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rj , Doc. Jo. 5733 Page 1 C A I J I I A T I T P 6 v// (/C Appeared "before me Lt. Zol. Dr. B„ Damen in Changi Jail, Singapore this 39til day of May 1946, the person of YAiiAIIOTO MoicM-rc Tfho after having taken the oath to tell the entire truth and nothing "but th!- truth, ciliS WPI* 0 0. to the Questions -out to him as follow: Q,. State your name, "birth, education and career. A. I was "born from an humble peasant family, living in the village of Ito near Osaka in Prefecture of Wakajama on the island of Konchu on the 8th of October 1S98. My religion is Buddhism and I am a Major General of the Imperial Japanese Army, "tfhen I was eight years old, I went to the elementary school in my village Ito and there I stayed till my 14-th year7] Then I went to the middle school in the Prefecture of ITars. and after having completed my 13th year I "became a Cadet of the Military Training School in Eyoto where I wi..s attached as a Cadet to a Regiment "being garrisoned there. I w s in training here for a year in order to become nr. Officer and was enlisted in the Military Academy in December 1915. In December 1915 I had finished ny Military studies and got an appointment as a 2nd Lieutenant of the 38th Infantry Regiment, in garrison at ICyoto. I served in this Regiment till I was placed in 1923 in the Staff College at Tokyo. I left this school in Fovembor 1926 as a 1st Lieutenant. Then I was ordered to be an acting Commanding Officer of a Company. In this quality I served for 6 years. In 192s? I was transferred as a member of Staff in the Ministry of War. The Section Chief of the Depart- ment for Preparations was the then Colonel TOJO Eideki, and I was under his command for 1 year. He was a man who was not oxactly harsh, but also not so mild, he was an ardent man who was very able and tactful to realise the plans he was bearing in mind in a proper way. I di<? not perceive any sign then of his political aspirations as he was always busy with his military profession?! work. In August IS26 I was promoted to be a Captain and remained in my now rank in tile aforesaid Department of Preparations till October 1930. Then I was order 5. to sail for Great—Britain in order to comolcte my military education thcr- . I arrived in England in Jebruary 1931 and I was attached to sov ral various Regiments. I was in England for 2 years. This is the reason I can understand the English language rather sufficiently. I do not speak it in a good way. Other languages beside my own Japanese language I do not understand, iJow this is more than 10 years &£o and I cannot say that I master the Sirlish language in a sufficient way now. In "arch 1533 I was ordered to be a Member of the Japanese Delegation for the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. I was a Member of Staff under the command of Admiral SASSGA'tfA. I had several chiefs there, but Admiral FiSSGA'JA was always in command. The Leader of our Delegation was SATO, then Ambassador of Jafcan in Paris. 1 was standing under direct command of Col. SHIMOMURA who was a member of the Committee of Effectives. I did not take any part in the negotiations and the talks as such things were done by my Superiors. Q,. Do you know anything about the famous Crucifixion Speech delivered by I-3ATST0XA? A. Yes, I know that he has made this speoch before I had arrived in Geneva. I saw him several times in the League of i'rtions. Q,. You remember that in 1931 the Japanese Armies overran and seized Manchuria' 'That was the general feeling in your circles there about this matter? A. "*e had the conviction that Japan had beer compelled to do so in order to get some more living spa.ee, that this step had been taken, because it was necessary and we always hoped that a satisfactory settlement of this affair should be reached. Tv*o had many talks about it and we agreed all in this point that Japan mur.t act in this way and that everything should be tried to get out of this impasse. I stayed in Geneva till November 1933 and returned to Japan via America and I arrived in Japan in February 1934, when I was placed again in my former job in the Department of Preparations. Doc. to. 5733 Page 2 CJ. What was tho scope of this Department and what was its significance? What did you do there esr.ctl̂ ? 