 18 f t " and in which 67 nen were jarjaed* v;e sat up all ni^ht without sleep v with intense disccnifcrt ； and next day v;e went five nlles down the river tc a i loxce concrete warehouse； we slept there two nights on the concrete floors f with rain pouring down cn us because the roof had largely been 1 blown av/ay by bombing； then we entrained in s m l l closed steel railway vans, about 5 ft. by 12 ft•； these were first half-filled with bag^a^e and xie sat on top. ihe next 3〇 M e s took us l6 hours, and during this ni^lit v:e also had 110 sleep • ；;e then set off mrchirc with all of our {jear and as the rxijority cf the party v/ere sick Dutchmen it was a very slov; m r c h # ve took 36 hours to cover 3〇 nlles and during this period only had two hours sleep on the roadside in pouring rain. During the last 12 hours of the rjarchiif we had neither food nor water f except ditch rater f which we drank from the paddy fields. On arrival in the 1 nev catip the huts v;ere boinboc and attap, but v;e slept on the earth floor I on a basis of 15 uen to each hut bay, v/hich was 10 ft # by 18 ft # r/o j arrived there on 16 August 1945 • { / _ _ 一 . - 一 . — — _ • . . ^ ― * (Signed) r.J. Ci^BELL. SKcrn before ue at Sydney on the fifth day of September 1946. (Signed) A.J. li^NSFIELD. jud^e of suprene Court of Queensland. Zvidcntiary Docuiaont ガ 5074 IN THE MATTER OF ORBOSS IN THE I-^TTEH OF ATROCITIES COMvUTTED(ムT 口THURY 皿 S C 應 OF C.i/IP, SJuM,) H： SEPTIMELR 1943 i'uD IF THS RkTTISR OF TIIE IUHDER OF CiXT. Fぷ LEY LIB LUTJT, British 1.丁aticnal office Cbargo F。： United ivTaticns *;cir Crincs Cし]：issicn Refer-ncc： i, F F I D “ 7 I T. I. Kc. 365S367 C. r >J/i.S. GSOFRST I^TO'XES., 3ec^nnaissuncc Ccrps, with pemancnt address cit 3 ITustc n jjoad, Ijcrocai-ibo, nJ^e ccth say こ、.s fcllcv;s；- 1. ェ t?。-s t.Jccn prisoner in sin^epero cn 15th February 1 $ 4 2 .ェ steyed there until June 1942 x̂icl TJ,:.S then neved tc S I U . L - - T E R, in l.prch 1943 ェ ncvod to i:cj?.buri rrisoncr cf *;ar C^':p • irご.nburi yas the lioadCj.uarters cf K 1 - • 1 Group cf prisoner cf て,.or ;orkiaig C^nps, T^c. 7/ork wo uerc dcing vc.s on the Bangkok 一 iv/puliJiOin rしilvこy lino, r 1 Group consisted cf about seven outlying canps， OILし of \7hicii て7しs ccillしd sakcuctc_ vThen I arrived at Kan bur i ェ was put to v;crk in the ccck-housc there,ごユid し11 tho tine I uas with 1 Group ェ stc.yod at Kr.nburi itself arid did r^t gc cut tc any cf the cut lying canpsj と• The Japanese and Kcrocn personalities Lit K^biiri r/erc as fcllc^s： Lt • Coim. Lt. Lt. Ocla I^ancnutsu C c u d a n t , Other Liciabors cf his staff were： This had been educated in ょjuしrica :?jid hud been tliorc jj yccxs', ccnscqucntly he cculd spc:^ absolutely fluont Ui^lish. Tlie r # c # 0 s . rcro： Sjt. Ejcca Sjts.'.utanabi T^orc ';;oro tve .•！/.tanこbisf cno cf tlicn vas nodical and the ctLcr in cidninistrciticn。 Tho {guards r/ore p-rc-^ns. T^c encs invclved in those particular atrocities yero ccllcd: • K^nashira Yc.sinctc V/hese niek-11じ丄IG b^ us "The TJlidcrtcikor ” There v/erc rjDro guards involved, but I comict r^ricnbcr their nozics. IT/identiary Docuiucnt ji 5074• 2 . Si'-iith (S.S.V.F.) Sl-t cr ICni^htG Mci:。y Lonax (Rcyし1 sis:しIs) The day before these five Eritisn c.fficcrs \;crc bec.tcn the v;holc ccxip uas earned that there m s tc be a be citing thr.t ni^ht, but there w しs tc be nc deixnstration T/hatsccver； trcops v:ould r e m i n in their bed spaces, othor- uisc a nassacrc you Id take piacc 0 エ ncticcこ that there v;ere rxichino £juns in the guard roou, presumably ready for this« ムt 11 c 'clock that ni^ht the beating started.ム11 five of these British officers v;ore beaten in nuch t,:c sci:h way us Serjeant Lffijcr Thcw • I./pjor suit し uas c.hx st killed and Lt • Loucjx had bcth his fcrcar::^ broken as a result cf trying tc prctcct hiLiself. But I did net witness those incidents owing tc tho canp crdor；ェ c.nly heard tho scroaiis and the nciso cf the- took polos cn tho 3 , in septeuber 1943 the Japcncso found a rrirelcss set whic/i had been m d e by Serjeant l./pjcr Thew and a friend cf his callod sjt • S^iith. ibis set uas found on Serjeant Mijcr Thciv 1 s bed at jerking C^^p. A fev/ days 1しter Thew v/as sent dewn to Fanbiiri and was stood outside the guard rocLi uhon he r.rrivud 0 ェ rGueiber seeing hin there. 4 . At 11 p.n. the japc.noso began boating Serjeant They, llcne cf us uere allcired tc sec v;hc.t was going cn cxccpt the British Ccumnfiant 書 C^pt. Ren\;ick cf the sh or weed ]7crr esters i;hc uas called cut spccilly tc witness i t .ェ wcis cn duty in the ccok-licusc cibcut 100 ycxds avay and ェ heard the vhole incident. Serjeant m j o r Ifcew v/as beaten fcr un hour and a half • The method of beating yas tc strike hiu cn the snail of the back end on the thighs ^ith heavy tecJc p c l o s ,ェ cculci hour the thuds cf the poles us they struck lain, Tyory ncav and ag^in thero wculd be c short spell vrhen Thcv: uas irxterrcgatod about his uiroloss set • The japoicsc varied the beatings by striking hin cn the facc v;ith woodGn olegs. '."hen it was all ever T^ew uas loft in c. crunplod heap outside the guard rcon for four days. On the first day he was brought dcv;n to the cock-licuse fcr sen。tea which ェ gave hin. At first エ did not roccgnisc tho NAN； his vhclc body T;GS narked r;itli weals, his jay was crocked as though broken, end his IV.ce badly narked as the result cf blcws with the ¥/ccden clegs. His nc so appeared tc bo broken and his legs up tc his kidneys vere c. ix:ss cf black bruises. H^ alsc had a very bad eye injury which was suppurating® I did not sc^ 1 m af^er that, v..s fcr the rest of the four days rice c-nd tea moto brought to hin end •he stayed outside the gucxd rcon out in the cpen # i x t the end cf the fourth day he r/as taken to hospital r-herc I saw hin again, “t th- t tine he was baroly ccnscicus and ェ do net think he knov/ what he xicxs dicing or what was happening. It was disccvcrod in hospital that as uell us his other injuries he had a burst car drun. There is nc doubt thcit し11 the pcrscnalities エ have ncnticncd toe}: part in this boating. Tho day after Thcw was allcTred intc hospital five British officers ucrc brought dcwia fron S^kcnoto to Kaiiburi for a beating. They were； • • J . J . J • • 取放购ひLt Evidciiticiry Dcciincnt ガ 5074. 3. victims» bodies. 、”hen that xrcis over the five cf thui were left cutsicie the guard roon for one day； they were then relieved tc hospital。I san then in hospital and hoi pod tc food then as ncne of then v/ero able to feed thei^ solves. Their injuries wore terrible。 6. The day after that four r^ore British officers v/ore brought in tc K^nburi for bjating« I Tliey yere； Capt. H^wlcy C^pt • Gre^jg (7th Coastal Bt: L'b • Arr iitage Lt, Gilchrist (S-D.F.) As it turred out, reither C^pt <, Gregg nor Lt • Gilchrist were beaten, but こt 11 c«clcck that night C^pt 0 H^vley and Lt. î ri-iitage were nurdered. i^ain, I did not witness the incident f I only hoard the noise cf the beating, uhich 1しsteel in each case for about three-quarters of an hour, in each ease yan dcr syden v/as called out, but before he ^ot to where tiic beatings were going cn he was notioned back by Kanei^itsu. f • The next day two soldiers, B^r. Rider and Gnr • C^vaiiey, whe were in the work shop about tv/onty y^rds behind the japrjaese guard rooia t found a ^ed Cress issue trilby hcit in the swill pit， They also slept in that little hut and told no aftorrvards that they had heard the japc.nese guards drawing shovels from an adjacent tool house, There is no dcubt in ijy Lilnd that HOTlcy and ijrr.iitage uere beaten tc death and buried necrbyj] ana there is also no doubt in r.iy nind that the jaDcmese personalities whon I have nenticnod above were し11 responsible for these beatings as they nust こ11 have taken their turn at striking these British officers and Gerjeant 8. I uculd describe Lt• Ccrii as a nen of abcut 4〇，heij^ht 5 5 ins., weight about 10 stono, very thick set; round face and flat nose and looked norc 1-ike c. monkey than anything else, Lt c Ocla was aged about 27, about 3 ft • 8 or 9 in So tall, rather slin, v/ei^ht about stone j he had nonkcy-likc features, hi£;h chock bones,lon^ jav/ aid was norc slant-eyed than the j*apしnesc, upper tooth pronincnt• iraiiGrr.tsu, oirin^ tc his lcng stay in ^orica, had rather lost his Japc.nosc features; ho uas whiter than the ixijority end norc square cut rirjless glasses of こn American fashion. I-jc was aged about _5〇， hcijat ft # 9 f wei^t about 11̂ - stone. He hc.d had varicose vein trouble and he had had tlic affected veins taken cut, so that he dia not have actually a linp nor cxactly a ncrrxLl walk; he iioved slowly arid rather stiffly e ho v/as, prcpcrly specil.ing, a civilian interpreter attached to the Japanese 丄；ri.y uith a lioutcnaiit f s rank, and he were on his left brocst a bluし plaque upon v;hicli v;oro five overlapping stars gradually Evidentiary Document ガ 124°75o decreasing in size, of the sorjeants and Kcroan guards they uorc all very nuch tlie sano in build, about 5 ft, 5, typically built low-class Japanese or Koreaa coclic typeu. SVrORN by th〕said GEOPREY KN0M11S こt 6 Spring Garde:as in tho city of 'vestiiirister tl' is ciehtl.. day of November 1945 ) ) ) (signed) G. HTO..XES. Esforo ne (Signed) “ M t BUL-M.ODOITiJLT'. Capt, Legal st^E'f» Mil. Dept. Office of J.i,.J. London. Certified true oopy： (Signed) -R.B,し.JVBE, Lt.Colonel: A VJT • 、 ：ar Criaos, Hi iiFSH.. Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. て フ ン 只 ET THE M̂ T-T'ra OF ；TAPi^EfS 1/AP CH'G'FS MID IN THE m i T E H OF THE OF (.、? • AT 腿BTJIil 3 KÔ PiTxi：, 5 5TH m)丄）LM JULY A F F I I A 7 I T • / I, S'^b-Lieu tenant j C^JJN of t.'ie lather lends 2ast indies ぶ:njy, make catl上 end say as fcllo7?3 : - ！ 1 0 Cn the 8i,h Mxrch J ；[ nas captured and taken prisoner by the j Japanese Arnjy at SillOOSNG^ /AV^.； and was su^^oqiient： ly transferred to SI^M ‘uhcre prisoners of ^iac v/^ro つ:、plcycd on •にい b i.11ling of the EANC2CCK_'Ll r JLMSIN ！ railway, i speak japoi^esc and c-.i Ciio v o u s jamps ェ ucis at acted as inter- preter. 2. On the 9七h ji;..ly 3943 a七 one o-'clock in the inornig I was a;7akened by the jc.pc.nese guard じoni^indcr of s ^ f f G ^ P v Group 1；lOi^BGHI? who told mo that 167 sick men had arr.i^3d f rom tho j.jit、ンle 0 ェ wen.t to the ontrcnoe of the camp but found only apprcxlum3ly 4〇 patients there vho locked filthy, underfed and very s i c k .ェ asked tiao Japanese in charge of the sick party where the r e m i n - der of this party were a H^ replied that the remainder were not very fit to walk and that they coining in slowly e I iinnedia-tcly -«:ent back and asked for 20 volunteer strot cher-beai^ers. 3» ，.70 went to tho station and found that along tho 3 kilometre stretch th^t separates the railr/ay station .from the ccuiip； sick men v;ere crawling and lay about the ground, ',7e picked them up as ye found thciri« ：/e also caine across a Dutch mcdical orderly rrho told ug that he t?しs the enly orderly that had been j sent nith this tran^pcrfc ivliich ccnsis-i/ed of bori -beri, dysentery, tropical i ulcer and cholera patients. He told us that thoy had been 4 days cn the road ；and that 3 of them h“d died cn the way e At six o »cicck in the morning the last j man was fcund and brought iiレ All the sick were ^ivon shelter in the foot- ！ baths cf the atap hut3 in our canp 0 ！ • . ! 4« At nine o'clock ェ qqxj the adjutant cf Group 1 , L t a ZOFialf v;ho said tc j me that hot he was どoiiis tc cpsn a nov; hospital® hg called ever 6 prisoners of vex who vrcre in the vici::J ty and or'ored them tc brock doim the fence v;hioh separated our camp from the cavalry re^in^nt called Y^adユ Eutcii # Tho day before tho Japanese and tiieir horses ho.d moved out,lecving 20 oicpty huts, 3 vrith and 17 without plaxforraa, m mcst of tho hn:s the filth of the animals T：しs still on the cji-ound, The Japanese Lieut.enaii the order that t-he 1 6 7 sick, v;ho T/ere under the command of the Eutch Captain CLAASZ 3 had to be moved to this new cczcp，.viUn an hour。 T^^re uoro no dcctcrs^ no medical orderlies ncr cook-hcuee pc-r-sonnel at； that time so ェ vrent over to the Dutch doctor, j C-pt • KOOHDHOEI-HSJ：!こ^i him if T could apply tc the Japanese for him tc ：go over as a volum,oor 3 Ho uajoediately agreed and the Jcpan^sc Lieutenant cave his permisGicn fcr this doctor cud other modi cal orderlies to 已 o over j and attend to the sicki It took, hov;ever, several hours to persuade the Japanese to let a working party of 5° c^n し”t七しnd to cook-houso and hy^icno necessities. The only definite pcrrnssicn \;h:».ch v;as w“s thし:1;medical staff would be sent from the jungle caiiips or the base hospital, it -cock approximately a fortnight to get soniG staff and the man r̂ho had i-uen put in cliargo of the camp then was the British 1/ji.jor BLUCK, K-A.M.C-, v:ho 〜:i丄1 ceirfcLdiily be cblo to ^ive a vivid picture of his first ii^prossions. Evidentiary Dccuir^nt トto. 5275• ̂ B7 thxc tino the ncdi.cal slr̂ iff acri^cd the hospital housed 1,522 patients and tho nunbor cf doad ':ctcJ.lod approxiiuatGly 7 tc 12 a day. it took 10 days before the j'apenose supplied cjiy nedicines«； On the third day after this hcspital had been cponcd ：： Vad ? cn instructions of F00RDH0H r -HBGT» a tcilk yith tho Japanese captain, Doctor MORI, r/ho was in charge cf the nodical doparmont cf tho Japanese priscner of ',;ar “dninis- traticn in TH/'̂ IÎ JTO -xS a result cf thi3 -';alk, on the fifth day the hcspital was supplied uii-h a ccrtain quemtity cf Dilk, cigarettes, butter, coffee and sugar， 7# The people mixijy rwpensib] 3 yere the Japanese prisoner of *,;ar General Hc^GuarTors stoi'i'弋11シつど0」マ0バ& Tiio hospitcl cane under direct ccnnand of the Japanese Hoadquortors,, Dcctcr MCHI being in charge cf the medical side is ctiruQ?.nly firs” c.f r.ll \;o blruue ; bat also General S/IITO and his adjutant wore fully a^aro of •リhe filthy conditions and the horrible circuListonccs in which this hospital v/as opened because an officer cf the japancsG General staff, prisoner cf Ccrricind r visited the hcspital on the third day。 Even in the uonbh cf August aftor a certain Captain McGREGOI cf the Ifilciyこ volunteers had been building platforris and repairing reefs, dysentery patients \iaro still lying on the ground in a hut without platforp」 8, British doctors in this hospital v:ere Captain CHURCHILL 迎な M^jor BIACI, and tho c m p Ccrinandcr for the ncrx-ncdiccil side was I^jor TムTE DE LA PORT. 9. The cai.ip was placed in the raiddle of jliiy 1943 under coixiand cf a jnpanese serjeant, *. r ATiJMABE» v;hcso gnoral conduct uas good and who did his best tc help the different authorities. S.TOHT by the said T o Q. C 遍 at 6 spring Gardens in tho City of v.'estninster th\3 18th day of Dccenbcr 1945- Bcfcrc m , (Signed) J c C A W , (Signed) F, HOHIG. Captain Legal stcjft e Military Dcpai'tncnt • judge Advocate General»s Office^ London, Certified true copy s (Signed) K,J. RITCHn；, Lt, for Military Depirby, JAGo ： , . : な i ^ Y ^ Doc. Ko. 5450 f ‘ Pa^e 1. Synopsis of Evidence a) Prosecution Document numbered 5128； the Affidavit of Major PU CRAWFORD, is now offered for identi- ^ fication ? ths marked excerpts thereof being produced in evidence. This document states that in June 1943 5 the witness was appointed Officer commanding "K" Fores, a Unit of 230 P/W nedical personnel designed to give medical assistance to coolies and P/W employed on the construction of the Burina/Siani Railway. The witness states that the journey to the working sites involved for marjy gangs of coolies 5 marches of indescribable hardship. Conditions in coolie working and hospital camps were disgraceful and a grave danger to the lives of those living therein® The witness further states that:- "In these camps, at some periods } there -were no or quite inadequate sanitary arrangeinants, the entire aamp area beins, consequantlyj heavily con- taminated with feces» In practically no camp was a satisfactory water supply provided, the g-oneral source being raw river water even with cholera prevalent c Sleeping acconiaodation was in nany cases quite inadequate or of the most primitive kind. Tents were generally and huts frequently not weather proof; coolies often had to sleep on the ground, Blankets wore not provided, an occasional sack being issued as a substitute, and the clothing issue fcr coolies was at most a flimsy sarong. The food supplied to labourers was frequently 'poor 1 or 'bad' and quite below the level necessary for the maintenance of good health in individuals doing heavy manual labour« "The unsatisfactory conditions here described were conducive to widespread disease of many kinds, the principal of which were dysentery, cholera, pneumonia, ulcers and deficiency diseases, Conditions herein- before described apply not only to male coolies but Doco No, 5450 Page 2 "but also to womsn and children who were brought by the Japanese to work on the railway0 "Arising from these gravely unsatisfactory living, feeding and working conditions sickness among labourers v.'as ever considsrable periods enormous, and the indifference of the Japanese, their failure to take steps to combat sickness ? their failure to supply suitatle and adequate medical supplies con- stitute criminal neglect. The Japanese were in the vast majority of cases entirely insensibls to sick- ness and hardships suffered by the labourers and their attitude indicated only a deterninaticn to com- plete the railway at all costs v;ith complete indifference to the number of deaths that might and were caused thereby. "Any efforts that fr K" Medical Force might have made to help the labourers were virtually nullified in advance by the conditions under which they had to work and for which the Japanese medical administration at all levels is directly responsiblec "(a) The Moclical Officer and his staff worked ' u n d e r the orders of an ignorant and ill-trained Japanese medical NCO cr privates (b) The Medical staff of "K" Force v/ere, at the whim of the Japanass medical orderly so restricted in their access to sick coolies that co-ordinated policy and continuous treatment were impossible t The medical force (including Medical Officers) was largely employed on manual labour, and Medical Officers were generally submitted to degrading and insulting treatment such as the performance of manual labour, working in Japanese kitchens and. as servants to Japanese. ,Doc. No. 5450 Page 3 "(c) There v/as extreme inadequacy of medical equipment and supplies 0 *»..o" Examples of the incredible conditions in individual camps are given indicating the similarity in the neglect of the basic humanities and in the evil treatment accorded to the men in all the camps mentioned 3 b) Prosecution document numbered 5136. the Affidavit of Captain F. H. WALLACE I,H.S a is offered for identification, the marked excerpts thereof being produced in evidence. This Affidavit confirms the conditions of coolie camps and the treatment of coolies set out in the preceding document Nc. 5128. The present witness states that when coolies suffering from cholera at Kinsayok were thought by the Japanese medical NaC.O. to be too ill to recover, they were pushed into a small lean-to shelter of attap and left to die. They were given no food or water e Coolies who were suffering seriously from cholera were often forced into common pit graves and buried alive。 Pro- test from the coolies meant they were beaten down by Japanese orderlies. In July, 1943, while giving anti-cholera inoculations to coolies, the witness saw them beaten and humiliated. Women were insulted, disinfectant was deliberately sprayed into the eyes of some coolies and the Japanese doctor himself beat them as they were "being examined. The doctor explained to the witness that Coolies were sub-human and not worthy of consideration. c) Prosecution document numbered 5256, being the Affidavit of R. E . PETERSON, is tendered for identification and the marked excerpts therein offered in evidence. The document states that: / ,Doc. No. 5450 Page 4 'In Februarj严1944, I was in a coolie camp known is CHAY1I0NGA。 On the 14th February 1 9 4 4 - , エ con- tacted a Japanese known to me as Arai (Storm Trooper) Hayashi Karneatsu, We were in a coolie camp which was also a hospitals "Karneatsu proceeded to a coolie camp to inter- view coolies in the hospital. He had a hypodermic syringe filled with a red unknown fluid^ He ordered ‘1 * '"I 'I l_l_TWfMWI,| ~~i—rin 'i i i "11 ,mi»i_wi»iiwiwwHMi.lP»W，-*Krijyrro—^ the coolies down from their beds and asked them if I IN 一 - - T T F L " 丨 M . . , | , _ — „ ^ there were any who could not v/alk, he told them they were going to be moved to a base hospital and those ’ 1 Several staggered forward and were given an injection of the fluid in the big vein in All v/ho were inoculated died within a few When the remainder saw what was happening they could walke When he had finished he proceeded to the dysentery hut 8 "He looked through this hut and walked away。 Later he returned with a large tin of brown sugar in which was mixed a deadly poisoru He gave the coolies this to eat, telling them it was good for them a "All who ate this poison died during the day,». d) Prosecution document numbered 5370, the solemn affirmation of THAKIN SA, is now offered for identification and the excerpts marked therein, offered in evidence. The document states that in order to enable the Japanese authorities in Burma to obtain sufficient labour for the construction of the Burma-Siam Railway, they recruited coolies, When the promises made by the Japanese to the labourers failed to materialize, they press-ganged every available person into the Labour Force, since willing recruits were the elbow a minutes. they s no longer to be found , D o c . No. 5450 Page 5 The witness was appointed a Superintendent of Labour at Thanbyuzayat in December, 1942, to look after the interests of the coolies as far as possible t He found that men were only released from the Fores when they were used up physically and no longer employable» ".coco ® oLiving accommodation provided for laborours at the camps was insufficient and insani- tary. The area where the work had to be done was very damp and labourers had to live in barracks which could not keep cut the wet e Barracks intended, for 150 persons had to house as many as 300. Clothing shortage was acute; when the clothes which the labourers brought from home began to fall into rags, gunny bags were supplied to them to do duty both as wearing apparel and as blankets» No change of clothing was available to most of the labourers and none was provided by ths Army„ Tho result was that the clothing of almost all labourers was crawling with vermin and most of them were suffering from a virulent type of skin disease 6 Food supply was not sufficient 5 and the rice supplied was weevilly。 "Water supply in this area was a carrier of malaria; but steps were not taken to sterilise the water supply, except for a pretence at boiling the water for potable purposes« Medical supply consisted only of quinine and even this was not in sufficient quantities. Cholera broke out soon in the camps and the Japanese sought to combat the spread of this epidemic by cremating the dead and very often persons whom they considered incurable. There were many authentic cases of live cremations 8 "Labourers were treated as slaves5 whips and sticks were freely used on the labourers; and sickness ordinarily was no excuse. "There was a total lack of system in allotment of labourers to the various camps. As the labourers Doc* No. 5450 Page 6 "arrived at Than'Dyuzayat； they were either driven up in lorries or taken marching through the camp. Officers in charge of the camps wculd pick out persons tliey wanted| families became separated, the husband being retained in one camp and the wixe sent th another camp, the parents going to one canp and the children to other campso a ».»This lack of system and the haphazard manner in which the labourers were taken into different camps made it impossible to trace the laaoursrs later e Many cases had been known of families then separated never c o M n g together again. c .. s .„" In March, 1943 ? the Ilou]mein Civil Administration was ordered to supply 7?000 labourers within 5 days. Intensive press gang methods followed this order,, Between April and July 194-3j about 5 -jOOO labourers were sent from Rangoon to Thanbyuzayat to join "The Sweat Army"» The Japanese prevented the Burmasc Latcur officers from taking any active steps to help the coolies and were not even allowed to maintain indeperident; recordsc e) Prosecution dccurnsnt m:ait -red 5371 y the statement of KAUNG AYE KO is tendered for id^n-cifioatica and the excerpts therein offared in evidence, This docmnent confirms the evidence of the last witness in Prosecution document No. 5370. The present witness became a Labour Officer in 1943. He found the ill- clad labourers } fevered and hungry, living in disgusting conditions. A large number of men were malarial5 many suffered from jungle sores exposing the bones and the vermin infesting tlienu Deaths at Kycntav：/ Camp averaged about ten a day. Cholera was rife at Kycnkaya• The dead and dying were piled together and, soaked in petrol, burned. Man wera beaten savagely and on one occasion the witness found the decomposing bodies of two men who had been left to rot as a warning to P/!7 and labourers, Doc. No. 54-50 Page 7 In or about October, 1943, six P/W escaped from Kilo 126 Camp. On recapture they were beheaded。 The witness states that he saw so many floggings, beatings and deaths, that it finally left no impression on him* . - , 著 Evident icxy DccuL^nt f-. 3128• I1T THE l^TTER OF JiT.^ESE •ごぶ C H E S S .J® III TIE LTTER OF TEE ILL-TREATI.E3T, TORTURE AHD C n n m X KEGLECT OF COOLIES LABOUEIPS ON TEIE SIAIトHJra.仏 ailL ^Y BETWEEN TIIH YEL'JRS 1943 通 1 9 4 5 • i, F F I D V I T, 3 エ，I!Pj r nobrt Crauford f fcrocrly of the jchore Volunteer EP-;jineers,ritli perixinent address in U J。 C / o i:orcantilo Bank of Idia Ltd # ,15 Graccciiurcli street f London, t rxil:e oath and say as follows： ！ 1 . I uas taken prisoner by the Japanese at sin£japore cn 15/2/Zj2 | and on 25/6/43 エ〜ras appointed officer conoandinし Force, v;hich uas 丨丨 a conpany of 230 ijcdical personnel cf all ranks, felon^in^ to British I； and DGiuinion Forces v;ith a fer Dutch, and which uas intended to Lxrve ! to tlio Giai.>Burm Railway tc Lrin^ riedicalassistance to coolies of all j nationalitios (and to rO T *' f s) employed on the construction of the said I railv:ay # in iiy capacity of radical Officer,coixiandin^ that fore, I had j the opportunity of obervin^ tlio nedical f hy^cinic and gneral conditions j under v/hich Indian f Chinese, ralay, Javanese, Burnese and Eurasian (a |i fov:) coolies Ti r c.>rkod and lived under Japanese ccnimncl between 1943 . I 1945- 1 j 2 . yhe narrative contained in tliis ny affidavit is concerned with J! ny personal experience and cbservaticns and with iiifcrixition gathered :j directly frcn uedicalcfficers and other ranks cf Force # ji • 3» General j The number cf coolies eployed by the Japanese cn the ：siai^-Bir^ Railway cannot be ascertained definitely, and estitttes vary I frcn 75,000 to 250Q00. It is probably that abc,ut 100pOO were so eraployed Tiie journey to the ucrkiix; sites iKclved for any gng of coolies 、narches of indescribable hardship, lasting in scue cases up tc ten dcys, j; in ncnsocn rains, and responsible for heavy iiortality and Liorbidity, • " Ftcli observations m d c by ne and fron statenents niade to no by I nenbers cf 叮：《 Force it is established Lat conditions in coolie v/orkin^ |) caiijps and coolie hospitals alike,e•し• Hint ok canp, Upper ironcuita camp, I l T iki 3rid6-buildin^ caiip, 73 i:ilonetre canp, Lon^'i CaLiburi Nc # 2 hospital car^;, Unxxyei hospital cqlip, ITinsayoke hospital caup and rxa:y •‘ ethers f r;erc so far below any standards cf western civilisation that they 5 can be described as dis^aceful and a cave danger to tlie lives cf tlicse 'i livinj in theu in these ca^s* at scne periods, there v;ere no or quite inadequate i| sanitary arrangenents, the entire CCLI.̂ ) areas biizc 9 consequently,heavily i ccntcuxiinated with faeces # m practically nc cchai： was a satisfactory I T/ator supx：ly provided,the general source fein^ rar; river rater even uith ！ cholora prevalent • sleeping acccnniodation was in m n y cases quite j| inadequate or cf the m s t priiaitive kind # Tents were generally and huts i frequently not v;cathor-i-roof ； coolies often had to sleep cn the gpound. I Blankets v/ere net provided,an occasional sacl: beinし issued as a sub- stitute, and the clothing issue for coolies v/as at nst a flii^sy saronc, I The- food supplied to labmrers vas frequently «pcor» cr »bad» j； and quite below the level necessary for tho niiaitenarxce of ^ood health in I individuals doinr heavy miiual labour» !j Tlie unsatisfactcry conditions here described v/ere conducive tc j! widespread disease of roany kinds, the principal of uhich v/cre dysentery, cholera t j)nouLicnif: t ulcers and deficiency diseases. jiyidcntiary DccxiLient ；ゲ 5^28. 2 . 、 5 . conditions liereinbofore described aiply net only t Qile coc丄les byt also to T.'cnen and children who i;ere brought by the Japanese to v;ork on the railway• 6 # “rising frora these じravely unsatisfactory living, feeding -.and ！ T. r crkin^ conditions, sickness aL.on^ labourers v/as over considerable i periods onomus, and the indifference of the jaj anese, their failure to | tal:e stc^s to coubat sickness, their failure to supply suitable and ！ adequate riedical supplies constitute criminal ne^ect• The Japanese uere i in the vast mjority of cases entirely insensible to sickness and hard- ！ ships suffered by the labourers and their attiude indicated only a deter- nil nation to conplete the railv/ay at all costs T/ith complete indifference to the nuiibor cf deaths that and v/ero caused thereby, ；7• Any efforts that Hedical Force juiî ht have imde to hej the I labourers v;ere virtually nullified in advance by the conditions ；under which they had to v/ork and for v/hich the Japanese nedical“‘ | administration at all levels is directly responsible. (a) ihe i-pdical officer and his staff ycrked under the orders of an ij ignorant and ill-trained Japanese nedical IJCO or private, rb^ The nedical staff cf ^rn porce were, at the whin of the jaranese ；! nodical orderly so restricted in their access tc sick coolies that co- ！j ordinated policy and continuous treatoent were iLpossible # The nedical I force (including i,/^dical Officers) was largely employed cn nanual labour, ！ and judical officers were generally subidLtted to de^radir^ and insulting ：treatment such as the perfornance of m n u a l labour, vorkin^in Japanese j kitchens and as servants to Japanese. (c) There was extrene inadequacy cf nedical equipnent and supplies• ！ 8, The following are exarap.les of conditions in working.canps：- (a) r m ^ O K L 1 jungle canp> July-;.u(just 1945- ！ Leaky tents* Feed - suall quantity rice v;ith two or three fresh chillies, i poor hygiene• in July deaths reached 20-30 daily, the population bein^* i about 1500. (b) im-TTO'C G〔丄*• - nil. sickness colossal. During cholera ；10-14 deaths daily, but nany never found. Cliclera cases driven into I jungle and abandoned # ii (c) U17IR I:0NCUIT及 stren.|h about 3 000 but estinated that 10 j tc 20 per cent of criminal strength. disappeared on the niarch to the camp. ‘1200 sicしdaily• Deaths during October 1943 - 382• (d) 1マ11:エ Eridへe-buildin,: C ^ It is estimted that 1500-2000 ccolies died in this cai^) in a period cf six nonths # T^eatnent accorded coolies described (by 5932200 Sut. G # D . Chandlen, 2/caribs) as "terrible Fractures from ill-treatment seen. Ili^h suicide rate 一 probably 20-30 in six months • (e) 73 IGXOMLTRS C ^ » B u r m . 5 0 0 Burnese labourers. Deaths averaged 2 daily ever 3 iionths. ^vera^e daily nuriber at v;ork about 200• \ 9參 The fclloT?inc are excaHplos of conditions in coolie hospitalsj- ⑷ CLJIgJia ]?。• 2 Ccolie iiosvitul. Average number of patients 2000 or rjore # conditions in dysentery wards and wdeath-house»» indescribable. Coolies sent to death-house struck off ration strength. Complete B^n r。n“ Hospital 3〇〇 deaths Canburi 2 Hospital 5000 Ilinsayoke “ 2000 Niki « 2000 and so on Canburi 1 Hospital :7anyei Hospital rcncuita « i\ppuron A sunnation of all estii;iates indicates about 42,000 deaths ！. arxoit; 75900 labourers, and as the survey does not cover all canps, it is ：丨 fairly ccrtain that there T;ere 3〇,000 labourer deaths cn the railway• ji i| 11• The fcllovinじ instances cf specific 1丄1 一treatmt, brutality and j neglect v;ere repcrtc-d to rie by nedical personnel under xjy corxjand：- (a) 7349689 Sjt. R , joillen, R A W reported that f in the Takanioto Cap j at uiki sick labourers uhc were still alive nere throxm into a m s s ^rave ? 丨 he personally having observed mcvenoiits of limbs in the graves. The I Japanese TTedical officer of the v;as one niketa. (b) VX 5 0 6 6 6 rte. d.R. Bcardimn, ^J.1； reported that at luiiuontじ ；Coolie Hospital a considerable nuLiber of sick labourers were killed off j by overdosage cf inorphia and by the intravoDUs injection of air of j mercuric salts, a jnijcjiose private - 'Greenrants“ - togthcr with an il unknoTvn Japanese f uas responsible. T丄で hospital was under the adrlnistraticri of irudc B^tai (i^ajcr 2 r adc) 0 (c) captain P.« leniiox^ PuJ.E reported that at j\TC'. 2 Hospital, C^mburi, intravenous injections causing considerab© a^cny Giu-doath v;ere administered to a nuijor of coolies by a Japanese doctor, Lt. (d) 5932200 sjt. chandler, 2/oaiibs re; crted that a very sick coolie v/as taken to the cd c ,e of a coimunal gave and hit on the head with a shovel by a jai^mese serjeant and thrown into the 乙rave. He aio reported a coolie pushed off a bridge at jjilei by a Japanese and drovmed, These incidents cccurrcd in a bridle-building B^tai (Osaka T^i) at Jjiki # } lyidentiary D^cuDiit 梓 5128. . 3- 丨 indifference on the part of the Japanese to suffering• Constant beatin^ j and unltreatncnt of patients for offences, real or im^inary* Deaths .over a period of 18 nonths numbered about 5 0 0 °t a finjure which is I regarded by m n y as an uiiderestimte. Frequent exaiiples of cross cruelty. (b) ncs-..ital # _vera/;e nunber of patients 1500； noximn 3300 i: in septenber 1943 with cross cverorcv/din^ and patients lyin^ in the open # 1! Estiraated 4 0 0 0 deaths in 1 2 :;icnths f September 1 9 4 3 bein^： the peak rx-nth I with 600-700. ill-treatnent cf coolie patients fairly frequent. (c) Hospital• ;,t first tents v;ith patients on t^round^ up ；'tc 1000 patients # Hospital run by 2nd Class japunese private省 Deaths j； estimated at about 2000 in 15 nonths. sick frequently driven out to I T^ork around cainu • I! |j 10. j mortality • iron estimtos and observations raade by nenber s of :"K" Judical Force it is certain that cent of the total labourers i- brought frcn 151Iし.ya tc siとぶ‘ and B u r m died there in the perioci $43-45 j and that by far the geater part cf this mortality occurred in the 1じst eiしlit nonths cf 1^43. 1300 4000 1800 1200 Evidentiary Bociuxnt # 5 1 2 8 . 一 � 一 > ( e ) captain R . L . G t Dawson, RJ13: reported that t«zi judical officers cxiia 40 OTls t T7ho T7crc bcir^j l〜ムrchしd frcn Ifinsayokc to Niki were at T^najo billeted overnight in tents previously used l'or cliolura suspccts and which ncrc but a few feet d； y fron tcntscontaining active cholcra eases. (f) 7S68972 ptu poLC, R J C reported that at Niki Coolie Hospital the “ustralian i:caical Officer uas forbidden to visit two British :、0V7s suffcriit; fron typhus v;iic r;cre brought into the hospital and that an Indian dresser r;as fcrccd to adninister こ;11 cvordosc of uorphia with fata丄 rしsuits, (し）Captain "'^llacc, ijl.s. reported that at a Einsayokc check- ing station coolics underしoin^ rectal suab cxuaizition were,one after the other, kickcd biolcntly by the Japanese ncdical officer cf the Hy^ionc Butai (h) VX 37^91 ?tc # iiibbord, reported tliat レt No # 2 Coolie Hospital CQi-buri (under jtijor inado, already referred to) coolics ロere kept stcuidin^ for hours rith rciしIrts tied to the penis, a (i) 7J82349 rtc# Berber, R J D reportod that at Einsayoke Hospi- tal/ccolic suffering frcn ccrcbral malaria v;as kiclccd in the fucc by a Japanese soldier knov/n as r scarf acc (J； Captain ^D.^G^wn, JlJV> reported that vzlicn sick uerc bcinし evacua- ted alnost helpless patients v:crc nadc to cruul several kilonetres to the station or bar乙e, fron Finsayokc fiospital. (k) I la j or s.C. K a r d e l l , r e p o r t e d that at ConcuitQ Coolie Hospital he uas struck across tlie face by the Japanese ncdical officer, knoun as J o e , for refusing to cし‘rry out surgical treatnent of which lie, tlie sしid i.tijor rardcll, did not approve• ( I ) 1 3 7 7 2 Sjt, G.L.D. Lewis, SS'IT reported tli“t neubcrs of the Japanese Hygiene Unit at riki f during a rout ine rectal suab exaiDlnation, inserted a しlass rod into the valine of a Chinese uonmi exaninee, and beat a sick coolie alon^ to the cxarainaticn point where he collapsed and soon afterwards died and another atrocity of simlar nature # ( n ) 7 3 4 9 6 8 9 s j t. R . rullen, RJ: TC reported that at a jTiki Coolie C ^ p し coolie, suspected of theft, vas tied to a treef flowed and struck over the cenitals, that another form cf punislment uas the brinしinし of lighted banboo into contact vdth the body and face of coolies, causing severe burns. (II) Ciipt. H.L.G-. Daて：son, R'JU reported that at Upper Concuita Canp sick coolies T:erc used for the practicc of judo and thrown over the shoulders of Japanese and that they v/crc also beaten, ( o ) 7 3 3 8 2 0 1 rtc # E . I . jcncs, TtJXi reported that at upper T^inonta a coolie, accused of theft,v;as taken into the jungle and shot # Bctt:cen 人u。ust and December 1 9 4 3 • He also report ed that coolics, v;lio had stolen r ice t ucrc m d c to rxiintain a bent position over f i r e s , ( p ) VX 5 4 7 8 4 rtc. Ti.B, Cussen, •以J.C reportcd th^t at a Concuita ^bcut coolics, cLio丄era — suspccts, v;crc ^iven lar^e doses of uorphia and saturated potassiun pcrmn^aiiate solution fron which all of then died t / 3 4 1 6 2 6 sjt > R ^ Stoneuan^ reported thじt at '..jnyei Hospital し coolie, suspected of theft, T:US svun^ round by the h a i r . T^osc instances could be multiplied ad nauseai.i # 12_ ^ho Japanese udi.iinistration responsible for the uelfare of coolics (of which Col, Hatakav:a is knov;n tc be a ixnber) iiust be held answerable for - Evidentiary Document 孝 3128, づ - (a) The appallinしconditions prbvailin^ in m n y uorkig canps and hospitc^lfl； (b)せぷ crininally inadequate Licdicc.1 supplies for the treatijent of sick coolies and rO:s, and the shockiii^; conditions under (c) Tl^i^dtijaatdicaixstreu^pilifd to coolics and in particular to sick coolics; (a") The coarsc- and brutal treatnei.t accorded the coolics; (c) The fore in し of sick to v/ork ； ff ̂ ifee cclccsal ncrbidity and /jravo rjortality, rxich of whicli could and siiculd have been prevented. (q) The dGし r:.din己 und insult in し troatnent accordcd to Liedical officer: and their staff； and (h") in general the culculated and criiiincil neglect of eveii the nost clen^ntary provisions for the health and uelfare of the coolics, S770RN by the sしid ROBERT G U O P D ) at 6 si:Tinし Gardens in the city of ) ^cstrlnster this day of February Before OD, (Sifinecl) R. C U R D . 1946 (ROBERT CH^TFORD) (Signed) H. NEIL T：JSTERS. Capt" LeGこ1 Staff # F i l l .卿 t " X.G's Office, LOKEDON, S.17.1. Evidentiary Docui-ient jf. • ."JTID^VIT in the mtter of Japanese ;:ar Crimes and in the mtter of the ill-treatnent t torture, starvation and nurder of coolies on the sion-Burm Railway• •、THE DETOKZMT (Captain T/allace t Indian I laical Service) wishes tc oake the following statementt- lioiXi Address j unit: Captain Edwin Herbert マallace, I!ylnebeck House, Lake Rcad t M2DEniER3. -Testnorland. I.M.S Indian judical service f On Ex-r.O/.：. Leave, attached to India office, London 2. 3. Date & place cf (XiDture：15,2 # 1942« Singapore• Statenent of atrocitiesi (1)lONS^YOI: COOLIE SIAM. JULY t 1943• v .lien the Japanese i^dical Authorities (that is, the opinion of the Japanese N t C f 0 # in local charge) considered that coolie cases of CHOLERA v/ore dangerously ill and thought not to recover, or when the CHOLUJA H0Si:iT-X (a meagre hut holding 40 nixed British T . O S . ^ coolie patients) v/as full, then these patients r/cre shoved into a small lean-to skelter of attap leaves and left to their fate, lie provision was made for their foedin^ or drinking and the doctor i/c the Coolie Cholera Hospital was not ^iven necessary medical supplies cr staff to deal with these unwanted or excess patients. They :?ere left to die # エ saw coolies crawling fron this hut cn their knees be^in“ for food and their only answer fron the Japanese orderlies was abuse and kicks # m the Cholera Hospital itself the British H.0• i/c was overworked f under-staffed and so ill equipped v/ith instruments and dru^s that needles made fron bauboc f cut by thenselvesV were used for intravenous saline infusions necessary for the treatnent of chclera 0 This was seen by itself• ••Titnesses; Captain Christison, ！资jor Crav/f crd, It T?as said of cholera Hospitals in this area that excess or nearly dead coolie patients v;ere forcod into ccnrjon pit ,jraves and buried alive - if there was protest, the coolies were beaten dov/n with spades by Japanese orderlies. This fact I often heard suostaiitiatecl Dy many • "CFELer丄：Les fron different conps； eye-witness of this particular atrocity - JxiT-J^ESE CO瓶iKDAOT - Raines unknoun. jiVidentiary dccur-ient J j • (2) K I H Y O K COOLIS H JULY 1943* I was tcld, in 项 capacity as doctort tc accompany the Japanese M.O. of the J^'JIESE IMPERIAL A i m HYGIE1.IE UNIT, in order to {jive anti- cholera innoculations to coolies. ~ r e arrived at a Sanitary Cordon Hut on the path leading from the south alon^ the railway line then bein^ con- structed • “t dusk a lon^ procession of coolies, carrylnjtheir belongings and children, and utterly e^liausted, wallced through the control barrier and so onwards to the cangp where they wculd rest for the nioht • Instead of treating these coolies with consideration - they vjctc already starved and had walked all day carrying loads r/ithcut food - the Japanese 'doctors ‘ loade constant 'fun* of these exhausted coolies. Jĵ he usual procedure at .. these points (a necessary one since' cholera v/as rampant up and down »tho line» at that tirae) was for an exanination cf the anus with a “.lass, r^tal ,^r ^n^oo probe to be 5a5e> ana tue co。