'v. ic you making there some campaign schemes or other war plane? A. To, that vc did not do. Tho real job wo performed wjs the preparation of armament, fouraging of thu Army end that always in connexion with p. possible mobilisation. Q,. W^s this a prep? ration for the forthcoming campaign in China? A. I did not know thai. The only thing I knew was that the Staff Officers formed the plar..3 and we the younger ones had to oboy their orders. Q. Do you know the famous Captain D0IEA3A who was working in China before the war started? A. Yes, I know hiJi by face only. Whan. I returned from England he wr.s a Major General already. He wes a grand man. I never had a talk with him. Q,. Do you know anything about the Doihara-incid snt in China? A. I do not know. Q. When did they make you a Major? A. I became a Major in 1934 and remained in my old job at the Department of Preparations. In August 1935 I was transferred to the fcecretariet of the Ministry of War. In December 1937 I got the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In August 1938 I was transferred to the Bureau for Military Affairs in Tokyo. In 1939 I became a Colonel and received the command of' the %8th Infantry Regiment in jagoya. I went then to China and acted there in Canton and Sam-Sui as commander of Occupation troops. I did not take any part in the real warfare. In October 1940 I wqs appointed to be a Staff Officer attached to the Forth-China Commander at Peiping. There I was partaking in the actual war operations. . Had you to do also with the civilian population"? A. -~o, EV work was merely of a military nature. In March 1942 I returned from China on my way to Tokyo where I was Section chief of the Military Bureau for Training and Education. In August 1945 I became a Major General. In this year, in the month of March, I wa.R sent to JaT'a a.s Lt-adbr of the Civil Affairs of the Military Administration at Ba-'-&v\a. (Oranjeboulevard in the house of a former Dutch Medical Officer). I was actire in this quality till 1'ovember 1944 when I became Chief of Staff of the Army end as such I was the Gunaeikan, the Governor-General of Java, residing in Batavia. The Army Commander was then Lt. Gen. HASADA. I do not know where he is at the present. } Q. Who was the man who appointed you to be the Governor-General? A. I was appointed by an Imperial Decree and such was told me by the Minister of "%r T0J0 ac far as I can remember. I do rot know it for certain. I resided in the houae of ISHI2AWA at 3ata<<ia. General HAEA3A was residing in the palace of the Dutch Governor General, Xomngsplein. Q. How was the command instituted? A. The Supreme Commander of the Southern Areas was count Field-marshal TBRAUCEI, who was residing in Saison. General ITAGAZI Commander in Chief of the 7th Area of Command was functioning in Singapore. Till June 1545 Java was divided in two parts: Bast and West Java- The J:xmy Commander of Bast-Java was General IWABE. The Commander of West-Java was General MOBUCHI who was under direct command of HAEADA. Then in June 1945 Middle-Java was created and the Army Commander was General lidZAMDILA, headquarters at Magrland. ^fter the Japanese Surrend.-r West-Jpva was divided in W o pejts: The Cheribon, Priangan areas with General IA30UCHI as Commander and the 3atavia, Buitenzorg and Bantam areas under General EISHIDA. Doc. No. 5733 Page 3 Q- When you were functioning as Governor-Gtneral, did you carry out tve orders given to yor: by TTAEABA or did vou vSve a free v?nd? A. Tre general leading rules were laid do-n in regulations and so I %ad to o>ey. But in smaller letters I had a complete free vsnd and I could act on my own authority. On env important ma tit or s not specified in the rules and regulations I always obtained tve Army Oomnander's sanction. The important political lines were totally prescribed by TILAUCT'I. I was responsible to Gen, FALADA, w1"c could rake a proposal to Tokyo for my dismissal. Fe also was able to suspend me temporarily. I could only be disi issed by the Tenno "Peika, wvo >ad appointed me* When in March 194-5 V-e Lines of communication with Tokyo were cut off aiid it was very difficult to get into touch with Tokyo, it was agreed that Gen. FARADA should be empowered to dismiss on his own authority practically all officials serving under vim, I do not know if tvis measure was issued bv the Emperor. I believe tvet tr<is had been ordered by Geh= ITAGAKI w':o issued always all important decisions„ Exceptions were to be referred to TERAUC*TI and/or ITAGAKI. f Q. Fad you any responsibility in matter of death sentences or did you act witv absolute freedor ? A. I had nothing to ao witv death sentences g.iven by Courts martial. Tve deat1- sentences given by a Civil Court were to be carried out according to the rules laid down by tve Army Commander. These sentences had to be examined by tve Cvief of Preservation of Peace and Order, who was working under me and so normally I did not receive these sentences for examination. 