丄:te sprayea vxtb. a aisinfecxant • ：This was all done in an^atrocious rmneriFexaaXe coolies, naturally t | objectod to lifting up tlaeir skirts in front of a jeorixiG nob of white coated. Japanese and thuir rjany friends standing In the rear - these xvonen ：were picked out by the Japanese and often their skirts v/ere thrown riしlit ,.over their headst or their heads forced down to the jrcamd, whilst a lo.u乙::linし crowd oxai-ilned the i7cnan»s <private parts1 • If either a m n or a v；cnian f usually v/liite haire-d and exlaaus'ted, lingered or seexned uncertain of what to do they v;ere herded forv/ard by snacks all over the body v;ith I larc© banbeo sticks or poles # if there was any hesitation whilst the j spraying was done then the sroartin^ disinfectant was purposely sprayed ；into the face and eyes. Tho anal examination was performed by Japanese • radical orderlies, I ^ave the innoculations of anti-cholera serum; the '.̂ jraponese Mふliinself ctood at one side of the line of coolies waving a ：liû e stick and m n y tines, when ccolios v;ero bending down, he would strike \ then across the buttocks with a lar^^ bauboc pole, one inch thick at least, 丨 andl also kick then, on doin^ this he would leap up into tho air with clee and shouts of iiirth 9 with his orderlies joining in upon cach occasion # At ！ the sarae tino he himself v;ore a white face ni^sk, rhite coat and bi^ boots j and ho jot an orderly to spray hin all over every so often, on the way / bad: 9 in halting IXLしlis", he explained to r̂ y protests that these coolies ！ ucre in Lis opinion sub-hui.:an and not v;orthy of any consideration and i eeor^d. surprised that I did net take the sane viou; he then passed on to ! a discussion of hov/ Japanese surgical science v;as far in advance of the Britisli ana ぶerican efforts® Ji'^liKHSZ MtO.'s Unknot• I ！ '.Vitness； captain Brcivn, 198 Field ijnbulanco• (3) FECAL COOLIE :I0STITAL,133 孤 Sian B u r m Border, ； July, 1943 - January, 1944, Here was a very lar^e coolie hospital oven in the early days of i 1943• ratients who were considered likely to die, cr v/hose treatnent ！ would have to be prolonged, and r/ho f after be in じ cured and v/ere considered Evidentiary DccuLient # • 3. j of 110 further use as labour cn the railuay, were all put into the "Dead ; H o u s e n (narked so by tho Japanese thensclves). This was a Ionし badly m d e ；i]Ut,liable to floodingt ^t the river side and allotred tc gt into a riost i delapidatod condition and although 200-300 yards fron the rest cf the j hospital huts not provided v;ith its own firoplaces or kitcliexu The | Japanese nodical orderlies very rarely visited this place and did not i bother at all r/ith its adi:iinistration, and no British M.0. or R.A.M.C, ! orderly T/QS allowed to visit it # The consequence of this lack of i attention was that the "native« (Milay T^nil dressers usually) dressers j and the j/playan sorvico 'roi.dl "doctor" v/ho v/a3 really an ex-dresser, were ’in charge of this hut and seriously rdsabused their positicn» patients :v/ere left entirely without troatnent for m n y days cn end f food and i water v/as not supplied to patients unable tc rise fron the banboo franes ! on which they lay • the *stiiik" in consequence of unattended wounds and :unattended excretions of nature v/as alniost unbearable in the heat • I used | to visit this "Dead House and v;as told nany piteous stories by the i n m t e s _ tliey accused the so-called native dressers of not brii^iHt：、in their t7wn j neals" of rice and ciiillie uater (alloxvcd by tlie Japanese) unless thoy were Phrioed l;c do so _ son© cf then had oven to t)ay ton dollars ($10) for G i container o£ water• They crawlea about f or lay anyvfiere瞀 as best they j could•/ I consider the frightful state (there was one in every Japanese coolie serious nis-use of rjedical privilege by the coolie hospital• ^lie truth is that discustin^ that the Japanese thei^Bolves thoir r ュ edical responsibility JiC^TESE M^O's IUJE • forcotten. of this particular "Dead House" hospital)at that tine to be a the Japanese authorities running conditions in this hut were so preferred to keep away despite ritnecses：- captain J % L . Frew, Australian l.^dical service f (13 ••G.H.) Lieut, r. Tor.J.inson f F.M t S%V # F» (ivBlayon Judical service) Captain Gibson, R.A.M.C. (4) NEL1L COOLIE C1M\ JULY, 1943 - 1944> I lived in a tent opposite the ^uard-house cf the Japanese Military pclice (IdMPITバエ）• On m n y occasions I saw rnny coolies forced up the bi^r trees near the ^uard-house by Japanese usin^ long sharpened banboo poles• coolies had reached tho top of the trees and could go no further they v;ere repeatedly jabbed at by tho Japanese guards with these sharpened pclos f The cries cf fear and horror of those men could be heard all over the caiap t and they r;ere often kept up in these positions for 48 hours at a tine without food cr water f on several occasions I saw coolies fall down off the trees when they v/ere only snarled at and kicked by their captors, on one occasion I saw a coolie of a^e about 50-60 (しrey hair and emciated) thrown into the nearby swift river despite his exhaustion; he floated, repeatedly sinking、dovm the river and vas rescued by a T.0.\：. (a rrivato J 0 Dunk, R J U C " attached F.M.S.V.F.) bathing further dovm. evidentiary Docunent ガ ゾ 4. Despite his state the coolie crawled into the jungle bleeding and presumably died later at ni^ht • At ni^ht tine the coolies in the trees had 110 respite as the Japanese w uards whenever they felt like it attached burning pitch faccots to the end of their poles and continued to jab av;ay at tlie coolies above with fire - accompanied as usual by the howls of the nen and the lauchもr and jers cf the ムt this sane go^-house coolies caught for various misdemeanours (and I have to adi;iit f that cf stealing v;liich the Japanese were very intolerant of 一 but generally on account of absenteeism, from work) were flowed extrenely severely by these Kerapei guards - in several instances I have seen coolies faint off tied up ajains trees with tlieir severe punishiaent # HAMCS OF GUiJg)S: Unlcnov,Ti. uitnesses：ムs in l-To # (3). C5) KAKBimi COOLIE IIOSTITiX, SUM.. OCT. 1944 - MuRCH, 1945> ェ was placed in charge of the Dysentery *."ard of this Hospital- at tliis time there was an averaひ of 4〇 patients daily, and an average cf 1 - 3 deaths d a i l y .郷 indictment is tli^t patients were not Given sufficient dressings for their wounds and totally insufficient drugs for treatment • Eneline Hydrochloride, tlie only dru^; capable of saving life in Anoebic Dysentery, uas absolutely T7ith-held despite almost daily protests, jyery norninしェ had to attend the Japanese Medical stores for m issue of drucs and dressings for this ward - although tho ward was con- sidered the »®ead House« b》the rest of the hospital, and so adnitted the r.:cst fulr.iinatin^ cases of Tropical ulcer 一 cases in T ,;hich clienor both— ア ⑶ r”^ht have the bone completely exposed from knee to ankle - T was yet gravely every ncrnin^ handed a piece cf しauze, 3 inches by 3 incLcs, or smaller; one bandage every third or fourth day； half a dozen tablets of soda bicartonate； one tablet of aspirin； a few crystals of potassiuia reri^m^ana-ce；~anSTl-3" tablets 01 ail antiseptic akin to Acrii'lavine "bailed ifHlVanoi»； cofion woo丄，one n a M f u l ir one 磁s lucky, consequently d r c G s i : l : a d tc bo irevided I'ror.; the boiled clctliin,^ cf coolics v;ho had "Sied^ and, when ̂ that yas used up, just leaves # No mstrunents vere supplied i-o. no scissors"cr forceps, bottles or jars rarely. 、 ————^―— 圓•画iim 1 痛 Due to tlie ill-equipped state coolics in the last stages cf Dysentery had to be nursed on mats on the bare ground as the m t 3 becaue filthier and filthier by excreta they could not be replaced despite protests. Food was supplied but \ms cf such inferior quality (rice and vegetable soup chiefly) tiiat ii yas impossible for pa.tiexits to recover on it especially when already suffering from starvation, beri-beri and dysen- tery, Durinし this period ェ renember at least three patients who corjmitted suiciofi they realised there was no hope for thera; one suicide uould corxience a sequence of such acts tlircu^hcut the hospital as the railv/ay line v;as conveniently near. I do not know whether ェ can directly blanie the Japanese Comandant (Captain, no订 Mijor, KUDO of the Ui^ineer Rect•) for these conditions. But there was a serious shorta^e of dru“s, dressings 。八d .fcod in th"- s CPtrm and the aufhorltie-q wh-ich -n^rnit^-eH '̂I'rvn "，'づり/ンニ ^yideiiticjry Dccuij&nt 力! 5ェ3に 5- and,エ think, 6 or less Japanese orderlies• It is thus not surprising that there imst have boon leakages and thefts of food and dru^s. エ de knur l-tijor IO]DO む山進 v&ry こtly and that he phased any fair-Iookliii； coolie wouan patient he ever sap and "slept • nith her despite tko ixuslDGnd ̂ s protcgj^ and also that a ijalay dresser wished to run avoy as his \;ifc uas boinj approached by the coimandant # So it is not surprising that the runour しot around that the vegetables which should have been .一 i V G i i as rations to the British r.O.T/s in the canp v/ere sold in tho coolie cantccn and that prisoners (all n 0 Os and Liodical orderlies) could thus buy back their o m rations at hi u h rates• CAJC COM/LJIDAICT: I.^jcr (then captain) LDDO, I.J““ Engineers # ；itncsscs； Lt.Ccl, B E F S O I了， U . C " 27 Indian Field ijnbulance. S^t. STOMEIi'^I, H.AJ^C.t 198 Field ,.ji)ulancc # (6) in this Konburi Coolie Hospital v;as a Chin (a l!alay born Chinese, livin^ before the mot at Bitterrrorth f near penano). I have no proof but 1:G T. r as v/idoly suspoctod by all A S B C I Nし an accon- plice cf tho Japanese f and that ho £jave informtion away to the KBJU'I police (Japanese lilitary rolice) at Kanburi concerning leakage cf news fron tlie outside ucrld into the canp - this incriijinated friendly S i ^ o s e subjects and caused the torture of British under the Japanese iclice m He 耵as definitely anti-British when I first kneu hira late in 1944 but Gradually changed his vious. “t the tine v/hen there \jas a KEML S I enquiry regardin^ British subversive activities I saw IT% CHIN cycling into 脚lburi tcun every morning which Y;QS an unusual practice for hin as he v;orked in the hospital every oDrnliic as "head, doctor I liave no definite inforoaticn excepting- fcr his original anti-British views and his opinion that we should lose the v;ar, I have tc say that his uife, nazie imIoio\7ii 9 was friendly to British prisoners and on one occasion ^ave one tied up against a pole at the G u ^ d House a {jlass of uater despite the objections of th© Japanese Guards• V'm^ESSSS: Lieut• Col. 3enson t n ^ . M 9 C . f 27th mdian Field iunbulance, I^jcr Cravfcrd, R.A.I^C.f (Estate Doctor, JOHOHE). (7) The ^cneral rjtedical and sanitary inana^eoent of the entire coclio ccu—ps spread up uid doun the si迎トBun丑 Hailv;ay v;as absolutely deplorable, and conditions cvon at this late 6ate seem unbelievable. 社 e administration v;as such tlxat whole bodies of thousui^ds of eoolies and British p # 0 # V.'s uould be rxirched all day to new oaai： sites; they would then be left tc build their o\m huts and be left sonetiixs even without rice for food for days at a tine # ^hia occurred when 〒養 and porccs of iTisoners arrived in si^n fron Singapore. Considering tho extremely hard LXmual labour of coolies and our ovn nen the food during 1943 and early 1944 v;as absolutely inadequate # i脚 ycrkinc fron before daun up till nidniiJit had tc O o for periods cf 4 to 8 weeks on a diet cf rice and vegetable T/ater only, it is not surprising that hundreds collapsed from iy ident iary Document starvation and the consequent louered resistance tc tropical diseases such as m l a r i a and dysentery. Although the Japanese radical authorities loieu the prevalence of mlaria, rjosquito nets during 1943 ^ ^ early 1944 v;ore not supplied to ccolics or prisoners. Tliere v;ac a total lack cf appreciation cf the situation by local ^u^rds so that coolies- and r«0•；7. uould arrive perhaps v;ith plenty of rice but no ccntuiners tc cook it in # Sickness throughout this period was not considered a cause of absentoeisra, and coolie cai.3) M'J®0RS (Chiefs) had to produce a certain fixed pcrccnta^e of workers present every day - if the figure fell the Japanese (juards ^Suld visit ccolic and British HospitalsGnd whip the non with ccnes or strike tliUa uilli bai'jboo poles- turd 'XXx̂ o tliciu co:.io out to i;crk (I saw this ^aone qyse丄iiany a t l W t K codlid^EospTeals and once at tho British Hospital at : r INS^YOI: in July 1943 - thejprotests of British doctors \7ere not consiaerea ana orten the doctor ended up witn a beating hiiisolf # ^he prov'ision cf sanitary facilities xnxs ittdicrcus 一 nerely pits without any shelter for thousands of nen f and these had to be due by patients fron the hospitals as the rest of the canps uere out working on the railway dur- ing daylight• The collection of flies round the open latrine pits was disgustina and by their disseraination ainoitst living huts and cookhouses diseases spread rapidly at every cai:ip.マith the advent cf cholera to back up tlie dysentery and m l a r i a the Japanese rere forced to send dov:n to Siiic a Pore« wlicn it was alreadj^ too late, for a party cf 40 doctors and about 200 nedical personnel in order to prevent the entire coclie and-r # o/.. T . labour froi: beinし’wiped out_ E^ Kcvenber, 1943» there r;cre well ever 5,000 deaths in tho F & H British Force^dTx^borcrrand-as regards coolies an ostlmtlon is diff icult "but I know that at Sî N KEYSR Coolie caup (about 120 l^u fron TAMBUSAY•ムT, and a feu above NECAE) the death roll in November, 1943, 40-50 daily for a period of 6-8 weeks in one snail coup alone # on the m r c h »iip-country» fron KIK^YQir to NIiu'i2f every hundred yards" or so of the path ~;orn by previous prisoners and. coc丄ig^i v;c net dead bodies cf coolies or the unnistakatue cue 11 of a decaying corpso - those uere of 13011 who had been forced tc norch in too exhausted a state or rrhc laad fallen ill 011 tlie ray and had been loft behin己• jn s o u instances Japanese ^*uards tried to OLjend the conditions but they v;ere povrerless in the facc of a v/cofully inadequate supply and mcdical orc,anisaticn # in ny opinion the japcincno l.!pdical colonel in charge cf the Piailr/ay radical & Sanitation Adxiinistration and whose was at KAHBtJRI, and irlio dcscribcd tlic ：丄icricans v:ho built tho p ^ n a m Canal as •big v.liite boasts" is the Japanese officer dircctly tc fcl^c for the absolutely unnccoGsary hi^h death roll aixnしst coolios and prisoners on tho railway, ccrtainly in 1 9 ‘ ' 丨 - 3 . H。uust take the blar:ic for responsibility for racial hatred as uitnessed by his speech to British doctors uhon he m d e sit for an cxaLiination to prove they were doctors, and for his failure to transport riedical, food and sanitary supplies to the forward coups cutting their way through virgin jungle• Tlicro v:as also inadequate supervision of Japanese uodical guards and orderlies who uere allov/cd to treat coolies as thoy thought fit and T7ho v:erc ^ivon far too wide powers of local ddriinistrat ion • Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. MEDIC•/丄 COLOMEL'S Unknov.T. - H.q. at Kanburi, Sia, jane 一 Dccenb? 1943• •;;itnesse§j Major CraT/ford, R • ム ( E s t a t e Doctor, johore, i/^laya). Captain J.L, Frew, Australian i^dical service；,13 A.G-.II. (8) BIFORIl/iTION EEGiJffiING IIUHSSR OF COOLII DSATILS ON RiILV^Y. Estiriation extreraely difficult as I only saw one carp Qt a time and had no birds-eye view of the railway line as a whole. I have lived in six differcrit coolic hospitals up and down the line and, tocetlacr with discussion with other doctors, have fomcd. the conclusion that I should not be surprised at any figure between 1 0 0 ,し 0 0 and 1 5 0 , 0 0 0 coolies tlirou^hout the early 1943-1945 period. (Signed) E.H 0 TIALLACE, Captain. Indian Medical service. I.^nber of judical force on Sian-Burm Railuay June, 1943 to August. I945. 'Vinderr.3erfc. 17.2.46. I, U HERBERT do solcunly and sincerely dcclarc that the foregoine statement is true to the best of ny knowledge and belief, and I i^ake this solenn declaration conscientiously believinc the same to be true, (Sicncd) I.H. T.VJi'.cr, captain, i DECLARED before ne this 18th day of FEBRUARY, 1946. (SiGncd) E.7. HIT^ETSON. justice of the reace for the County of ".'estr-ODrland. Exardned with original affidavit at K.fl. AT.Tr.gr：A this seventeenth day of April 1946, and certified a true copy. (Sifincd) ？ Lt.Col., Le^al Staff, '.Tar Crines Lefal section, ALFSEA, Sincapore. a Evidentiary Docui.:cnt F。，5275-汽 HTCH/iPD ERimST PFVirn - . エ,Richard JSnobt of ITo 0 3エら DCJTSOTX Stc the State of Victor丄a ca uh and say. as folio-./s：.- B A L L O T in Pi I uas to a nonber of 'fclic AIF； the 2/9 Fioid iii:ibu.Iancc» Nuiibor r/as "7}：30823 and ェ was •attached ェて/as taken prirjonor of and placed in CHANGエ prison。 K forcc and placod in various Uar by tho Japanese in February 1942 Later エ v/as sent to Thailand in canps ill SI/iM. 3» In February 194i：エ订as in a coolio canp knov/n as CHA"YMONG^ On tlio 14th February 1944 I contacted a Japanoso laio\/n to 11c as ARAJ (Stom Trooper) HAYASII 二IRilEUiTSU"。 T7c noro in a coolic carip uhich v;as also a hospital 0 4« K/^HKEATSJ procccdocl to a coolio canp to intorviou coolics in the hospital a Ho had a hypoclomic cyrinco filled \;ith a red unloiov/n fluid. He ordcrod tho coolics do\/n ‘ fron their "bods and asked then if thoro uero any vh.o could not v;alk 5 he told then they vrcro coing to bo noved to a base hospital and those v/ho could not v;alk would bo carriod # Several sta^gorcd foruarrl and v/cro ^iven an injoction of the fluid in tho hir； vein in tlio elbow• All v/ho vjcre inoculatcd died uithin a viou minutes • -".Tion the rcnaindor sav; T/hat v;a3 liappcninc thoy said they could v/alk, \71icm ho had finishod he proceeded to tlac dyscntory hut, Hg looked through this hut and v;alkcd av;ay« later ho rcturned v/ith a largo tin of bro\m sugar ‘ in uhlch uas nixed a deadly poison. Ho cave tho coolies this to cat, telling thon ii; uas good for thon^ 1• All vho ate this poison diod during the day. The Japanese f Qroon Pants 0 <»».i •.#.v/as taiovm to all prisoners at CILiyMOMil canp f( c Evidenticry Document No. 537^ AFFIDAVIT OF ThAKIN SA I, Thckin Se, treder, Yenangyaung, now residing e.t House Ko. 156, 47th Street Rangoon, solemnly affirm end state as follows:- For some years before the Japanese occupation of Burma, I had been associated with lcbour movement in oil-fields area and had taken pert in rasny activities intended to improve the condition and status of labourers in that area end elsewhere in Burma• The Japanese Army， in July 1942, began to recruit labourers in Burma for work on the BurnG-Si?.m Rf.ilway pro^cct, It relied at first on specious propaganda for the succes of its recruitment• High rewards were promised5 good food, good living conditions, ample clothings and good medic?.l treatnent whil at work were proirdsed ； and the recruits were definitely told that they would not be required to serve more thsn three months at the project. Consequently, recruitment was at first fairly successful But when the first few batches hf labourers were not sent back at the end of the stipulated three months and when those who escaped the vigilance of military guerd set over them cane back with stories of ill-treatment at work, of scanty food end clothing supplies r.t the camp end tote.1 neglect of the sick and ailing, further recruitment on a voluntary basis became impossible• The Army on this resorted to prees-gang methods. Units of the Japanese Army stationed at different parts of Burraa seized persons they thought suitable and took then irnder military escort to the labour camp at Thanbyuzayat• People of ell sorts and conditions were taken in this way, while they were ebout on their legitimate business• The agency of the civil police force at whose head wes a Japanese Officer nominated by the A m y , wr.s also employed 0 Persons whom the local police officers considered a source of trouble .were seized; people who h?.d incurred the displessiire of civil and military administrations as also persons who were thought to be disaffected with the Administration were taken into custod： snd pressed into the Ir.bour force. Some of then were kept detained in custody for some tine before being sent awcy to Thanbyuzayat. The provisions of Eule 38 of the Defence of Burine Rules nede by the l&wful Govornment of Burma under the Defence of Burma Act, 1940, was freely mis-used in respect of persons who escaped from the press-gengs or fron labour camps. In spite of strict censorship minteine( by the Army and the civil sdninistration set up by the Army, discontent in the country becane v°cal and could no longer be ignored towards the end of 1942,しみ-conjoint Bocrd of five Jepcnese representatives end five representatives of the Burmese administration was set up to r.llsy discontent with the methods Evidentiary Docmeftit No, 5370 2 of recruitment end with lr.bour conditions et the campp • The Burmese Administration was clso permitted to have Burmese Officei &t Thanbyazayat and Et lsbour camps to look cfter the interests of lcbourcrs. In pursuance of this schene, I was appointed a Superintendant of Labour at Thsnbyuzayat, I held that post from 27th December, 194-2, to 31st. March, 1944. When I arrived ct Thcnbyuzayat, there v/ere about 7000 Burmese nstionals at work at various camps on I the railway project. In January, 194-3? the Army asked for a i further force of 16600 labourers• It was then also stated on I behalf of the Army thct the labourers would not be retained at j work beyond three months of their arrival; and it was also j stated thet the arrival of these new labourers would enable those : w h o had been at work since the first recruitment to be released • ！ Between 18th Jenusry, 194-3, and 8th Mercii, 194-3, about 9000 '^labourers arrived at Thr.nbynze.yet,j It was reported thet there 'nad 'been many escape.‘s一on the way in spite of vigilant guard set over the recruits.しIち may be stated hero that none of the former 7000 odd or of the present 9000 odd laboiircrs was discharged as having completed their term of service• Only such cs were completely used up physically end who could not be employed any- further were allowed to go back and many of then died on their way home. Living accomodation provided for ！labourers at the camps were insufficient e.nd insanitary. The ；area where the work had to be done wss very denp and labourors j had to live in barracks which could not keep out the wet. I Barracks intended for 150 persons had to house as nany as 300. j Clothing shortage was acute； when the clothes which the labourers ；brought from hone began to fell into rags, gunny bags were suppli j to then to do duty both ss wearing apparel and e.s blankets. No I ch&nge of clothing was available to most of the labourers end non' i was provided by the Ariay. The result was thct the clothings of ！ almost all labourers were crawling with vermin end most of then ；were suffering fron e virulent type of skin disease• Food supply ！ was not sufficient; end the rice supplied was weevilly• • j Water supply in this are£ was a carriej ！ of mElaria; but steps were not taken to sterilise the water suppl： 1 except for a pretence at boiling the water for potable purposes•‘ j Medical supply consisted only of quinine end even this was not ‘in sufficient quantities« Cholera broke out soon in the camps and the Japanese sought to combat the spread of this epidemic by crencting the dead and very often persons whoki they considered incurable, There were nany authentic cases of live crenetions. Labourers were treated as slaves. Whips and sticks were freely used on the lcbourers; and sickness ordinarily was no excuse.」 Evidonticiry DoeiiBeiit Nレ s 537^ . t There was a total lack of system in ellotnent of labourers to the various camps. As the labourers arrived at Thanbyuzayr.t, they were either driven up in lorries or taken marching through the camps • Officers in charge of the camps would pdfck out persons they wanted5 families became seperated, the hustand being retained in one camp and the wife sent to another camp, the parents going to one csnp and the children to other csnips. Labourers who were sent from one canp to ettend one of the few hospitals then naintcined elong the route were not exempt fron being taken into any other csmp. This lack of system and the haphazard manner in which the labourers wei taken into different camps made it impossible to trace the labourers later, Many esses had been known of fsmilies then separated never coming together again. It msy be noted that some of the cemps are as fcr ss 1^4 kilonetres away from Thcmbynzayat. In theory, age limits for recruits to the labour force were 14- and 45？ but, in practice, labourers range in age between 12 and 60, A fair proportion of the labourers were women5 sone of then cane vdth their husbands and others cane with relatives or friends from the same local areas• In most ceses, they were separated through haphazard selection of labourers at the ceirnps from their husbands } relatives or friends • They suffered a good deal of molestation fron the Japanese Array personnel5 and reports made to senior officers were lightly dismissed as e rule. A report once made through the Burmese officer in chcrge of labour of a change of rape against two Japanese soldiers met with a rebuff from Captein Pujino, who was then in charge• His reply was that Japanese soldiers were not capable of su,ch impropriety and thr.t the Burnese officer should not appear to encourage frivolous reports against the Army. The molestation of women labcurers did not abate till after July, 194-3, when the Army authorities imported about 300 prostitutes to servo the Arny personnol engaged on the project« About the end of Merch,1943, the Army authorities s.t Thcnbjruzr.yat issued a stctenent that out of 7000 labourers received before January,1943, and of 9000 labourers received by 8th Merch, 1943， 5000 only were effectively at work. Tho difference between 16000 and 5〇00 were sought to be Bccounted for by illness, death or desertion. We were told thr.t the Army must hr.ve another 30000 lsbcurers r.nd we were directed to report accordingly to the Burmese Administration ct Rangoon. The Army rt the sane time issued a directive to the local civil administra- tion at Moulnein that pending the arrival of the labourers to be collectcd on country-wide basis by the Central Burmese Administra- tion st Rangoon, Moulnein area nust supply within five de.ys 7000 labourers. Intensive press-gang methods followed this order in Moulnein district• Between the nonths of April and July, 1943, approxirately 30000 Isbourers were sent by the Burmese Administra- tion st Rengoon to Th?.nbyuzayat • This w&s the last recruitment Evidentiary Docunent No. A 7 0 . , Page 4 . to what wes known as the "Sweat Arny"• \ 一 . 者 i The nano "Sweat Arny" hr.d earned such notoriety that it wes decided, to rename the labour force ? which w known thereafter as Labour Scrvice Corps,, though now end again the tern "Sweat Arny" was still used in correspondence• The authority of the Burmese Superin- tendent and Supervisors was snail« The Army v/as very jealous of v/hat it eppeared to consider interference with their preroga- tives by Burmese officers 0 The lstte萝 were not allowed free access to the labourers end were not allowed to maintsin independrnt records。 Once the labourers arrived at the cr.mp^^ all records relating to then were kept by the Jepcncse euthoritie Such records were highly -unrelisble ； in the first plsce, the number of deaths were minimised, cs each death st wcrk neant a payment of compensation to the dependants; and lcstly, the records v^ere slip-shod. We did our best to improve living, food and working conditions; and by the tine the rocd was open, the conditions had improved a good deal c But, even at the best, the se were very "bad。 Flogging of lrbourers, p-unishcient by exposing them to the sun tied to trees and starving them used still to bs resorted to. There also was another practice indulged in by petty officers of the Arny, resulting in illicit gr.in to then. These officers would keep back twenty per cent of the wages due to the labourers, cis security for their good behaviour , It was professed thet this sum would be paid to the lebourers on their ciischargo; but very few lebourers were discharged. Moreover, labourers were very often transferred from one cr.mp to another, and the Jepanese officers also used to te trcnsfGrred quite ns often. One officer succeeding snother would profess to know nothing of the deposits vath the previous officer J and labourers transferred had no neans of making their clains.) Ju—一‘一 ^ • (Signdd) Thakin SA lo.te Lr.bour Supdt, Identified by ne；- (Signed) E.Ifeung) Advocate-General Burma Affirmed before ne, this 1st. day of August,194-6. (Signed) ？ District Megistrete, Rangoon. Seal of the Court of the District Magistrate Rangoon. 1/8/46, Evidentirry Document Wo. 5371 j Steteinent of Maung Aye Ko,lctc Camp j officer, BUTISE一Siam Railway project, j s Cinemc Artist of Rangoon, Burma. In 1943, I was appointed a ccmp officer to supervise Burmese lr.bc/ur on the SiEin-Burma Er.ilway projects"! In the„company of 49 other camp officers appointed at the sr.ne tine ? は—left Piangoon on 26th July, 1943, and reported at the reception camp ？.t Mupun Station, Moulnein. There were, then,メ at thr.t carap about 2000 Burmese labourers• They were housed in ba±racks open to the inclemencies of the monsoon, which was parficularly severe in that pert of Burns. Most of the labourers were clcd only in a loin cloth and many of thorn were down with fever• No nedical aid Eppeared to have been given, and the food supply wes bad end insufficient. Sr.nitr.ry arrangements were practically absent, From the recaption canp, batches of' 100 to 400 labourers were taken in open railway trucks to Annnkv/in Canp (45 kilometres from Thanbyuzaj/at; • No arrangenent was mnde for neals during transitj,J Meny cases of attenpted and effective escapes from the "trucks were reported5 '^military gur.rds hsd orders to and did shoot deserters• After'"Anenkwin, lcboiirers had to march to the camps sppointed. for then. Some } of these cenps were v.s far as 130 kilometres from Thanbyuzayat.j _ ••-••m- 1 圓•一尸 A few dcys after arrival et Mupun Ccmp I and 29 other canp officers were taken by railway as far as Thanbyuzayat.14 canp officers were left at Thanbyuzayat and l6 others including nyself proceeded, onwards by notor-trolleys to Lonsi camp (65 kilometres from Thr.nbyuzayat) » From Lonsi, v/e travelled in motor lorries to Kyontcw camp (9b kilometre from Thrnbyuzeyct). The last named csnp was the headquarters of Conno Butai (No.ヲ804) under ?. Me;)or Conno with Lieutenant Sato as his second in conmand I On our wr.y from Lonsi to Kyontaw, WG found labourers at work, scantily clad in rags or gunny bags. They e.ppeered for the nost part to be eneciated end many of then were suffering from sores. Whips r.nd sticks were freely used by the Jcp&ncse cverseers set over the labourers. There were at work rlso prisoners of war * They were equally ill clad end. n m y of them r.ppeared to be very einr.cir,ted. At Kyontaw camp, to be about equally composed of Burmese and Eurriese labourers lived separately fron the but the cccorariodation provided for both r.nd we found the labourer prisoners of warリ prisoners of war; food supplied to Evidentiary Docxinent No. 5371. Kc. r. them ere almost the sr.ne • (Long barrecks with bemboo flooring r?.is ebout three feet fron the ground end not affording sufficient security from the wer.thcr housed both classes. Rice w&s ‘weevilly and to accompany it used to be supplied a kind of • tasteless broth of vegetables« Only about 30 percent of either clcss cculd be described as fit5 about 30 percent were badly- affected by neleria of e. virulent type and were very emaciated 5 and the rest appeared to be suffering fron a virulent type of 丨 skin disease, which caused big sores to appear neinly on the I legs, through the openings of which sores the bones would r.ppear i exposed end vernin infesting them« No medicel treeitnent was I provided r.t the camps for the lest disease, though it r.ppesred to be fatal in nany ceses. For uiElariel pe.tients, quinine used to be provided, but never in sufficient quantities» A hospital was situated at e distance of r.bout 5 kilometres from this camp; but, no transport of rny kind wr.s avaliable for the sick. Those too ill to walk to the hospital had to do without any medicel I attention. Dccths used to r.verage about ten a day, at this camp clone. The nenibers of Conno Butcl were particularly h?.rsh snd callous in their dealings with those e.t work under theg. Floggings wero freely adninistered to those who through sheer physical weakness or illness could not work lir.rd enough to pi esse then. | • - 一 - — J After a few days r.t Kyorrtew canp, five other camp officers and I proceeded by Motor lorry to Kyonl^aya cenp (114 kilometres from Thsnbyuzeyat). Three officers including ryself were left at this .canp p.nd three others were taken onwerds to tlicnext camp at 121 kilometres from ,Jhanbjmzaynt• My duties took ne often to the lr.st mentioned camp. At Kyonkcy?. canp as also at the canp at 121 kilometres there were both -rrisoners of war as well as Burmese labourers, Burmese 1 l a b o u r e r s were then placed on earth-work r.t the nr.king of an euxillir.ry not or road 5 end prisoners of war were engaged in stone ‘carrying and stone-breeking • Cholera epidemic was r u e at the . c a n p snd nc.ny died of it # The dead end dying were piled up j end socking then in petrol, the Jepanose used to cremate then, i Erutal acts committed on lrbourers were drily occurrences, but i we were powerless to prevent then. One one occcsion, when I was ！ coning fron the c?.np ct 121 kilometres, I SEW a prisoner of war i r.t work in a stone qu&rry collrpse 5 his conpenions went up to render cid to hin; and the Japanese supervisor belaboured those giving aid to the man who hsd collapsed with a heavy pieee of plr.nking. Another man collapsed on the spot e.s a result of the beating; and I was told by the Japanese gufrd to move on B Three days Is tor, when エ got back to the place where I witnessed, the ！ incident, I saw two deed bodies of the prisoners of war, who had fcllen down dead thct day, The bodies were in cn advanced stage of decomposition. Later I used to pass this spot and ェ found ine . ^ m m b 浮 照 離 能 ： � ト ふ ‘dead bodies left to rot there till sr.bsequently, there were only j the skeletons left r.t the piece.ェlearnt thr.t it wesaat the orders of the Japr.nese authorities thrt the dead were left ‘unburied, cs o： warning to prisoners of wcr, and other labourers. j Towercis the end of September or tho beginning of Octobcr,194-3, six prisoners of war escaped and j were recaptured• They vrcrc from the csmp at 126 kilometres 5 and エ was informed by the Japanese officers that after recapture } _ the prisoners were tr.ken to Thanbyuzayct rnd were beheaded» \ Shortly after this incident, I obtained lecve and was absent fron the cc.np till Fcbruery,1944. On return fron lecvo 3 I wss stationed et Abclon ccnp (85 kilometres from ThGnbyuzr.yr.t).エ found two British nedical men (prisoners of war) doing good work, saving mcny lives of Biirmose lr.bourers. Yc.bei Butai with Ma"jor Yebia in conne.nd was in charge of Abslon canp. Prisoners of wr.r, nunbering about 20000, were at work between 100 and 131 kilometres from Thanbyuzryat. Major Ysbai and his compcny were less brutel then I\fe j or Conno and his men 5 but, the Kenpeiti had by then been stationed at labour camps, and severcl prisoners of war &nd others aiffered death r.t the hands of the Kenpeiti. At this tine, the rcilwr.y hp.d been open for sone tine r.bd Burmese labourers were employed on repairs to and maintenance of the railway line. Prisoners of war hed to n?.ke tho motor rosd. Work wr.s lighter thcin in 19斗birt food supply sno living ？.ccomodr.tion were as bad. Medical supplies were almost nil 5 snd decths from cholerr：, nclaria r.nd emcciation only slightly decreased• Finding that I could not do anything effective to better the conditions of the labourers, I resigned after r.little over two months. In the few months I wrs at the labour crimps,エ sr.w so ncny floggings, bee tings r.nd deaths, thet I boccne inured to the sight. Even so, there is one sight thet left a strong impression on ne. It WES on ny first three months scrvice, in 194-3, ct a plnce between 126 rnd 131 kilometres. I sew r:もout 400 dead bodies 5 prisoners of war, Eurmese and Malays piled up and splr.shed with petrol end burnt P (Signed) M?/ung Aye Ko, The r.bove stctemerit was signed in ny presence by Ifeung Aye Ko^ letely G Camp Officer on Burma-Siem Hrilway Project 5 personally known to ne, Stamp of AdvocstG-Gencral, (Signfd】E ; Mr.ung Burnr 3rcu August,1946. * ' • Advoc£te-Gener£il, Burma. Doc. No, 5453 e 1 SYNOPSIS Ec P/W Camrs In. Burraa. no - ': op.nnacjted vdth. the Burnia/Siam Hailwax« a) Proswution drooment nunbered 5275? the Affidavit of Major C。 E 3 GREEN, is now introduced for identification, the marked excerpts therein being offered in eyidencs® This document states that at Aerodrome Camp, Victoria Point, in June,19 A 2 ? a P/W having escaped, a number of other P/W and officers were inprison3d until the man ? s recapture. When the man was found ? the Japanese Senior officer san.d that there was an Order that anyone attempting to escape was to be shot and that this man therefore ? had to be shot. The witness as the Camp Commandant made every attempt to prevent the execution, v/hich was nevertheless carried out in front of the witness. There had been no trial® b) Prosecution document numbered 5206B, the Affidavit of Chaplain F„ H , BASHFOBD, is tendered for identification s and the marked excerpts thereof introduced in ev.idencG« This document states that in June 1942 eight P/W escaped from Tavoy aerodrome camp. On recapture they were executed, the witness bsing present^ Letters of protest against the execution by the Senior British officer were of no avails c) Prosecution document numbered 5〇3&Bj the Affidavit of Lt. Col« G. E a RtiMSEY, is nov/ offorsd for identification, the marked excerpts thereof being produced in eviaencee This document states that in May 1942 ? the witnsss was con- manding a P/W canp at Mergui„ The canp was overcrowisd, many of the men had dysentery, and. hospital facilities did not exist. Three men were shot for allegedly trying to escape® The witness made representations to the Japanese Commander to no avail. At Tavoy in September, 1942, P/ii were employed on e,%larg- ing a military aerodrome, Three men accused of stealing stores were taken to the gaol and there tortured savagely "by the-.-Iempeitai. •:c. N o . 5453 Page 2 d) Prosecution Document numbered ヲ274, the Affidavit of Wing Commander L. V . HUDSON, is tendered for identifi- cation and the excerpts marked therein produced in evidence. This document states that in March,1945, at Rangoon Prison, two men who were seriously ill were refused medical aid by the Japanese Doctor, who said they were dying anyway. In fact the men did die within a week. On numerous occasions the Doctor and his Orderly were asked for treatment to which the answer was, as before, that since the men were dying, to give drugs to them, would be a waste. The Commandant of the prison inspected the pitiful bareness of the cell which served as a hospital and saw the condition of the sick without comment• The witness was beaten up by the Doctor and his Medical Orderly for writing a complaint to the Commandant on the conditions in which the sick were living. � Doc. No, 54-53 金 g e 1 * ノ SYNOPSIS E f P/W Camjvs in Burma no' 1 : connected v/ith the Burma/SiamRailway• a) F-rosecuticn droanent niinbered 5275? the Affidavit of Major C。E, GREE.N, is now introduced for identification, the marked excsrpts therein being offered in evidence» This document; states that at Aerodrome Camp, Victoria Point, in June,19 A 2, a PAi T having escaped, a number of other P/iiV and officers were imprisonod until the man's recapture. When the man was found s the Japanese Senior officer said that ‘--C'..; there was an Order that anyone attempting to escape was to be shot and that this man therefore, had to be shot, The witness as the Camp Commandant made every attempt to prevent the execution 3 which was nevertheless carried OUT in front of the witness. There had been no trials b) Prosecution document nunbered 5206B, the Affidavit of Chaplain F» II, BASHFORD, is tendered for identification, and the marked excerpts thereof introduced in evidence« This document states that in June 19+2 eight P/W escaped from Tavoy aerodrome camp 3 On recapture thsy were executed, the v;itness being present a Letters of protest against the execution by the Senior British officer were of no avail, c) Prosecution document numbered 50'38B ? the Affidavit of Lt. Col« G, Eo RA】KEY, is nov? offered for identification, the marked excerpts thereof being produced in evidence? This document states that in May 1942 ? the witness was com- manding a P/'W canp at Mergui«, The canp was overorowclsd ? many of the men had dysentery, and hospital facilities did not exist. Three men were shot for allegedly trying to escape. The witness made representations to the Japanese Commander to no availo At Tavoy in September, 1942 3 P/v/ were employed on ©.filarg- ing a military aerodrome. Three men accused of stealing stores were taken to the gaol and there tortured savagely "by tiie'-leispeitai. . T :. • 冗 Pase 2 d) Prosecution Document numbered 5274, the Affidavit of Wing Commander L. V . HUDSON, is tendered for identifi- cation and the excerpts marked therein produced in evidence. This document states that in March,194-5> at Rangoon Prison, two men who were seriously ill were refused medical aid by the Japanese Doctor, ；vho said they v/ere dying anyway. In fact the men did die within a week. On numerous occasions the Doctor and his Orderly were asked for treatment to which the answer was, as before, that since the nen were dying, to give drugs to them, would be a waste. The Commandant of the prison inspected the pitiful bareness of the cell which served as a hospital and saw the condition of the sick without comment• The witness was beaten up by the Doctor and his Medical Orderly for writing a complaint to the Commandant on the conditions in which the sick were living Evidentiary Docui.:cnt F。