0. Were you empowered to stop an execution? A. I think I was, but I never received a petition for mercy from Europeans, and tvis is the reason I do not know it for certain. Q. After the Japanese surrender you sent a letter to Rear- Admiral Patterson aboard of the Cruiser Cumberland, admitting that you had given your "fiat execution" for tT-e killing of a number of Date1 subjects /and such after tve surrender, /at Soerabaia. A. Yes, but I did not write tvat letter myself, it was written by one of my subordinate officers, I have signed it. In fact the Cvief of tve Preservation of Peace and Order gave tvis "fiat" for tve execution concerning a number of people in East Java, whose execution, wven I re: ember exactly, had been delayed. They had been sentenced by a Civil Court in January 1945° C. So you were Lord of life and death in Java? A. I cannot say tvat® q. Do you admit tuat you are responsible for all executions carried'out during your Governor-Generalship? A. Yes, I do. As Gunseikan I was responsible for all t" ese executions not only for my own doings, but also for the activities of the Chief of the preservation of Peace and Order, when I was a-are of that. In so far I was responsible. If executions of deatv sentences were carried out without my knowledge tven I do not vold myself responsible. 0. Do you admit now your resnonsiMlity for your subordinates because you were their controlling cvief? jv.c. No-. 5733 t- ge A. Yes, I do now. I coi Id stop an execution and I .va.s empowered also to comutate a sentence. All was done -under t1 e A m y Commander1 s sanction end in M s name I think, T-e legal rule was tvis tvat every death sentence when a petition for rercy vad been sent in must "be examined by f'c Chief of Preservation of Peace and order. That was a civilian I..IYANO Svozo, now in GO.mg, Q. Can you remember wvat tvese people were charged with? A. I do not remember exactly and tve only thing I can mention in connection with this case is tvat I think that the proposed execution has not been carried out. ̂ C. When you came to Java you were provided with spccial instructions concerning the government? A._ I had not received special instructions from Minister TOJO Fideki. I had no personal interview with him before I left for Java, I was instructed to obey and to carry out the orders of General FAHADA wvo vad outlined the principal rules of Government. I was responsible to him for the carrying out and realization of these rules. practical application was for me and for that I hrd a free hand. Q. Were you especially instructed to promote the Indonesian Independence hover cnt? A. As far as I know, FAPADA did not stimulate the Indonesian Independence l.ovement, leaded by SOIICAhNO. I do not know of any especial anti-Dutch measure taken by him or me. We had in mind to treat the population of Java as one body, although it consisted of various elements like Arabs, Javanese, Chinese and Dutch indo and totok. It was a very complicated problem. Q. YJas it your purpose to make Java. a. free selfsupporting country or a slave colony for Japan with no hope of freedom? A. We had tve outlined plan to liberate the Asiatic peoples from Western oppression and to bring t>cm to freedom under the Japanese leadership. Japan was destined to play tve leading role. In 1944 Sept. 19 Minister General KOISFA made a statement in Tokyo saying that no sharp measures were to be taken against tve populations of the occupied areas. Nippon intended to give independence to Indonesia in future. Q,. And how did you do in Java, especially against the Dutch? Do you remember the internee camps'. t>'e POW car.ps, tve expropriations of Dutch property, {he confiscations and-so on. Can you. fit this in with a policy of rpper.scr.ent? A. Any confiscation of Dutch property tuat right have happened, was done prior to this declaration of EOISFA. e. Who was responsible for tvc looting of Java, for the shipping to Japan of products, industrial outillagc and all things that could be of any use to Japan? A. I do not know that sue1-- tl'ings have '-appened and I do not know wvo should be responsible for that. It happened perhaps especially in tve former days of the occupation of Java/ I know also the slogans Asia, for the Asiatics. I am fully aware of the Nanyo idea and I know that the principal plan was that Japan should lead Asia giving freedom to all populations- C, What was tv. role nlaycd by SOUCARNO? A. SOEKAHNO was used by us and paid by us f. 750 (seven hundred fifty guilders) per mont1" for his activities as an adviser to tve General Advice Department in Batavia. . NO. 5733 C„. Vfcs he a puppet or r real frccspcrking Javanese leadcr*'- A. SOJ:KARNO had little influence, because he was under a strict censorship of which he had cor plained several times in r bitter wry. All his speeches wore examined before and he did not like this. Wc kept him under control but as time went on, the ccnsorsvip slackened and about the Japanese surrender there ^ s no more censorship at all. SOEKARNO had no political power at all. Fe was allowed to deliver speeches and to hold m etings wit1- his fellow-countrymen, but he had no power to issue rules and to take measures-. Fe felt his uneasy position very clearly and complained about that. But wc did not give