，5275-汽 VX390O6, Major John Kevin LLOYD of Army H^dquartcrs vjjIzl oath aiid say； 1« エ an an officcr of the Australian lilitary forces. 2. Annexed hereto and narked is a true copy of an affidavit suorn by Charles Eduard GREEN on 5 llhTch l^k^ wliich エ have in î y custody in the course oi ^ duties. Tlic ori^nal affidavit cannot be nccdo uvuilablc irxiediatcly as it is required for trials of i.lnor par criidnals # SWORN before uc しt lELBOUIUS) ) (signed) J. LLOYD, I:ajor. this 27th day of ifiy 1946 ) (Signed) H.D. CRAMPTCT’ C-pt. AXi off iccr of the Australian lilitary Forces• Evidentially Dociment 5275• I K T H E H O T T E R o f W a r C r i n c s .、 and I L T T H E L E T T E R o f Y a 3 k 3 5 m j o r GREEtC o f 2 / 4 I ^ c h i n c G u n B a t t a l i o n A . I . F . United Nations，，,ar Crines Ccrxiies^ Reference • •.. / I, Charles E^i r ard GREEK o f j.̂ ount Street, r e r t h , in the st^te of western 二‘ustralia being duly sr;orn n^ke cath and say t 1 . I w a s y7}r. 3k35 I - ^ j o r C h a r l e s Idr/cird &RLEN o f 2/k M a c h i n e Gun B a t t a l i o n , Australian i m p e r i a l F o r c e . 2 . エ〜7us s c c c n d i n c h a r ^ c c f t h o 2 / 4 i / a c h i n e G u n Battalion a n d o n t h e DCOTH o f c o l o n e l I J . A I T E T E L i n February 1 9 4 2 エ c c a x ^ i n c i e a t h e B a . j エ r e g a i n e d i n c o m a n d o f t h e B r“ a t C 蘭 、 T G I C a i i p , s i i m p c r c , u n t i l I k 卿 1 V 4 2 , 3 • T h e J a p a n e s e t h e n c r d . c r e d a p a r t y f o r o v e r s e a s i v o r k t c b e f o r i . : o d c o n s i s t i n g o f 3〔)〇じ ^ H r a n k s . • エ u a s a p p o i n t e d b y L l i j c r - G r o n e r a l CALU^GETJ 7 - t o c o i x i o n d N o , 3 B a t t a l i o n o f t l i i s f c r c o vhich v / a s k n o v m ^ s fし” Force• '/.'Tl:し Force eubarked at Singapore on 14 M^y 1^42 on two ships.」 2000 all ranks under thし coo.„an(l cf Bri^tidier A.L. Vurley ；vcre pt on t h e " T O Y Q H A S H I K a H U 好 . a r i d 1 0 0 0 a l l r a n k s u n d e r t h e c a i u d o f L t * C c l # G # J U H S a Y p u t o n t h e 、 C E L E E E S LIaRU * . O n t h e s e t v / o s h i p s tl:o t r o o p s uere grossly overcravded, holds r/hich v;culd ordinarily provdu for 200 L i e n t o a c c o i j i j o d a t c 6 0 0 n e n • T h e f o o d o n t h e s h i p s w a s p o o r , consisting of u snail rice ration supplciicntod by a si.ull issue of tinned food ni“de into stev;s. Tlit- water position *:as bud und the lutrino facilities extremely b^d. On 21 1542 the tuo ships arrived off VICTCHIil POU^Tt Bun-ia, and tl:e Japanese ordered the discLibarkation of 1 0 0 0 uicii p l u s s i c k . 3 B a t t a l i o n , i t s s t r e n g t h bし i n “ t h e n i n c r e a s e d t o 1 0 0 0 L i e n p l u s s i c l : t w a s d i s o L i b u r k c d , ムt v i c t o r i a p o i n t w e u e r e d i v i d e d i n t o t w o c u ^ G , 4 0 0 m e n b e i n g q u a r t e r e d a t t h e p o i n t p r o p e r a n d 6 0 0 LION a t t h e u e r o d r o u e CLJ—�P a p p r o x i - u a t o l y b i u i l c s froi•‘ t h e p o i n t • T h o f o o d c o n a t i o n s a t t l i i s c a n x c o u l d b e r e g a r d e d “s b e i n ^ r e a s o n じ b l y - g o o d a l t h o u g h i n r e a l i t y t h e y u e r e l e v ; nocesacry r e q u i r e n e n t s a s i t w し s f o u n d l a t e r cl t h u t r & n b e g a n t o e x h i b i t s i g n s o f n m l n u t r i t i o n . ‘ i y m i n g e n e r a l c o m p l a i n t vas t h a t しt t h e a e r c d r c L i e u e v ; e r e r ^ d e r e s p o n s i b l e f o r しUc^rding o u r s e l v e s a n d t h a t a もuレrd c f A u s t r a l i a n p r i s o n e r s w a s m i n t a i n e d f r o n t h e c a n p a n d v r e r e h e l d r e s p o n s i b l e f o r a n y a t t e u p t s t o e s c a p e r x x d e b y a n y p r i s o n e r s o f t h e •caup# ,n about June 1942, IDC10420 private R.s. G0UIKEN. a ueuber of 3 B^tt-ulion quartered at thし Aerodror.:e C m p attenpted to escupc # He vicxs f o u n d t o b e n i s s i n ^ a n d l i f t e r u r e a s o n a b l e t i n e t h e f し c t t h a t h e h し d Evidentiary Docuiaent po. 5^75• fl 2 . j escaped was reported by uo to the Japanese, ‘ Captain YASUDA 了as the Senior Japanese officer at Victoria point and v?as quartered at the ^Tireless station, c^ptuin Y“SULム.*as knov/n to be of the permanent Japanese ^r^y and v/as a i.ian of about 45 years cf a g e ,放 uas about 5 j feet six inches in height and cf heavy build» f. The first steps taken by i the japuiese was a couplete check to establish that the i.:an uas rjissixig; i all officers ^cre then suixioned to the Orderly roou and I was confined to ！ r^ quarters for tv;c days, The Quarteruaster and the Orderly Officer of i the dcay (Australian prisoners) v:ere also confined tc their quarters. Tl-e； ；vholo of the Australian とuard V.liich TTしs on duty at tlie tine of the escape ！ \7iis sentenced to be inprisonod until such tino as GOUIDEN v;as recaptured® ！ The らnerd xiere punished by close detention in respect of the escape, i ipproxiuしtely six days liter it became laioivn thc.t G-OUIDLN had been rocap- j turod by th- japiinesc, j ir^cdiutely requested that エ should be present j at any interrogation of GOULDEK and was tcld thot he uould be brou^Lt to the coup fur questionin^ f ^t this the guard v;hich had been • imprisoned vj-^s released. GOIMST 〜•;し-s brought to the Japanese cto-ip Guしrd | House snd I vna sent for b： C-pt. Y^SUDム.I pointed out to Cしpt, YASUDA that cn the question of the trial GOUIDZM should huvc representation and j he replied th t an order had been ^iven tliとt any mun v-ho ^ttoupted to ; escccpe would be shot レnd GOULDSN hしd attcupted to escape ani, would there- j fore be shot • it is opinion tiu.t GOIILDLF was i.,ontaly dorungod us lie 'atto:.,pted this cscupe T7itucut any udecjiじte preparation vrLatcver and ! without coi.uuiiieating his intentions tc cjiyone else, it is understood that ！ he, realising the iujjcssibility of his actions, ^ave hiusclf up to the ！ BurにESE rolicc Y;LO handed hiu ever to THE Japanese. DURING tho interim j period, i.e. irLilc he was out, a couplete covering thb cuse wしs j prepLurcd by Lt. UCCAUL^Y, r-y Le邑al officer, pointin^ out that ve objected ,to beiiî , [bdり responsible for ^ULjrdin^ our oi;n prisoners and further that j we objected to corx^iunal punishraont beiii£< ^ivon in respect to offences i coriuitted by individuals und the fじct that escapces v:ore to be punished by j sliootihg,ェlodged tT7c cojpics of this docunnt with the Jupuiese t one for their ov:n use 6nd requested that one be fOTOcrdcd to a representative of a ；neutral pov Durin。this period tlie Japanese Coi-i-iander t St^t. | ISHITニV/A n̂cl. also u jL.punese Officer in Cor2.u.iid of the ijrea adjacent to the 1 aerodrome uere intervicr/ed by L.O しN vcarious occasions und the \;1IO1G j question of GOUIDEJT,S escape âid the objections to the possibilities to J his bcir^ shot \;ere raised. I intcrvicv/cd GOULDZN c^ftcr his rccしpturし and 1 he フしs in a very distressed x'rauc cf L]ind # C^pt • YASUDA would listen to ,1：0 appeals vvlxutover； he s._id thしt if GrOULDLI丁 u s not shot discipline would not be maintained and. th し:t other uon rculd also att opt to escape # I v;as then ordered to return to quarters• shortly aftcmrcis a B^ttしlien purude ras ordered by the Japuiese and I xius sent for. The E^ttalion puraded on the pし'.rしde と丁ound and G0ULD5N fron the Japanese quarters to a position in front of the ^sseubled. parade, C^pt• YASUDA, one other jc:panese officer, nし；Lie unknoun,レnd three guards were presents Capt« Yi^SDDA ^nd the otl.or officers じrraiî しd thci^sclvos v/ith dravn svrords cn either side of private GODLDIT and C^pt # Yi^SUDA then read a dociiiiicht to the assoublcd troops in Japanese, ^he B^tta.licn v/as then ordered to stand fast and u party which included i.yself # Major STRINGERi Lt • EERF-DU and Lt •マムTSOI.T v/ero Liurchcd in coi.,p£aiy with GOULDEN and the lyidentiary Docm^ent ITO. 5 2 7 5 * ル ‘3. guards to a point し p p r o x i u a t e l y five hundred yards fron tho caiup. At ti is spot a pole had been ertctcd and GOULDEM v/as blidfolded, tied to the pole and shot in front of us. GOULDEF had no forrxil t r i a l .ェ then get a doctor, Capt, HIGG3IISt and a padro and the Doctor exoiiriiicd the body and pronounced life cxtinct and we were ordered to Cc^rry the body back through the asseubled ranks of the Battalion, A truck vras waiting at the gate and GOULDEN 1 s body was taken to the Victoria point Ccijetery where a ^ravo had already been prepared and iras buried iri niy presence S^t. ISKIEOiHAt the CしLp Coixxindant and private SHHUISHI v:erc also present. The following docui-ients relative to the above v:erĉ handed in as appunaices to rjy general report on 3 ^ttulion r/hich v/as sub:.dt ued to H^ T*c>storii Con:and on 12 FcvcLiber 1945?- Appendix ]\TO, 2 - Diary of 3 R ^tulion Force to l6 Oct ijpendix fTb.ll-Court of Inquiry on the execution of 11X10420 private Vi.S. GOITLDEF, j\ppe:adix NOol2 - Copy of letter cubi-dttod to jじ"ounesc on execution of KX.10420 private GOULDEM, 6. On 28 gep 19な2 the Australian troops under 5c coixic-iid arrived at TTiil-IBYUZYAT whr.̂ l. yjus the nortl： starting end of tho Buruじ-Thailand railway, \:e Tore the firat Auslruliaii troops to arrive “t TKilTBYUZYiT and we cai.ie under tl.̂ coixjaiid of che HQ, ITo. 3 Branch Thailand ^ur prisoners• The executive staff cf this HQ ^ore•- Lt .Col, NAGiiTOl O - Coix:ondin^ Officer, Lieut， M.ITO - Second in charge. Lieut P HIGUCHI - Medical Officer. Li^ut。IG.GUJI - 3conoi.iic officer # 7» T^o T/LLT criaes set out hereunder cai.ic ritiニin personal knowledge V-. ile ire vcto within i;hc corxmd of Lt NAQ/LTOMO:— EXECUTION QF ESC^KSS. ^69005 pte. GeH, ， T H I T F i n i D， of 3rd ^scrvc W ム I T • :?liitfi'ila oscujjed fron IC1H)“耵 4 ICilo C^ip coiXi^-ndcd by ue on the 10th Fov Ho surrendered hî .,self to the Japanese ut Thしnbyuzyat on the 13th D^Cv 42. At th.t tiije ェ believe that Lt。Co!U RxG^TOMO u s temporarily absent Qiid Lt. F^ito uas cdi:iinisterin^ corxurid 0 bitfield was shot 011 the 14 T)lc 9 42 011 the orders of Lt. paitc. to L̂ y knowledge this 】ニan was given no triし1 by tlic jap^esc. Ti c follov:ii^pcrsom:ol escaped froi.: Thctkar 14 Filo C ^ p coixiojidcd by r:e on the 12 Feb. 43#- KKl22lf3 C&pt。A. MILL, H ヘ ム “ W . A IP. T T O 8 2 7 Pte BELL, 2/6 Field park パ I F . vx57l67 Pte EICKmSOT, 2/15 Field 腕 t , AIF. Dickenson wレs recaptured by the Japanese on approximately 28 Feb 43 ^nd executed on the 2 L 4 3 a t ^nbyuzyat # To knowledge this ixoi i;as Evidentiary Docunent I'o. 5^75• interrogated but r/cis not しiven any f o n ^ l trial, MUllしndl Ee丄1 v/ent on farther together and it wes reported to lie tliut Mall w^s shot by the Burnosc police nei.ir sliv:ĉ on on 10 l,]ur, 43• B ^ H v:as bounded at tho scm;b tiue that MUll was killed and ras brought bck to Thど"Hbyuzyしt cjid was executed at 073〇 hours on the l6 43• To the best cf rjy knouledge and belief Le vias interrogated but tu d no forrふ1 trial, UmCPim IKFRISONTjIKT. At tho beginning of October 1942 Jj.tne 9 n i T O approached nc and asked ne to siこn un undertaking that I would not escape^ J refused. Lieut, MilTO then said tl^' I noula be in serious trouble if I did not sî n̂ the undert‘-i:irも.He suid that he advised nc to sign it as otherwise エ rould be kept in solitary detention and rl^lit be sLot. I mintedned i ̂y attitude of refusing to si^n and on 5 Oct 1942 I ^as placed under arrest and taken to TH/U^YUZY.iT placcd in solitary confinement in a cell in the guard house f Lt. NAITO visited r:c daily and deLianded thしt ェ should sign tlie undertaking but I still refused cmd asked to be allowed to interview Brigadier 7^'iRLEY. T-iO coll in vjLich エ confincd u s a soill T:coden one with cn Asiatic type latrine on one corner. I uus ^iven tliree noals a day, each consisting of half a dixie of plain rico cjid half a uug cf v/ater. I v.as not pcrLiitted tc leave the coll.エ tud no facilities for pcsLing. On the sixth day of doteution Bl-iqcxIct y.-rley v/as arrested and pl&ced in the cell next to .inc, '; r e v/crc G/o丄e "to convorsc "to^ctiicp•エ believe tli6 sols roc..son i or Brie；しdier yi^rley1 s detention \:us to ^ive 二e GH opportunity cf intervie\7ing hin without the Japanese having to ^ive a fornal ccnscnt thereto, it was a fccc-saviiig dcvicc. On 12 Oct ij.2 Briじしdier V- rlcy end rjyself agreed tliat as I v;as acting under duress I cculd siしn the undertaking, aid ェ therefore infonued the 了しp.しncse that ェ would! do s o . ェ TTCXS token to Lt. Col,rAGムTCTO at his HQ,. He expressed rc u ret とt the action thc.t had been taken but said the undertaking had to be signed ujid that Lycelf しnd Brigadier varley would liavc stayed in detention indefinitely Lad エ naiirtしinod ny しttitしde of refusing to si^n. I signed the undertaking end T;C vere released frou con- fincnent.l^jor EiJlZETBEriG, the senior DutcL officer in EUTLXL, hc.d previously subject tc si .ilur tactics by tho jupenest；； that is to say lie 'cis kupt in solitary confinuxnt until ho signed a non-esc-pc uncertaking. FORCING or SICF" PJIISOI^S TO て0W“ Tu MjxcL 1943 、 forcc of Australian Troops knexm Blじck Fcrcし, Green Force end nai.isay Forcc caue> together ut 75 Kilo-Cai:p ireiloo. Lt .Col. Rai..say t;GS the sonicr Australian officer and 口 a s C'^? Con:.:ander. THE Cし:-:p T:crkcd on a Eri^udo basis uitL tLc three abovo-nentioncd i'orcos. Conditions in this canp ucrc cxtrc;:ely bad cjid tLe offects of the long period of inudegar.to diet bo^cji to sliov; tLer;jsolves； it i:as also in a very bad fever belt. It was at this sta^e the.t t' c jc,p^i:Gsc refused, to accept tho Licdical CIC.GSIIications ^iven by oar ovm 1 " C A I C C L Officers* sickness had increased at an alaruii名 ruto and the nui^ber of uon available for v/ork was reduccd duily. pressure vr-s applied by the Japanese but refused tc send nen to v:ork uLo vxro not considered fit by our orn l^dicul officers. Tlic Japanese ；yid^tiury Dociu .cnt Fo. ろ； 5. tl.cn tool: tlx natter into their liL.nds and v;hcn they considered insufxicient r.:cn irero paraded for xjotIz thoy ordered a spceial p^rado of all the sick in oui.:p, These i.:cn ucre inspected by parties of Korean Guards v:Lo "by personal observation piclccd out additional ugn to しo to i;ork on the line. Tl"-is then be cane tl.e daily procedure；し nd hundreds of uen uere selectod d•し ily and sent to V;ork vrlio V;orc obviously unfit # Tho uiJDunt of I;ork T/US increased and nen frequently started しt 8 o'clock in the uorniri^ and v/crked thrca^li until 2 and 3 o'clock on the following udtiAii^ # This continued to be the procedure fcr tlu> next nino iioxiths, until January 1944)• ニCPCSUHI： OF PW5 TO DANGER FHQM BOIBTI'G 13TC • In junuuxy 1944 I ごas transferred to T“M^RK^N Canp, Tkailand, v/ith a forcc consisting of all tho Australian prisoners of ’jcr in Euri.ムlese about 700 loft at 105 rilo Cこ:ニp for iエintenoice v/ork. ^Lc T^xjrkan C^up r.'cis situated near u lc.rostocl rail bridge uhicl had been consjbucted by the jc;p(.ncse over the； river for military reasons. ^ o bridge T:QS A i.iilitary objective；. The prisoners r:ere forced to v;crk on tho anti-aircraft defences for the bridge• U l e I v:as at tLe T^-^rk^ Coup there v;ere about nine allied bo: .binじ raids directed against the bridび and sci.iO prisoners in the nearby prison cai.;os v;cre killed by the boi.;barducnt« エ did not ever see any recognition rnrks exhibited near the pH G‘丄:ps to indicctc to bonbers tLat p v r uorc in the locality. G B T H A L . r jliile ut prisoner oi v;ar cstablisLuents vat Lin the courxmd。£ Lt # Cel. F“GAT0I•で,エ personally observed tlie following contraventions of intcrnational Lar：一 S n U H Y OF COrm.YIlTIOFS OF IITTLHI:ムTIOH/丄 L ^ 、 ( 1 ) F o r c i i ^ , nen tc v;ork vho were physically unfit and vho had been classified us such by our ov/n qualified M . • (2) Felling to supply adequate quarters and crov;din^ r^n in insanitary caiaps uith natives. (3) F^ilii^, to supply anyti.in^lilze adequate iiedicul requirements, ( 4 ) Forcing prisoners to v/ork in unliearthy JUII^IG caL.ps• (3) Failing to supply rations up to the scしlu laid do\m m (6) ；j>propriatiiit prisoners‘ rations for their o\m use. (7) stealing Cross supplies for their oun use f (8) Holdin- prisoners 1 ixiil up for periods up to 6 nonths and sorぶー tines destroying it. Evidentiary Dccuir^nt トto. 5275• ^ (9) Hoi/.ovir̂ i all pと.per, pencils, etc. f and prevention cf facilities for nental rclccartion and study. (10) pailin^ tc supply anything like adequate olotliin^, (11)"p： cifficlこin̂ in c^ntccii supplies and rjidcin̂ exorbitant profitG at prisoners 丨 expense； • (12) placing pow C^rps in close prcxir.iity to military objectives. (13) Forcing prisolera to uork on Japanese war works, “/ム posts, etc, (14) F^ili^fi to repatriate prisoners rhc at tLc cud of 12 iionths uしre classod pcri.xinontly unfit and v;ho required special nedicul treatnx-nt« (15) Forcing officers to do v,oric under threat of orned forcc, (lo) conducting Courts 1てと.rti“l on prisoners uithout allowing then any r cpr ̂ sent at 1 on ；;hatcvar« (17) suiニ-エ丄rily executing prisoners who had atteupted to escapo. (18) co^junal pani3ln".:ent inflicted cn whole canp. (19) infliction of severe corporal piuiishivicnt out cf all proportion to so-callud offuice• (20) Forcing officers to salute all Japanese personnel irrespective cf ( 2 1 ) ^ t various tiucs the prisoners tliu^Glvus responsible for tlicir ô 'ii custody under tlireat of severe ccL2.:unul puiiishncnt. 8. I concider that the person who Fas prii:.a fucie responsible for the abovc-r.:cntion^d war crixacs vas Licu*t。5〕loi:cl LL'̂ GATOI；!).エ can speak of this LiBui only in ^oncrul terns; the officers x/l'-c would be able to ^ivc detailed and first-hand infornation ooncernin^ lya^atono 1 s adninistrution are Lt^Col.C. ；J-1DIJ2S0N TC I/C, Lt. Cel.T. Ei'JULTON Senior l^dical officer und CJ»I!?BEIL (wl.'o hand led pay, cantccn affairs ctc). I consider that tlie uf ore said \7ar crii::し s wore the responsibility of Lt • Col # jTo^crtono in tliut eitl.er he dircctly autliorizecl then or alternatively they v;orc the result of his failure to cuporvisc tho . ctions and policy of his subcr- clinutos. personally I believe that his subordiivtes acted generally in acccrdanco r;ith his orders.i’Tagじtouo r;as し r:an of about 50 years of u^e； he vc.s sorニe five feet four inches in height； averse build; cloan shaven； nc purticul‘-r u し rlcs; he spoke jronc：. fluent ly. According to runour he left Tl上。-ilmd in しbout JUIK- 1944 bcirも THEN in disfavour uith the J A P A N E S E autlicritics on account of his inpropcr dealin^ with funds, supplies,ctc• He is sし.ii to hc,vo died in jupiM of food poisoning• rvidcnticry Dccmxat iio. 5.273 • ^ I refer to the follcrin^ subordinates of Lt. Col. KagatoL-o；- LIEUT, HOSHI, ム description of tl.is Japanese officer and tho appointments Le liold ore described in an affidavit sx7orn by ne at pcrtli,Western ^ustralia f on 7 Feb. 1946 before 'fflC37146 l^ijor H.T. ST“HLES OF jjJJC T/estern Cor^iand 人J'^F, Hosld uas not of a sadistical brutal nature personally, but failed in his duty in as ljach as he oxcrciscd no control over his subordinates and perLiitted ti.cu to ccirry out brutal treatment # H^ cn^a^cd in porscnally purc:.asin£i caiitcen rcquira.ents and re-selling tliしじ to prisoners at cnornous profits. He did not cxcrciso sufficient control over rations. Ho was responsible tlirou^L his subordinates of sondint; hundreds of nen who were . considered medically unfit by our ovm nedical officers, out to work daily # uJl'JJ Claiown as H h e _bcy bastard Tl.is Lian vc.s a Forecoriしuard about 25 years of ^ c ; about 5 feet 6 inches in hoi乙ht and fairly yell built. To kiioT/lGd^e tl.is nan was identified at a paruuc of suspected v/ar criranals at B^n^ok• iLis i.oun was conspicuous anon^ the ^uardc for consistently brutal and sadistic treatnent of prisoners including officers. His conduct wしs narked by daily bashing of prisoners and hvu.iliQtiii^ treatnent • Tlicsc r.cn r;orc Fere an Guards. yuni uas a “_an of about 38 years of He ：、s a ruy-boncd type of rxm v;ith a large nuiibcr of £old and silver teeth # Ho uas about ^ ft 0 8 incI.c-Ĝ iri hci^ht^ Kat siuui was about 2ら years of a£o t of slight build f with a pecur^kiしped l.ead, bcint large at the top and narror;in^ down to the cliin. These two rorcans c^ricd out tho duties of "orderly soldier"〜;itliin the car.jp # “s such they responsible for procedure v'itLin the cai.:p and T:cre also responsible for tho nui^bcrs of prisoners sent out to v;orlc on the reality line daily. These v;ort> tho i;jen •vvl.c, when the numbers of prisoners sclcctcd for t;orl: r/ero lov; f cersonally pcraded the sick and sclcctcd hundreds of sick nen to gc to work• 10. ェ sue•しr to the truth of the contents of the folloyin^ docuLients General report of ； ŷ coi.x.ond and U Force (subsequently known as attached to the report subr.iittod in Novcnbcr 1945• AcL-^inistration of Fo. 3 Battalion Srecn porcc) and all appendices by nc to Hq Western CcLjiuand AidF S n o m by the said Cl-^rles Edv:ard ) GREEN は pcrth in tho state； of ) western Australia on this 5th ) day of i-^rch ) (Signed) C.%. Major• Before rx； (Signed) CUOTOT^ A CcrXxissioncr cf the suprenc Court of Western Australia for taking affidavits. rvidentiary Dccui.:crit Ho. 5^75• 8. This is the docuiicnt r^jrked Exhibit «s n referred to in the affidavit cf 7X39006，幻• Lloyd s\7orn before dd this twenty- seventh day of i.$.iy 194^ as bein^; produced and shevna to hin at the tii:c of Lis shearing Lis said affidavits ( S i G ^ ) R-D. CRixMPTON, Capt. Ai-i officcr cf tlie Australian lilitary Forces Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. 茨/タ 冬 Û TEPtNムT+IONAL IfTLITiJTY TRIBUIL：丄 ̂ GR 'IFIL FaR EiST N C . 1 TEE UNITED ST.̂ TIIl.S OF AIERinA, and ors. 一 against - ARAKI. SiJM〜_ and ors. I I, FREDI.HICIC HUGH BASTiFORD, nalce oath and say as follows, \ / 1. fy ijcuy nunber is E2 70685； rani;, chaplain/captain; full ,naae, Frederick EugIi Bashf crd, 2/h CCS. home address, 3 l^arcixie | Flats, The Esplanade, Balr.ioral,Koi^ south rules. 2. On 2 June 19紅2 tlie undGmentioned nen of the 2/U A.T. Reしt» ! escaped from captivity at T^voy aerodrone COI^J, in rhlcL I was confined a that tiije •- YJk53hk r/.0 II Quitterton M/ V231地6 SSt & Dcnerher C.E. •031670 Bdr 0 CuamixiG T.S. Tli0k3 Edr. Glover 7X18444 l/Bdr. Er.3Xtt ム•ム, V£Ji-7903 Gnr„ Filson J..-.T. VX27292 Gnr. Reeve A» VX46835 Gnr. Jones The uen uere reoap-tured. Brigadier yarley (nou deceased) was notified to be present at their execution at 5 P e ra 0 oii 6 June 1942. ^Bi'iSadior yarley drafted a letter of protest to the Japanese caiip coouandant at •pavoy Aerodroi.je caE^p. letter was delivered personally. This letter of protest フus of no avail,and Bri^ac.ier varley then decided to see the hiGhest-rankins Japanese officer in tiie district to protect against the cxecution» H© was taken to j/jijor Itsui at Tavoj'. 3. if any trial of these nen was hold they certainly T,ere not represented by a r.Biiber of the _uIF or PSF, I v:ent to the place of execution rith srijadier yarley and sar theia Gxecuted ( j • •— 1 1 • '. • I . 一 • . — •. (Si&ned) F.Ii. BASHFORD. Sv‘。rn before ne at Sydney on the Fourth day of sopteuber 194^• (Signed) A o J 0 r^TSFIEID. jud^e of suprene Court of Queensland. E'/identisry Document Ko 0 5038B r ふ INTEJ.KATIONAL KILITAKY 1MBUNAL FOR THE FAB. E A S L ' t K O . 1 , THE UNITED STATES OF ALEi.ICA AI\D O E S . -AGAINST - •ARAKI, SADAO，MD ORS, I, GEORGE ERNEST KA1ISAY of SYDNEY in the State of New South Wales, make oath and say as follows:- 1 . I was NX349995 Lt. Cし1。George Ernest Ramsay, 2/30 Australian Infantry Battalion, when I became a F»O.W 0 at Singapore in February 1942. In April, 194-2, I was transferred to 2/18 Battalion, I 2. On reaching MERGUI on 24 May, ]preparations had teen made for our had been moving around looking for decided on the Lergui School a ! 3. The area was capable of holding about 600 to 800 with i reasonable comfort but on arrival at I'lERGUI there were 5〇0 United ! Kingdom troops from SUMATRA and ェ was told that I had to take I command of the whole force - that was, there was to be a total of ；1500 men in this school c a m p . A great number of the British troops I had dysentery. Conditions for the first 10 days or more were very ‘overcrowded| there was no proper sanitary accommodation; the ‘waterlogged ground prevented the digging of more latrines > T ere I were no hospital facilities, We had 17 deaths at L'ergui “12 ！ British and 5 Australians. j 4. Three men were shot at liergui - Australians named Davies, Bell I and Schubert» They allegedly tried to escape» I am satisfied f that the first 2 did try5 but the third man, Schutert, was only 1 out trying to get some food» I made representations in each case ；to the Japanese commander, pointing out that it was contrary ！ to the Conventions j he pointed out in his turn that te would place | my representations before lusjor ITSTJI, commander of the garrison for the whole area* I was assured that my representations were placed before the coranander and I was informed that he (ITSUI) was quite adamant, and that the men were to be shot t They were shot. We were not present 4 They were taken away cn a truck early one morning and we did not actually.'' see them at any timo。 We were subsequently officially informed ? verbally, that they had been 丨 shot. In•the esse of Schubert, I wjb assured chat nothing would 1 happen to him before I was seen again - that once more they were ！ forwarding my representa11cns to エ T S U I , and then they told me that ! Schubert would not "be shot until I had been notified» In his case, when he was first captured 5 he aggravated the offence by jumping out of the Jap guardroom window! had 1 he not done that I might have been able to save him e In fact, the padre spoke to me one morning 1942, it was obvious that no reception. The Jeps evidently a camp site and finally had 、-ft Evidentiary Document No。 5〇38B 丄’ | and said he had passed a truck and Schubert was in it with his hands j tied, and Schubert ais the truck sped 了ast had called out "Does ！ the Colonel know they 1re going to shoot me?". I went up to the ；Jap commander's quarters and on the way there エ heard a shot or '.shots. I reminded the commander of his promise that the man would ：not be shot without first notifying me, but he said that it could not have done any good, since ITSUI had ordered that Schubert had ‘to be shot. i 5. We got to Tavoy in late August or September, 1942, The camp ！ consisted of mixed forces including 200 Dutch from the Netherlands East Indies, I was in Tavoy for about 4 months. Soire men were caught whom the Japs alleged were stealing from the Jap stores. | Two men were beaten - Hinton and Gaut, Also Sgt. Goggin s They .were taken away to Tavoy g a o l , T h e y reported to me on their return. | There was a Jap sergeant in charge of the camp and he said he had ；no jurisdiction over the KEKPEエ TAI P According to the story of the j three men, they were tortured, and a Burmese assisted the Japs at i the g a o l . M i n t o n was made to kneel with a pole tight in behind his knees and he was forced backwards, while a K E M ^ E I TAI Jsp stood I at one end of the pole and the Eurmese on the other. They worked ；up and down at the ends of the pole, forcing it to move backwards, ；and roll in between his knees. A Jap officer stood in front of ！ him and hit him back with a golf club each time he tried to lean j forward to ease the p a i n。 Gaut was punished in similar style, 'but in addition he had big weals across his back from a knotted ；rope* - his back was hurt and when I last saw him he was not fully ；recovered from his back injury.エ saw him about 2 years afterwards; ；the last time I saw him. I saw him immediately after the torture. j Minton had red bruises behind his knees« Gaut's back was strained. | 6, Men at Tavoy did aerodrome work. They were enlarging the drome j It was a military drome。'‘ し. -* Sworn before me at Sydney on the tenth dey of September,194-6. /s/ G. E , Ramsay. /s/ R . L . Deasey J,F« Evidentiary Document No, 5156. Page I, VX39006 购.or John Kevin LLOYD of Army Headquarters inake oath and say； ェ am an officer of the Australian Lilitary Forces, 2, Annexed hereto and narked "Q" is a true copy cf an affidavit sworn by LICMEL マIYI^N HUDSON on 17 February 1946 which ェ have 111 î y custody in the course of rjy duties, Tiie original affidavit cannot be made available iixiediately as it is required for trials of Liinor war criminals. (Signed) J # ILC5ZD, m j o r . SV/ORN before me at jvplbourne this 27th day of 1购 1 9 4 ^ (Si^ed) R.D, CHXPTCr, Capt. An officer cf the Australian Military Forces• Evidei tiary Dccuiaent ギ 5 274« I ,嫡. «c« On this seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, Lionel yivian HUDSCN, of 229 re フ South ：了ead Ho ad, in the state of j.jê scut], ̂ dles 7 journail£f;, r ニ o a t h and says as l'ol.loi7Ss- /!• エ v:as foruerly Fo‘ i|00i|i-& ^iiiL-Coixiander L//. IIUDSOr, H.^.a.F.i and v/しs ；senior officer of the Air Forcc Coxrjpound in Rangoon prison under the Japanese frcn January 1945 to 购y l^io • 2. During l^irch 1945, Li^ut, p # F . Almond, U.S.ii.A.F. and s^t. jack IfIL T G, a.A.F. • developed acute beri-beri, dysentery, and becaue very weak. It was obvious that they needed neaical attention, but when the Japanese iiiediCi-1 officer (Bullneck) and Japanese nedical orderly, pte YATAKOTA (as he v. T as kncwn to us) ivere apprcached by ne for vitamin injections and stren^theiiin 0 food fcr tiieu they (the said officer and pte) refused tl.is aid \?ith the explanation that the two airinen v/ere dyin^ anyLov;• During a period of about 3 I liade representations of this sort to the Soid Orderly cn dozens of occasions as did the patients th^selves and iiuiiierous others of our companions. There is no dcubt that he knew what we r/ere askin b fcr but Lis attitude in rしply never changed. He said in effect thot as the ucn were dyiri^ tl.ere Wc;.s nc point in wasting mcdical supplies on theu* Dじrinレt: is period the s^id medical officer rarely came near us but on the several occasicns cu w*iicl. he did エ iQddle the sane regじests of ain but his replies T/ere always to the sau.e cffect as those of the said Orderly. 3* Beccminじ satisfied that the above representations would be of no avail i wrote a letter to tht Conmandant of the prison v/hose naiae T do not knoiT but who \:a.s knewn to as "Tlî bi^ T^i エ have not a copy of this letter but fron notes xi^de cf it at tlie tiiue can say thc-t it was to the following cffcct： Lave a nuiiiber of officers and nen here in a critical condition and request that at 1しast tuo of then, ring and 丄JLuond, be transferred, to the British Ar;..̂ Coi;:pcund v/ht,re proper x.-cdical trcatuent is constantly available. h^vc neither k n o T / lし n o r facilities to carc for the nen. »• Tliis letter r;as r/rittcn in ^n^lish “s エ knして/ interpreters vjere avuiluble. I î î vo it to tho serしcしnt of thレ Quaru at inspection T i ^ who undertook to deliver it for ue. 4« On 2j IvCbrch l' y k5t the cooianciant made one of his fev/ visits to cur conpound toid asked to see cur hcspital and the LX-II T;1-O I had told were Geriously i l l . 1 tool: liiia “nd showed uih： tho cell vhicl, re had been usinし as a hospital; it v/as 、一 b^rc concrctc coll and contained no bcdo.irig or otuer furniture, exempt ニ ft,w;ba^3 フc had stolon. He tcck a quick loci: at the cell including the t\io seriously ill patients, when lie looked at the patients (uhc wしrし truly in an auf、l condition) he turned av/aン and v.ralLcd out uithout r^, any coiiiacnt.ムs the Ccrxiandaiit uulkcd out of the Cuレpound エ rtpしated tc hii..ijy previous request that the two Airnen be adi.attcd to the British ^ u y Respited but he did net reply • 5 ' On 26 inarch 1945, the nodical pto eibovc referred to, liiiiidしd me a note in Ln^lish fror.1 the Lxcdical officer also ubevo referred to, つ ) '， ：ノ A Evidontiar^ Dccuncnt 祐 3274• f\ 2. which said in effect that エ（this deponent) was not in a position to say whether or not the iucn T7oro seriously ill, anci also it was not pi-opcr for tie to' vrritc to the CoLiaandant dircct. Tbis letter vus destroyed soon ciftcrv/ards. I v:as redding tLe netし the jop^ncse Liedical orderly hit ne a nunber cf tiucs cii tLe facc しnd head vit1 “ his open h ^ d . バ few idnutcs later the said nedical officcr uppoarcd c.nd punched ne about hall' a dozen tiucs in the face with his fist. ：：6 aid not say anytl: ら• received no further assistar.ee for the dyin^ men and both Li^ut. ；JĴ OID and s^t. riNG were dead v/ithin a vcck irou the 26 March 1$45* 1• In addition to the raedicaioffi cer and orderly £.bovc referred to there was a jape-nose Medical ser^Ooiat -jhea rurcly sar； bt v/Lon I did on several occasions ask fcr nedicul assistanc^ for the a^ino nen, however i his attitude i s the cs that cf tii( others. ！ by tho abovし一riuL必d, Lionel Vivian ELTjCONI at Sydney on the seventh d-y of F̂ brucj：^ , one thousand nine hundred mid forty-six. (Sibncd) LIOIvZL IIUD。0N. Before.ユふ， (Signed L. SIISFFIIII) (?) A Justice of the pt,oCe # SI-^BIT "。人 This is the docunent narked DcLibit 吖ゾ referred to in the affiduvit of VX39 し 06 Ma j. J 0 Y. Lloyd sworn before ne t M s 27lh day cf 1546 as bein- produced and shc*:n to hii.: at tlic tine of his swe^ii^ his Sc id affidavit. (Sl^cd) CK.JTT0F, Cupt. Ai'i officer ct the Australian lilitary Forces. Evidentiary Document No, 5156. Page I, VX39006 购.or John Kevin LLOYD of Army Headquarters inal:e oath and say： 1. I ain an officer of the Australian Lilitary Forces^ 2. Annexed hereto and marked "Q” is a true copy cf an affidavit sworn by LIONEL Tr IYI^M HUDSON on 17 February 1946 which I have in iiiy custody in the course cf ny duties. 3. Tlie original affidavit cannot be xoade available imediately as it is required for trials of minor war criminals• (Signed) J. LLOYD, I^jor. SVCRN before at j^lbcurne this 27th day of iv̂ y 194^ (Signed) P.D. CRXPTOr, Capt. An officer of the Australian Military Forces• Evidentiary Document 李 5^74• pi i ^^ 丨c w On this seventh day of February, One thousand nine hundred and f'orty-six, Lionel yivian HUDSON, of 229 rev/ south l-̂ ead 只oadt 2clo-ecliff in the state of soutli ^ales s j o u r n a l s e b , o a t u and says as l'ollov/&.- Cl. I was foriuerly Fo. 4。0lUî "in^-Coimander L.V. IHDSOr, and wしs senior officer of the Air Forcc cor^cund in Rangoon priscn under the Japanese frcu January 1945 to l/uy 1943 • During ！匁rch 19431 Lieut. p # F. Almond f U.S.^.a.F. and Q^t. jack iriNG, a.A.F., developed acute beri-beri f dysentery, and becaue very weak. It v/as obvious that they needed nedical attention, but when the Japanese medical officer (Bullneck) and Japanese nedical orderly, pte YA1'Al'OTA (as he v/as known to us) v/ere apyrcaciied by rae for vitamin <»B” injections and strengthening food fcr then; they (the said officer and pte) refused this aia T?ith the explanation that the two airmen v/ere dyin^ anyhow• During a period of about J vieeks エ luade representations of this sort to the Said orderly cn dozens of occasions as did the patients thじ];“selves and i!ui“erous others of our comp-nions, "There is no doubt that he knew what we were asking for but Lis attitude in rしply nearer changed. He said in effect th^t us the :.ien were dyin^, tLere iirus no point in wasting medical supplies on t!€：.：• D^rin^t： is period the suid nedical officer rarely came near us but on the several occasions cu wLtici” lit did エindde the sai;ie inquests of hin but his replies vere always tc the saiiie effect as those of the said Orderly. B し cciiiiii。 satisfied that tho above r epr e sent at i on s wo じId be of no avail I wrote a letter to the Connundant cf the prison whose naiac エ dlo not knov but who known to as "TliG biも T^i エliave not a copy of this letter but fron notes ii^de of it at the tiiae can say t】iし.t it was to the folloiyin^ cffect • " T :し have a number of officers and men here in a critical condition and request that at 1しast tuo of therj, ring tmd Aluond, bo tranaferrud to the British Ar:jy Compound \/hcre proper x.:.cdical trcatuent is constantly available. ，hc.vc neither knowlしd^e nor facilities to care for the nen 0 “ This letter ；vas written in jSrî lish “s エlaw; xritcirpreters yere avuiluble. I ^tivo it to tho sergeant; of tlw Guaru at Inspection "Time who unaertock tc deliver it for no. k* On 23 l^rcL 1,45, the contianciant niacie one of lii? few visits to our ccnpcund and asked tc see our hospital and tho nen TJLO エ LLしd told him were seriously i l l . j took hin and shewed hi]] tht： cellて,hie:., ve had boon usinし as a hospital; it was c. bare ccncrcto ccll and contained 110 bcao.ix% cr other furniture except ニ fしw ba^s vc had stolon 4 lie tock a quick lock ct the cell including the tuo seriously ill p&tionts, When ho looked at the patients (r/ho wし：rし truly in an ar/f'̂ 1 condition) he turned ^aj- and v:all:cd out uithout vjuk5ai:y cohiucnt.ムs the Corxiandant walked out oi the Coi.pound エ rtpしated tc i^y previous request that the two Airiien be adLdtted to the British atu^- Hospittil but he did net reply• 5- On 26 i./iarch 1945f the ncdicai pto cibeve referred to, li“ndじd me a note in aaじlish froiii tlio uedical officcr also above； referred to, へ, Evidentiary Docui^nt * S274t rj ‘I 9 whicn said in effcct that I (this deponent) was not in a position to say whether or not the iucn vcto seriously ill, and also it was not px-opor for nc tQ' vrrite to the Comnandunt dircct. Ti.is lutter was destroyed soon ciftcrv/trds.ム s I \:as redding the note the jopv.ncse uedical order ly hit me a nunber cf tiiacs cn tLe face しnd head ritl丄 his open hcj-id. “ few idnutes later the said nedical off iccr uvrocui\;d end punched me about half a dozen tiues ir. the face with his fict. aid riot say anytx.in^ 珂c received 110 furthtr assistance for the dyin乙 râ n arid both Li し ut* ょ and Q^t. rWiJr T-;erc dead vithin a we ok iroLi the 26 j/^rch 1S45. (• In addition to the ncdicaiofficcr and orderly above referred to there was a jap<.nose I,衫die.ユ Ser。しî nt フhe:ユ v:e rarely sur; lit wLon 1 did on several occasions a s i : f cr uedic^l assistance for the dyin^, r.icn f however, his attitude r/»s the cs that cf the others. / S101P by the abovc-n,«d“ed, Lionel Vivian HUDGON, at Sydney on the soventL d^y of F^brac.ry, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, (Signed) U011ZL IIUD^OM. Before JUC, (Signed L. SI-IIFFILID (?) A justice oi" the ？tocc. S>r 7 I3IT “。 This is the docui.icnt narked ipcLibit "广ゾ referred to in the affidavit cf V X 3 9 し m j • J.Y. Lloyd svern before ue tl is 27th day of May 1546 as boin̂ j； produced and sho:'n to hin at the tine of his his Sc.id affidavit. (Sificd) Ti.D. CI^JTTOr, Cupt. Ai'i officer cf the Au^trulian lilitary Forces, Doc. Eo. 5454 ノ 3 乏 i. ,smpsLS i^R&UI - ?:i!lIHiUK ROAD. Prosecution Docunent nurn'oered. 5125, the Affidpvit of Major V. , is now introduced, for identification, the excerpts narked, wherein are IIOV offered in evidence. This docunent states that in April, 1945, the witness arrived at the Top Camp, t-rhich \-re.s to "be used to accoニニoc.ate prisoners "building the road iron kergui to Kirikhari. .. .The Top Canp hp.d "been used for the acconnoda.tion of coolies '̂ho had left "before we arrived. ！There vere three very "broken dovm bats, one without a roof• This v?as the season when it rained almost continuously and in viev r of the fa.ct ihat x.iie huts v̂ ere situated in a. rs.vine surrounded "by high trees, we never hs.cL the chance to dry our kit and clothing. The food consisted of rice and dry vegetables and. v/as so short in quantity that after about 3 v/eeks most of the prisoners vere suffering from Deri—"beri and other deficiency diseases, •added to the shortage of food, prisoners 〜"/ere suDjected to excessive work, and I rene^lDer a period vhen vork vent on fron a"bout 0830 in the morning until 2 or 3 o'clock the follov/ing norning, Wien this was the case there vras no opportunity for prisoners to have meals in snd buckets of rice and vegetable stev hs.d to be sent, out to the wrkine site. The sici&-ra.te vhich had，oeen about 30 to 4書 men per aa.y rose after aoout 3 w-eks to to 70 二en per day, the Bost usual cor^ylaints "bein^ deficiency diseases and nalaxia. In viev of the high sick-r^te as aforesaid,エ hpd to esk for some of the wrst cases to "be eve,cuated. This v.as always refusea...-" Medical suoolies vere meagre. Although no deaths occurred aニong P/W at this ca«mp, of the tttal of alDOut 1,000 nen vio set out fr6^i Eekonpeton to ouild the road, a "bout 250 died in f tur nonths ovring to the lack of nedical sircvolies, overwork, ine.c,equa,te food end the i.isgrpceful living conditions. Evidentiary Document -jf 5^5• 9 IH THE J.KTTEE QF JAPANESE OR I I A N D IN THE mTTEH OF THE ILL-TREATMENT OF m i : m E R 8 CI T7AE DURII^ THE BUILDING OF TEE MEHJUI-IQRIKHiiN HOaD BET̂ TEIIN APRIL AM) AUGUST 1945. A F F I D A 7 I T, I ’ • I, YTi^CZm BENNETT,膝jor, Royal Arniy Medical Corps, with pernjanent address at H.A.M.C. Officers 1 I,!ess, Millbank, London, S.!7 # l#» make oath and say as follows:- 工 was taken prisoner by the Japanese at SIIIGAPOFIE on the 15th Feb ruary 1942 and after passing through various prisoner of war camps I coinmenced the journey from 腿【ON PATON on the 11th April 1945 f o r the purpose of proceed j to a jungle cainp which was bein^ used for the accommodation of prisoners of wa： j engaged on the building of the LEFiGUI-ICIRIKHAI- 7 T^oad. The party of prisoners ！ which left NAKON PATON as aforesaid consisted of about six to seven hundred me; | and two officers f one of whom v/as Captain CAYLEYt R,A 4 M # C» t and the other xnyse. | 20 On the 13th April 1945 7 J e arrived at the so-called Base Camp, als( i referred to as KIRKHAJS!" Camp, and from there set cut on a march towards the ！ j u n g l e . T h i s march t o o k f c u r d a y s and on t h e 1 7 t h A p r i l ェ a r r i v e d a t t h e s o - j called TOP Camp with about half the complement cf prisoners v/hc had originally 1 set out from KAirON FAT'OIT. The other half stayed at a camp about 4 kilometres ！ short of the TOP Ĉ rap under the coumand of the said Captain CAYLEY. i j 3» The TOF C咖P had oeen used for the accoiamodation of coolies ？/ho kc ！left before we arrived^ There were three very broken down huts, one v/ithout a j roof • This uas the season when it rained aliiiost continuously and in view cf tl j fact that; the huts were situated ip a ravine surrounded by hi^'h trees, we nevej I had the chance to dry our kit and c lo thing # ；4* The food consisted of rice and dry vegetables and was so short in j quantity that after about 3 v;ecks inost of the prisoners —were suffering from be: ；beri and other deficiency diseases• Added to the shortage of food, prisoners :were subjected to excessive work, and I romember a period when work went on fr ；about 083c in the morning until 2 or 3 ひ 1 clock the follov/in^; morning # Vfhen th I v;as the. cas沄 there was np opportunity for prisoners to have meals in carnp.̂ and :buckets 6f rice and ve^etiible、st6y: had to" be. sent out to the working site. • • * < * f » • 9*1 I , ；5* T^e, sick-rate which had. been about 30 or 4〇 men per day rose after ；S about 3 weeks tc 60 to 70 inen per day, the most usual coroplaints being defic- ！ iency diseases and malaria• in- view of. the hi^h sick-rate, as aforesaid, I. i had to ask for some of tho, v/orst cases to be evacuated• This was always refuse ！ At that time the Japanese officers in command were Lt • KONDA, Lt, SAITO and i another Lieutenant v;hose name ェ do not know. These three officers inspected t) j sick parade- every xnomin^ and. usually agreed uith my assessment of their； abilii 1 to work or to be excused from work as the case icay- be, j^art frpm their^ refuse j to permit the evacuation of the ucrst cases 工 have no particular complaint ：against these, Japanese officers, except "that the' officor-t^hose name I do notパ | knoT7 : f • and who spoke quite good English, insisted on sick prscners (permission i for v/hese evacuaticn I had at last obtainoS after unsuccessful attempts lastly j about 3 t o 4 w e e k s ) c a r r y i n g , a p a r t f r o m t h e i r ov/n- k i t , two p i c k s each-when j they T7ere finally evacuated• This evacuatiGn had— to take place on foot over a I distance of about 17 kilci20tres # Those prisoners ivhc v/ere unable to walk had | to be carried by their comrades on improvised stretchers. ; j u d i c a l supplies v;ere practically non-existent. This was due to the J fact-that the Japanese medical officer in charge of NiEON PATON- Hospital had rc jfrsed to provide •？ne with any medical supplies when the party' left NiiK0N BaTON . Evidentiary Document 5 ^ 5 2 . as set out in paragraph 1 above, ser j ean t j or HXRUTA whom I nou recognise as N。。281 on plate 23 acted as go-betT7eexi and messenger between the TOP C^ap and KiJ:ON PATON。 In spite of the fact that he was frequently told to bring medical supplies with him T7hen he returned from HAKON PATON he never brought such supplies and エ suspectcd that he sold them on the v/ay to coolies in order to obtain money for his ovm benefit. 7» こ Ui spite of the conditions described abcve, no deaths occurred aicong prisoners of war at this camp a of a total of about 1,000 prisoners of v/ar, ho~:ever, r/ho had set out from MAKON PATOIT for the purpose of building the MEEGUI-IORIEIL^了 Head 5 about 2^0 to the best of xoy laiowledge died in the space cf aiout 4 months oiTing to lack of medical supplies f 、 overwork f inadequate food supplies and the deplorable living conditions.j SiTOHK by the said VINCEKT HCNNET) at 6 spring Gardens in the city ) of :;^estminster this 1st day of ) (signed) Y, BEHKETT. ]Vprch 1946. ) Before me, (Signed) F. HONIG. Captain Legal staff• Military Department judge Advocate General<s Office, London, Examined with original affidavit at H““ ALFSEA this sixteenth day of ^ r i l a n d certified a true copy # (Signed) E C L. URGLiffiCH. Lt-Col.,Legal Staff, マar Crimes Legal section, ALFSL^L, Singapore # / ダ - 夕 Loc. No. 5^55 P^ge 1 SYNOPSIS G . Clvil_irns. in Sir-r.» r) Prosecution doemtnt n-ui.bcrcd 5156, t̂ し /-ffidrvit of Miss M,«J。K. IXGKISS, is offered for idcrrtific?tion, rnc： t>e Eirrkcd cxccrpts therein nov produced in cx^iclcncc» T v is docu- ment strtes t>-° t tV c witness WF S 7ァitト.twenty-one otVcr Zuropems intcxnccl °t K-r.pong ToV. On 13 Dccer:bcr,1941,.e.igトt Indi?.n soldiers were pushed into t v t roor.i ̂ e r t t v c internees T/Gre- living. Shortly pftcr ？ J^pr nc sc soldier t>re•巧 r v?nd grenpde into t v c room. T v c witness vvs u.nrtle. to move es Vcr トip wrs injured. TT;O J^prncsc soldiers entered tVC room, one firing en euton?.tic gun, t v c ot]"cr t'-vonctting people lying on t>e floor. T>~e witness vf S lying undcrnc?T? sonic people ?nd vi^. s thus srvccl fror,. further- injury. ム nunber of people were killed rnd F.rny others injured. T u c Jrpmcsc t>cn nir.de off in ？lorry. b) Prosecution Docuncnt nurbcrしd 5394, f-c ぶ..ffirnrtion of tli'iLU fJ.L is nov introduced for identificrtion ?nci t^c cxccrpts mrrked f-crcin produced in cvidcncc. TV is docuxicnt strtes thet t v c T/itness v/ns rrrcstccl by t^c Krr,pcit?i r.t H m r u n g . When Sirnesc policcncn tried to piocurc t v c witness's rclcpsc, they too were rrrxstcd. Rrn vie. s t- ken to C v rj： p o m ：一 "••For. tY(. next ten drys I マrs beaten a tig stick, w M l c r.j' ̂ rnds r nd feet ncrc tied, rnd told to spcrk t>c truth. I do not knor; rhrt t^cy v/mtcd nc to spcrk t v c truty ？"bout, ?skしd r.ifc no questions. During V-±s tint I ハ’p s given sr^ll b-'ll of i'icc .̂ nd r stick of rr.vj cucuribcr drily for food. On t>c： elcvi nt^ dry v/r tcr vp s forccd into ny stompc v , rnd. vr r ~cn ny stonrc v vip s full,t>c J>ps jumped Doc,. No. 5455 メ Prgt 2 on it rnd I be erne unconscioiis.エ broug v t round "by t?/o Jrp soldiers thrcr; colc urtcr ovtx rx. For next ti.'O dxys I v:r.s suspended fron ? bcr.ra by t v o T/rists, witト ny toes brrcly touching the ground. T v £rc � r s r. "ire tied to r:.y v;rists rnd ?. clrr.:,p f?stened to my urist. Electricity w?s prsscd t'-rou§ v these -ires r.nd ny r.rns rnd body wore burned, T v c p?in rrdc mc cry out continurlly ? rnd tVcre sccncd to "be トooks plucking rt ny Y7volc body. After txso dpys of rlnost continur.l cur-rcnt being pr.sscd tl-rougV rnc, during W''ic v tine I s only given snrll quantities of wr.tcr to drink, I becrnc unconscious u Before t'-is, tVe Jrps rccused nc of being p British ！?py, ^nd of p votogrrp ving r-eroplrnes, m d sending r.cssages to London. Ls I cannot tven ?/ritc my n?nt,エ tried to point out t v rt tトis c^rrgt v/r s ridiculous. T vcy did not stop t ,� currcnt During f is tine I sr̂ 'R I usr l:cnon, v; 1 'O TJP S prrc stcd t^c ciry before i.x, being given t r c ？/rtcr torture, by t v c s m c I. a P' s 1/.个o tortured nc. T v c I .P' s ？/ere still trying to r.irkc rc confess t'T t エ xrns r. Brit is], spy. After I rrrivee?. rt Kr^pc-M fron C v unporn, ny v/rists 。nd legs were c r rrrcd to t'-c bone fron the results of the clcctric tortures rnd. just rs they were- Veiling, t>-c I..P's used to stick burning cigrrcttcs into tトし sores. In t^e end t v cy tied sone t M n fishing line on to ny tcsticlc s, vit v such r knot tト。t tl'e blood て.:?".s cut off frorr： t>osc orgつns。 し other Doc, No. 5455 ^ P^gc 3 end of t^c fishing line v/rs tied to tYc 1 1 . I wrs r.^dc to lie dov/rij rncl t v c line v/rs tightened. Then r rope \/r s put rround ny ncck rnd it t;rs pulled tigトt to t> c opposite I v.vs ir'i considcrrblc p r i n . T V c n t h i'.P. lorded r rifle rnd 计 r c r t c n c d to sトoot nc if エ did not tell tvcr.i vjVcre t se virclc ss set yr. s トidden。エ iiiplorcd then to kill r.ic, ?.s エ knu7 notVing m c \70v.la only V r v c to "be subj octcd to norc torture if エ l i v e d , エ t l ^ c n released ？-nd brought tovjrrds t^e grol» I つ sked to be rllovtd to go to tト、r：.C. rnd vr s led tovrrrds tYr t nlrce, tvrougv t h lD?tトroom。 On f-c floor of t>c brtl-- roor. I sp，:! V'c body of Vv.ŝ „ Fc ^p S definitely derdj rnd v i s "body じ"s nrV'td rnd covcrcd witトline... ...t v c Jrp?ncsc continued to bcrt re. I w?s t'xrc for p.bout sしven months。 Oncc, P t^ll I!.P. Tvitト r lot of gold tcctト put ？ rcd-vot v/irc UT) t u c ccntr^ of penis. I v；"s "bcrtしn plnost dr.ily, rnd in tYc end could not even vjrlk. ぬフ序 Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. S U I 1 U OF E X A M H . I O N of LIAUREEN JOY IIAEGARET M G K E S S Formerly a stenographer of FINYOK Eli®, Yala, South Siam now at Vajiravndh College, BANGKOK, BIAM. M.J.M. IlaGNESS ha vine been duly sv/orn, states:- I, Kaureen JoynKargaret L'iAGWESS, am 2.3 years of age, by occapation a stenographer formerly employed by the Thailand Tin Mines ：し.：;d” and living at the PINYOK MINE, Yala, SOUTH SIAM with my mother and father, and at present living st Va^iravudh College, BANGKOK, S I M . エ present on oath the statement which I cade on arrival at BANGKOK — o n 23 Julyj. 1942,J A copy of this report was sent to the head office of my fir in in L 01. DON 0 I was an internee at the time, and as my parents were to my certain knowledge murdered by SIAIIESE Police I had to gloss over this part of the incident, Apart from this I certify on oath that my report is correct and true in every j detail.iI see it marked Exhibit "A" and attached to this summaryT/ I wish, nowever, now slightly to amplify various details• I have NO charge to make against either ITai PRIKG or Kai Pravine NANDIWONGSE. I am unable to describe the f-irst four Japanese soldiers エ saw on 10 Dec. 4 1 . N a i ANA is now working in tho Thai State Railway department in BANGKOK„ He was very good tc mo and I have KO charge to make against him. The two Japanese officers that he accompanied against his wish I can describe,ェ think that one of them was a Captain, about 7 ft. tall, well made, wore glasses, slightly scholarly stoop e He had iong straight black hair. He was good-looking e He spoke perfect Malay in which he conversed with my Kother e His eyes were NOT p-conoujicedly slit, bivt were r o u n d .ェ think his name was something like ANDO, The second officer was about きft 10 ins * tall, Liore broadly "built than the other but a fine physical specimen. He were NO glasses, NO moustache and short black hair, a round healthy face, small eyes but NOT particularly slanting» He was a Major and seemed to be in charge» I did hear his name but I can HOT remember it. After wc had been shut in Mr. Van der STRAATELi 1 s house the cars which had brought them drove on Southward towards BETOliG, and we never saw these tv/o a g a i n ,ェ am almost certain they left with the cars a and had NO concern in what followed• It was ono cf these two who tock my passport. Of the Japanese soldiers who guarded us in Mr. Van der STR/LATEN i S bungalow there were so many who were changed so frequently that I can NOT describe any of them now, The SGnior Japanese of.ficer who visited us on 11 Dec. <-1 was ugly, short and fac5 about ^ fc A- ins tall, cleanshaven, without glasses, natural teeth, fat round face 9 I do NOT know his nncie „ The interpreter was Just an ordinary Jap" to look at and speke very poor English but in an English accent. The grenade was thrown into the room by Evidentiary Document Ko. 5156 Japanese who came in the truck that br ought the Indian PW, NOT the normal guards. The truck came fx-om the direction of YALA. I do NOT know which Japanese did the shooting and bayonetting. Among the Siamese who came into the bungalow to look after the bomb was thrown was "Dr" S M N A T , He was the one who took my w a t c h .エ did NOT recognise the ethers. After SANKAT had looted me he was the one who carried me away to the other bungalow and finally to the hut., I now wish to mafte quite clear how ny mother and father and Mr• THOMAS were killed as far as エ was able to observe. About eight Siamese Police whom I mention as finally coming into my hut were responsible • There can be NO doubt about this. There was NO one else about at the time. I heard them pass my har in the direction of the bimgalow where the incident took piace« After exactly the time it would take to get from ray hut to the "bungalow I heard the first shot and the cry of pain. After the time it would, take to cross the road from this bungalow to the other where my parents were I heard the second and third shots, It was immediately after that that I heard the same Siamese voices coming back. The jarty then came into my room, all carrying rifles• There can be NO doubt that one or more of them had committed the three murders and that the remainder were accessories • Even if there could be any doubt at that deserted time and place r 'DR" SANKAT was an eye-wi.tness of the shooting at least of my parents, and described, to me later exactly how ray mother died, ic,e. lying on the ground with her hands clasped as in prayer and. pleading for her life and entreat- ing them to look for and succour me e Also he told me that she was shot clean through the head, She, he said, was shot first, and afterwards my father« I do NOT consider such meticulous circumstantial detail could be a mere invention, and farther the men, who had already passed my hut would NOT have come in unless they had been told by someone that I was there, and it could only have been her, I do NOT know where "DR" SANNAT is to be found now but I can describe him and recognise him easily. He was about 5 ft 5 ins. tall ? slim, fairly well—developed, long black hair but a skin light for a Siamese, cleanshaven, no glasses, natural teeth. Speaks a little English, was a Convict in the penal settlement at the time. Tliey should know where to find him now. Nai CHUN I can describe a little. He was very small, thin, neat, very dark hair, cleanshaven, no glasses, na- tural teeth, wearing a Police Uniform, speaks Malay w e l l . I do NOT know where he is now. I have seen a sketch-plan marked Exhibit "B :l and attached to this sunmary, I certify it to be a good approximation of the layout except thet the bungalow marked (1)in the plan is where the incident took place. Nai Pasede PIEW whom I mention in 16 Dec B 41 admitted to me later that he was in the truck that brought the Japanese at the time of the explosion. He is tall (about ^ft 10 ins) thin, cleanshaven, no glasses, very big teeth in a very protruding mouth• He was senior warder of the penal settlement at TANICOM. I do NOT know where he is now, (signed) M . J. Magness (M. J. MAGNESS) Evidentiary Document No, 束 B u t l e r - J o n e s F r a n c i s Hosc.l?ke Stratford Hor-eKberg Kitiss M r . V a n deで S t r a a t e n M r s , V a n ce.~- S t r a a t e n Ilrs . Je ar ons Mr 6 TJa じ n<js’3 Mrs,. H a r n e s s M i s s M a g n e t s SWORN b e f o r e m e (signed) L t , C o l . , an officer of the E (C.Ac de Mう•，PTEB^E) ？oyal I r i s h F u s i l i e r s this e i g h t h day of Janii&ry.19'： o , :0o".c.iied i-c eニeuii.iie the a L o ^ e b y the C omma nd er • • in -C 'i A e i" ? Allied I. and Forc;er.s S o u t h - E a s t - A s i a • ( A u t h o r i t y : - A L F 3 E A W a r C r i m e s I n s t r u c t i o n N o . 1 P a r a。 7) / ！ 〜ー J 躅 ： 里 � j } 盟 巡 OFi;^..,：。级.巧:; i i — i ！ / 8th D e c e m b e r . : j We heard a broadcast from Singapore about 7.30 am of the snocan J a p a n e s e a c t ^ c k on K o t a 3 a r u , north-fiast of the Malay Peni:as-ila gno of zl̂ o. invasion of Thailand at Si agora 1 and P a t t a n i i j W e , tbe e m p l o y e e s oi' Tn^ JJ and T i n M i n e s v r ere udvised ！ to g e t r e a d y ro l e s v e . A t STprGXir^rte〕.” 2_ p..!n, vra w e r e i;つId to ； l g a v e . In one or the C c m p a n y ? s I orris s a p a r t y ol'3 womexi and 4 men left for the B?tong bolder い,’;'d.le the でest r^n&lned benind to L l o o k after the pj.&ce ；Airior.g trof fi who lo?じ w e r e Mrs,, .Tea-7one, M e s s r s 4 F r a n c e s , P.oschke aac; M r c anc! it"3 F a ^ n e 3 s and self* As w e p a s s e d b y K e — p o n g oh t s p i c k a d 1.て丨 M へ a！" a ¥x 3 , V a n der S t r a a t e n and Ifr, K i "'t;̂ v/̂ o.. vrers ； fesider：ts 01" tn.?. pla.;o and w h o wanted to get a w e y toe ) -h c.:n our jr,rrney e.iid t t o a t h a l f w a y t h r o u g h we were dots...ribd t / .m.て.Thai o.^fj cialc j Haj ? r i n g and N a i P r a v i n e Nand\/ongso T h a 7 strorig'i.7 edvitied to r e t u r n as there was fighting S "t/ vjTニfi jDC t '̂ ii ."bcideフニi a l s o on the p o i n t of c o m m a n d e e r i n g o-^r l o r r y r. W e .^pc-nt '-.oma :nir-ubes hesitet^ing as . w e did n o t k n o w what'.ior to b e l i e v e しhem or not；, h o w e r e r 5 r.^G r e t u r n e d to Kampong I'oh and stayed w i t h M r , 3tratfcrcl. ; wno w a s [__manager t h e r e ^ j V e r y l a t e . J .n t^し evening itr« B-iivler —J one s and D r . H o z e n b e r g turned u p 'ho get w h a t Inf ̂ rma 11 on t h e y coiild w i t h the i n t e n t i o n of retur-rLi^-g iiiiuiec'.igtely tiie.y had. any" n e w g e T h e y had b r o u g h t w i t h t h e m a i l the b o o k s ancl fiLLep of the C o m p a n y . As they received no news they remained with us and that made 12 a l t o g e t h e r o name M r , S t r a t f o r d t s co^> w h o v;er st:;. LL w j t h h i m prepared a very good diniior for v.s 'i,h=itnight .vhicb 可e had v/ith the ！ help of a c a n d l e 'Light e (j^xac sf.j.0 n:てgnt we w e ^ s p u t uncltr T h a i guard ； They vmre jaot ci\ r iliant> -irmsc 1 w;' Icag 3word,? or long ： k n i v e s • Our movemant s w e r e rs'jtr ’ o^ed and &丄"L £.lec.i;r:ical a n d water supplies w e r e ciit offTj .4rj.d. a:'.l nighす I.cj.g l o r r i s s c o n t i n u a l l y Fussed by with Thai evacuees from the Betいng border, We spent a c o«(•«• J T t r i ^ I r ' r i l mM M M DM Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. ¥� night and a day here. 9th D e c e m b e r . 1 9 4 1 : A b o u t 9 » 3 〇 — a b a t c h of T h a i p o l i c e came along and took us back to Pinyc^.i We wore put into a bus which had side-screens in order to pravunt us from being seen. We arrived at Pinyok at about 1,30 a and found that several people from surrounding mines iiad v o l i i n t a r o m e to live with the mcmbei of our Company who had stayed behind。 k_ui all we were 27 people and we w e r e forced t o l i v e in tv;o Vunga丄ows，9 in one and 18 in the other .」 111,0th December, 1.̂ 4-1 Several Japanese military buses passed along the road bej.ofr C-.ir B U N G A L C W S E N D WG were made to understand by a Thai Police c^fj.v,3r the" 1 ", we were uLider Thai custody so we wpre advised to reriaiix in doors and fasten all doors and windows. We were all taken lo the Assistant Mansge.r' s b>mgalow early in the morning # \ As soon as we were indoors a Ja-panes plane came scouting over the place ana az abo-it 9 we were diviaed into two groups, some were in th.e k^ tcnen, behind the house, preparing breakfast and the other3 were in ニhe.マ.iving r-oom， All electricity and water supply were cu!: off；； 1ユぃ2巧：ユう.山,'rJy there was a knock on the door and a vole3 said ' ! H^lIo, SullLoi'" IIr e Peters one of oiir p q r t y opened ths door snd we w e r e i.ranfcoiately c o n f r o n t e d by 4 Japanese soldiers^]； Thrse cf them r.ao fixed bayonets and ""The other held 2 pistols. With cur hands held ttp we were ordered outside the bungalov, an-" 1 once outside WG W E R E SGarched, After the I s e a r c h a p i s t o l she：, w a s f i r e d j.i'.t-o てhe air andfj:e w e r e a f t e r w a r d s I marched down to Tongading village still with hanls raised J All along the w a y t h e y •chrea.cened t o sheet us« H o w e v e r , w h e n we arrived at the village we were told to sit in て.he middle of the road with the village mob gazing ac vis 9 One of the Japanese soldiers was about to fasten cia- hano.s together with rope when one of h i s o f f i c e r s told h i m it w a s u n n e c e s s a r y . About half an hour afterwards the rest of our party who were in the kitchen preparing breakfast and whom we thought had been overlooked arrived at tlie viI3.age in a bus. Among then were my parents. They had bsen arrested by two Japanese officers accompanied by Nai Ana a Thai Official of the Thai State Railways. They had been allowed to collect their belongings befc.rs leaving, but had fo•リnd that their suit-cases had been burst open end looted and everything in ccnfusion. After our passports bad beer taken <?.wey from us by a Japanese officer we were put into a bu-^j similar to the other one ！ snd we set of£_ ""under armed Japanese guard and a few t^ses wi~h Japanese troops, Wo stopped for a whl1 e at Tanic012. the Convict Settlement when a f e w T h a i o f f i c i a l s c &me tip w i ド:丄 g l a s s e s of Vva zct » We t h e n j continued our jewでnoy じiirr.il we S T rived at Kerapong Toh vmere we j w e r e told to get off aria w e r e p u t fnlo the ho.ise of M r , Van der i S t r a a t e n " p W e w e r e t h e n -.old by on/; of the i'^par.ese c f f l c c r s that we w e r e 气 0 r e m a i n h e r e for the oar at I o n cf tno v-&r and if a n y of us attempted an escape the whole lot of us would be disposed of. Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. Eutler-Jones Donnelly Francis Bailey Macfarlafte Thomas Eoschke Lamb Rozenberg Mr . De Boer Mr. Peters llr „ Chambers Mr, 015sen Mr. Larsen Mr Magness Mrs, Magness Miss Magness l,trs 4 Jeavons From the surrounding mines wete Stratford Kitts Van der Straaten • Van der Straaten Mr. Cragie Mr. Edmonds ¥ir. Holt Mr. Moore Mr. Cummins Kozenberg (Polish) Clsson (Swedish) Larsen (Norwegian) Lamb (Danish) Roschke (Danish) When they left we expecting that we waited anxiously, for what seemed to be hours- should be killed. But as nothing happened we' litれ December, 194-1: A senior Japanese officer accompanied by his staff and an interpreter visited us. He made a long speech in Japanese which was interpreted to us and concluded it .by saying that all Briti^i ers would be executedj j One of our party, Mr. Holt, took fright and feinted. The Japanese officer t'aen ordered the 5 neutrals who were with us to move into the annex and were not allowed to converse with the rest. They were namely We were allowed to remain only in the sitting-room and for sleepin had mattresses laid on the floor. An oil lamp was all we had for the night, while 2 Japanese guards with fixed bayonets were stationed in the rocm a The Japanese soldiers were unable tc supply us with any food and we also had no water• Fortunately for us Mr. Van der Straaten 1 s cook and bey who were still living at the bungalow, cooked for us whatever bhey could get and Er s Peters wap allowed on two occasions to go to the nearest village under Japanese guard to b - ay us f o o d B u t every time he returned with hardly anything at all the shops had been looted or shut and when he tried to get some from the other Pinyok Mine bungalows he saw the Thai Police helping themselves to drinks and they refused to let him take away anything 5 The Japanese als® made an appeal to the Penal Colony ho supply us with rice, but they replied that they had only sufficient for their own needs. There were 27 of us altogether, Those from Pinyok Mine were:- 4 ! Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Dr Mi • Mr. Mrs Dr. M r . i'lr. Mr. Mr. 中 Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. decided that the interpreter had made a mistake in his interpreta- tion. 12th December. 194-1； We had only one Japanese soldier on guard duty in the room. Ey this time they showed more considera- tion towards us as they realised that we had no intention of attempting an escape, One of the Japanese soldiers trought us some cigarettes and another played ping-pong with one of our men, Mr. Chambers. t ュスth December.1941;J Somewhere about noon the 5 neutrals were taken away and put Tn a similar bungalow almost opposite the one we were in. We did not see them a^ain and according to information received they were last seen on the Betong road pushing a Japanese lorry,, At abov.t 6 p^niv we had our last ration of soup made from the bones of a goose we h&d had the day before and la'c about 7 o'clock we settled down for the night. Suddenly, about one hour later while we were talking our attention was arrested by quick heavy footsteps up the back stairs, and eight Indian soldiers who ware captured by the Japanese were pushed into ths でoo:n。]i We were unable tc converse with them as none of them could"speak English» Hr» CHAMBERS, who understood a little Hindustani tried to get scka inf'crmaticn from them, but all they said was "We British I". We then passed a I'ST very uncomfortsble minutes• None of us 亡sでed move tut we waited and watched for whst was to come next<, Qladdenly one of the Japanese Soldiers threw a hand-grenade which exploded somewhere in the middle of the room where the eight Indian soldiers were huddled together. As a result of the explosion the lamp went out, and some of the Indian soldiers were instantaneously killed or wounded. In the darkness it was difficult to distinguish who had been killed and who injured. Several cf the internees then hastened towards more protected positions while some made for the windows and jumped from a hftight oi、15-18 feet. I was about to do the same but エ felt I ccuic1 NOT move my left leg wiiich gradually began to get nunfo, and with fright I cried "Oh icy leg, my leg'." With great difficulty, however,ェ Eienaged to drag myself to a more protected corner of the room and remained huddled among some of my fellow interness» A .few minutes lster two .rsipaneae soldiers came up again, While one flashed a torch at us the other fired what seemed to be a light automatic- g-un at us „ klv.os t Iirir.ediately after this another Japanese soldier came up and stabbed the people lying on the floor with his bayonet. Fortunately for me I had one or two people on top of me, and that saved me frcm the bayonet. They then took flight in a lorry waiting for them out side. After they had gone I called out to my ij&rsnts. My mother was severely wounded and was unable to move, whjle ray father crawled to^niy aid. Those who were unhurt said they would go and get helpj as tEey felt that the Japanese soldiers did thiti because of 6n'e British advance. Two of them remained behind to help those that were wounded but found it very difficult as there was NO light. One of them I recognised to be Ml. CHA1IBEHS. Then bo ch of them left and I did not see them again. ] I found that I had become very Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. ！ weak from haemorrhage from a bad wound in my left hip which left me unable to walk, Mr» BUTLER-JOKES, who was beside me, had a bullet in his belly and was making the most dreadful noises, He passed away after a few minutes 0 Lirs e JEAVOLiS who was on the ！ other side of me had been killed by the hand-grenade e Mr» THOMAS j was also badly wounded and unable to move at all。^ Ey this time I had become exhausted from loss of blood and the pain j.n my leg was vex-y severe so I was about to dose off when footsteps arrested my attent-ioru A bateh of Thais carrying lanterns and torches cama up, some were dressed in the Thai Police uniforn while ochers were in ordinary civilian clothes but every one of them seemed to be v/eii-armed with either a gun a sword or a knife f As soon as they came into the bungalow they kicked aside ‘he corpses and commenced looting. One of them pulled ny wa fcch off ray wrist. They left v;hen they had completed their looting but one of them stayed behind e He came up to me and felt my pulse and when he found that I was still alive he tried to look for my wounds with the help of a torch. He finelly decided it wasn't safe for me to remain in the bnnga3.ov; for fear the Japanese soldiers might, return, so he offered to help me out. Fortunately enough Mr.. CIiAIGE, who had escaped unhurt . a n d had gone to get help returned at that moment„ ["3o with the help of the Thai I was carried out of the bungs 1 owl^hile ray- mother was carried by Mr. CEAIGE, Ulr. BAILEY and my father followed slowly behind. As far as エ know the only living person left behind in the bungalow was Mfw THOIiiAS who was too badly wounded to be moved• We proceeded to the bungalow on the other side of the roadj almost opposite the "bungalow where the incident 1 ""一. occurredf and remained under the house while deciding our next move» Mr, BAILEY who wore a white shirt took it off in case he might be seen. Ilr 6 CKAIGE left us fcr what reason I don't know snd we did NOT see him again. After some time the Thai decided to remove us to his house» But as both my father snd Mr. BAILEY were unable to help my mother along as they were 'ooth by this time very weak, the Thai decided to take me al:mg first and then come back for the others. So after a very trying effort I got cn his back and we had scarcely gone a few yards when we saw a gで：)up of men approaching us e He helped me down into a dicch "by the road- side whiie he stood to wait till they passed c Fortunately they were Thai civilians 0 They were very sympathetic： waen they heard that I was badly wounded and offered to help protect me, £"iis daylight was approaching and my rescuer could go no f-.irther we got into the first hut we came by which wasn卜じ far from the bojigalow where I left my father and mother.エ begged him to fetch my parents, but he said it was too late as he had to go and get rid of his clothes as they were all covered with blood from ray wcunds. So all went except one who appeared to be very dangerous« Shortly after dawn ェ heard some men talking Thai pass ir.y hax; and going in the direction of the bungalows« エ did NOT see them but a few minutes afterwards I heard a shot fired and also a loud cry of a man in pain. I remembered then that Mr. THOMAS Evidentiary Document No, 5156. Page was still alive when we left him and recognised the cry as being his and NO doubt caused by the bullet that was fired at hlm. After an interval of a^out seven minutes エ heard another tv/o shots fired シ and judging from i:iie ion of the sound I knsw Ji_to be at my paren^o , i Never the lei s there was nothing エ co-old do so I just waited wi'r.ti fear。 The Thsi who was with me ran away with fright. I could NOT conceal myself as I coul.dn 1 1 move 5 and felt that my end was soon to come j Then I heard those Thai voices onco again, cccring from the direction of the bmigalows, and becoming louder and Icuaer 'until event.にally they came into my hut. I was shocked to see that they were Thai Policemen, They questioned me in Thai, but I did NOT widerstand t h e m ,エ just wept and pleaded for help u The one of them, who wqs rather small in statire and who was called Hai CHUN, came up and spoke tc me in M L AY which language I knew fairly well and エ l i e d to him that エ was a Thai. He then said thai", he had formerly been a clerk in the Amphur's office at BETOKG, and would do all he could to help me. Meanwhile one of them brought a stretcher and very carefully carried me and laid me on it c Prrt of the Irut was pulled down to get my strode her out A party of six Thai civilians carried my stretcher while the Thai Policemen guarded ell round and whielded me frois the si:n, They walked about helf a mile before they reached their quarters f As soon as we arrived they took me into their hut, placed me on a bed which had two mattresses and immediately connnenced attending to my wounds• Two policemen held rnc down and another washed my wounds with warm water and cotton swabs. I had four wounds all on the left leg. Soon after the dressing was finished ェ saw Mr, Llac far lane in the custody of a Thai Policeman pass the door of the hut where I was lying„ A few minutes afterwards a Police Captain named Khun Somii'ik arrived with a Thai dresser who went under the name of "Dr" SAT^AT. He (the dresser) rewashed my wounds and d:?ew out two pieces of shrapnel from the wound below the left hip B Whilst attending to py wounds he told me that it was he who had rescued mc from the 'bungalow, Khun S O M U K then arranged to have me removed to TAKICOM, liie penal colony. He spoke excellent English and assured me that every precaution would be taken for my safety. I spent two days with the Police, during which time I was very carefully looked after • ェ had my' meals twic-e a day which consisted of fried chicken end rice, e.r.d ray dr inking water was always boiled first. I had I\iO clothes except what I had on. The lower part of my frock was torn off as it was all smeared with blood and I was given an old blanket to cover myself with. During these tv/o days I did NOT sleep a wink as the pain in my leg was too severe. l6th December ? 1943^: Somewhere about 3 p cm, I was removed, from the Police hut, I was carried on a stretcher and covered with blankets from head to toe as there were many Japanese soldier Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. near by and they were afraid of my being seen. My stretcher was then put on a lorry and surrounded by several Thai civilians and about half a dozen Police. At about 5 we arrived at T A N I C O M and I was taken to the house of Nai Pasede PIEW. A woman who lived with him and whom I "understood as his servrnt nursed me and was very kind to me 0 I also had regular visits from "DR M S A N M T ,who dressed ray wounds„rwioe a day, and also gave me two anti- tetanus injections-, i For months エ was unable to walk and for one month I had to lie in the same position (on my right side). ！ After monxhs I was able to walk with the help of a walking - ！ stick. My left hip v/a ̂ tilted very badly and I could NOT put my [_left heel on the groiond\ Euring my stay here, which was three ' months J I was ireq-uently visited by che Amph-ji of the district and several Thai Police officials，two of vv'hom took a report of my experiences. Major KEED ? head' of the |olice at SETANG, YALA, visited me once, 18th March. 1942 a Under Police guard I was taken down to SETANG, YALA, in a bus and was put in the care of a Police Captain. Both the Captein and his wife v/ere very kind to me and gave me the very best attention, When I arrived here I was pleased to see Messrs. BAILEY, MACFAKLAKE, JIBE, EDMOKDS and DAWSON, four of whom I knew. 30th March, 194-2; The seven of us left S E T驅 for BANEKOK under Thai Police guard with Major KEED snd his wife, the Governor of YALA and his wife, the Governor of PATTANI, a dresser to attend to the wounds of the wounded men. We had one of the 3rd. class carriages to ourselves with Police on guard at either end. We travelled by day and put up at rest houses during the night. On three occasions, however, Japanese soldiers tried to take us away, but Major KEED was very firm and produced a special Japanese passport and they left us alone. The journey was very tedious and took five days- Ac about 10.30 p.m. on April 3rd we arrived in BANEKOK. On arriving the Governor of YALA very kindly donated Ticals 3〇/- to be divided among the six m.en, while his wife made me a present of Ticals 10/-. We were put into a military bus and br ought to the internment c s m p .エ had with ire a small suitcase of clothes given me by two Thai officials• I was only able to walk with the help of a walking-stick. 4th April, 1942： I was taken to the CHULALOI^GKOLN Memorial Hosp- ital and was examined by Dr. SAMAK and had an X-F.ay photo taken. I then returned to camp to await results. It happened to be an impacted fracture, and I was told to go to Hospital for further treatment. Evidentiary Document No. 5156. Page ユ. I stayed in Hospital for seven weeks and had very good attention from the Doctor, Matron and Nurses.丄 was able to rid myself of the walking stick, though エ still have.a very pronounced limp, and have to go to hospital now end again for further treatment. 23rd. July, 1942 (Signed) Maureen J. MAGNESS Evidentiary Docunent 於 5394« SUIIaxHI CF EXAMm^?IQI 了 OF ILALU a nilk merchant of Ri狐！]NG, SI/丄I’ on I抑ch, KiJJJ RAII, having been duly aff iroed, states ：- I, ICVLU R/！“ an 56 years of age and a British subject; I keep coms in a m 了 a n d sell the ill“ On 31st July I was selling inilk in the bazaar in RJ仏！]NG. The previous day I had seen an M.r. and a jap soldier arrest HJSa OSI•遍• an Indian cf RJ^'JJNG, The saiie two arrested rie at 0700 hours on that ODrninc. I was taken to U.T. Headquarters and ny hands v;ere tied behind ay back. I saw IJJSA there in tho same state. I ras there for about one hour, during which the sianese police tried to have oe released• ^hey vere also locked up # ) The previous day tfiore had been a riot in RuNi腿G, and three japs had been killed. I think that v;as v;hy tho si如ese uere imprisoned^ They xjgtg there when I left. Frcn there ue \:ere taken to P A m i : to wait for a boat, and after one hour, one carjc and took us to ICiWAJIt^here \ie remined for two days, after v;hich we vrere tcken tc CIIOT.ffOKT by lorry• There f we got our first food since ry capture• For tho next ten days 1 was beaten \7ltli a bi^ stick, while 二iy hands and feet were tiod f しr_d told tc speak the truth # ェ do not know what they wonted ne to speak the truth about 9 as they asked ne no quest ions • During this tine I was given a s m l l ball of rice and a stick of rau cucumber daily fcr fooc"U On the eleventh day ? water TOS forced into ny stcmch ? and T7hen ny stomch vas full, ti.e japs junped on it and I becciae uncon- scious, ェ was brou/ ht roimd by two jap soldiers who threw cold water over rae. For the next two days I was suspended fron a bean by the urista f ^itli uy toes barely touching the ground # There was a rtre tied to iqy wrists and a claig) fastened tc rjy T/aist^ Electricity v;as passed through these ivires and Liy arius and body wore burned 0 The pain m d e ne cry out continually, and there seened to be hocks plucking at î y whole body # After tv;o days of almost continual current beine passed throuGh ne f during v/hich tixie ェ uas only ^'iven small quantities of hot v/ater tc drink,ェ became unconscious # Evidentiary Dccuir^nt トto. 5275• ̂ Before this f the japs acoused me of being a British spy r and of photcyrapliintj aeroplanes, and sending riessa^es to LOIIDCN， As I cannot even urite riy nane, I tried to point out that this charge v/as ridiculous， did not stop the current• エ becane ccnacious in the cell in the Kenpei 抑、 r a c k s , and coiy^ not eat for eijit days, J During this tine, the Japanese tcld ne that rRITl.II CIMID, ABDUL EAKL'J? TJKl^ and HOY had told than that ェ v;as a British spy« 1 realised then that they had done so, as they had recently token 7H,- ticals fron ne for the I V I C L^ $ and uhen ェ co^plciiied to the si^i^se police, they were arrested for extort5,on, They vjere bailee out by BAIISKES SII现，the localエエL.leader, and then they took their revenge on no by informn^; the Taps that j was a spy a I later saw these three nen in the custody of the Japanese at KAHAJTt whence 1 was taken fron CIira.5rORN# I was in KIMIJI for three rx)nths. During this tine, I sau MJSA I.IEI.ION? T7hc i;as arrested the day before ne f beinc given the rrator torture by the sai:ie K^T. f s who tortured ue. The it g ‘s were stixl trying to m k e no confess that ェ was a British spy» After I arrived at ICX-iCIH fron CHUirOHN, ̂ y OTists and legs v/ere charred to the bene fron tlie resul bs of the electric tortures, and just as they ^ere healing 0 the n 0 j'‘s used to stick bjrr.inc cigarettes into the sores 0 in the end they tied sone thin fishis line on tc î y testicles, r/ith such a knot that the bLo'.-d was cub off fron those organs, The other end of the fis'ting line ras tied to the uall e j uas nade to lie down* and the line was tichvened 0 Then a rope was put arouud ay neck and it was pulled t: Jit to the opposite T;o11 0 I vras in coiieiderable pain t Then the •loaded a rifle and threatoned to shoot ne if ェ did not tell tlien V7here the Vwireloss set was hide)en 0 ェ inplored then to Kill ue, G3 ェ knew nothing and wouJ-d only be subjected to nore torture if 1 liでed« I was then released and brought towards the gaol, I asked to be allowed to go to the H and was led tov;ards the place, through the bathroon^ on the floor of the barliroon 1 saw the body of WSA, He TOS definitely dead f endhis body was :ic±eC. and covored with After ェ was released«； the Chinese cook for the 1ふ！>• told ne ‘ that he had burned the body cil, the sane niqit v \ rhen I can© back, tLe M，r_ struck both itself and xhe escort 0 Ho tclT me ェ should not have seen l:3DSA ? s bcdy t and that if 2 ever spoke about it, he would cut rie in s m l l piocGG# Evidentiary Document 林 5394 3 . After three rionthc^ I was sent along ith DIIAN ROY, PITIIMI CHAKD, DEVI DAS, SOHAL TJJIA SllMi & Vl^Jl^ to CUJlTOm>U There I net HAI: NARAIN who was in qexoI for stealig Japanese stores® While I was there 9 / the Japanese conti.riued tc beat ne Q I was there for about seven months Q Gnce, a tall M«P # with a lot of go].d teeth put a red-hot wire up the centre of ny penis« I was beaten alriost daily, and in the end could not even wa31c r J DEVT DAS ^nd SOKAL DAS were released after sone tine, and a m n t h after^fcherij,エ ras releasedP The tv/o ii # r 1 s who gave the orders to torture ne, and who oane from tine to tine to question buセ did not actually torture ne were： Capt # MORI, who was 0/C ICe^eij 2/Lt, K^UIGAIA TVJ)ASHI_ The jap who tied r.iy testicles with fisliiDg line and who beat ne was；叇，I、MCAN0 YATST.UCA. Tho jap who applied the clctricity in CHEJMTOHT was； IUASA YOSHII江CHI, All the above エ recognise frcni photo^jraphs attached• (Thumbprints) Certified that the above are the riしht and left thunbprints of the witness. (Signed) interpreter； I certify that I duly translated the above suixxtry to the witness in his crai lonsuege 5 prior to his sigr.atnire which appears above® (Siyiea) SuTorn before ne this 29th day cf I.^rch 1946. Detailed to ex'oirae the above by the coranander-in-chief 5 Allied jjmd Forces, s。uth Bast (Authority； AUSS/i. T7ar Crines instruction No® 1,para # 7) Checked with oricinal and certified to be a true copy thereof• (Signed) Lt^ Col.
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