in, although censorship was softened. Q. Did you know, ~s we know all that SOl.IvARNO abused and assaulted tve Lutcv and uttered threats against us by radio and press? A. That must h-vc happened in the last d~ys of tve censorship when we did not keep an eye on all these things in a. sharp way. Q. Do you know tvnt SOEKARNO paid a visit to General ITAGAKI at Singapore accompanied by FATTA and RADJIUAN? A. Yes, I know tvrt t>ese three men were ordered by Count TERAUCFI to be transferred to his ^ • at Saigon for a conference. They left for Saigon b plan^ on 9 August 1945. They returned to Java on August 14. I presume that they paid this visit to General ITAGAKI returning from Saigon. C. Do you knot/ the proceedings during tve conference with TLBAUCFI? A. Yes, I know. On tue 15th of August I heard by radio tvat J?p*n had surrendered to tve. conditions of Potsdam. Vie kept it secret in behalf of law and order. In the night between 16 and 17 August SOEKARKO and FATTA had a conference with A d m i r a l LAEDA as I heard afterwards. In the morning of 17 August they set up and proclaimed their Republic., Tve proclamation was done by pamphlets distributed to the people from lorries. This proceeded in such a. quick way tva.t we were unable to prevent it. I , heard that "TERAUC^I granted them the following things'. 1. They were permitted to form an Independent St~te -nd to set up tve Government of it as soon as preparations should have been accomplished. 2. The territory of this State should include the former Dutch East Indies. Y/e kept tve surrender secret till f~e morning of August 1 9 t h . Then I, not ordered b-- any Superior, ordered SOEKARKO and TTATTA, Chaiman and Vice-Chairman of tvc Indonesian Preparation Committee, to see me and between 9 ~nd 10 o'clock* I told tvem the following points: 1. Japan has surrendered to tve Potsdam conditions. 2. The Japanese authorities remain in command in Indonesia, .till tvey can hand over the powers and all weapons to the Allies. 3. Severe punishment for all persons wvo should attempt to disturb law and order. 4. Fror: now tve Japanese do not back any longer t^c Indonesian Independence Lovercnt. 5. The Indonesian Leaders arc requested to vclp in keeping quiet tvc popî .lation because we were afraid of losses of innocent lives. One of V-c reasons of the Emperor's surrender was t* save mankind fror tve h?y0cs of atomic bombing. Doc. No. 5733 Page 6 Q. Who wa.s responsible for the extradition of Japanese armament? A. I tvink tve Indonesians themselves, because f ey took t^em by force. T>e J-panese stored away all heavy armament in order to hand it over to the Allies and their troops were armed wit1- lifles only* So they could not prevent V ^ Indonesians from capturing tve arms0 0. Was t'-e capturing of the arms ordered or permitted by TLEAUC^I on that conference? A. I do not know tvat„ T>-e interrogation was rc.sur.md on tvis 30tv day of Nrrc1 1946 by the same interrogator Lt. Col, Dr0 B. D^nen. r, Fow was f e £.osrushr. organization working? A. The deportation of labourers outside of Java was aiways ordered by the Commander in C- ief of f-e 7tv Area of Command General ITAGAKI, residing in Singapore, I had nothing to do with that. But inside of Jav~ the situation was another one. According to tve needs of industry, irrigation, etc., the Japanese Government vrd started before my arrival ** service known ~s the Romusvas (ronu-labour "nd sv" man). Tvis organization was working already when I entered Java, altvough on a scalier sc^le. I was the Chief of it ^nd under urn was working the Romu Kyoku in Focm Affairs at Eatavia with TAI<AFASrI, a civilian official, as leader, is in Galang now. In my nam.. he issued orders to obtain a sufficient nur ber of labourers for tve purposes mentioned. This labour was voluntary *nd was pa id • TAE/.FAS^I gave his orders to th civilian authorities who gave tvcm through to the V/edanas and loera>s and tvey were obliged to collect as much manpower as was requested for certain industries. Work was done in factories, on r^ilw^ys, textiles, etc. Q. Was f-is a labour to be performed by all classes *nd races of t"-e population? A. Everybody could get work, it was no forced labour. They were rlso working on defence works for f e Japanese ^rmy. But the syster did not operate in a satisfactory way because the number of labourers was not sufficient "nd especially during tve last months before our surrender tvings became rather confused ~nd labourers were no longer engaged. I persist in asserting, tvat t'is labour was voluntary. The population was kindly asked to plant djarak keliki everywhere along tve ro^ds in order to get greasing oil for our planes. This planting was paid nlso, All orders issued by me were pointing out that tKis labour was a free one. There existed also a Labour Association wvich paid fees for excellent work. Q. But we know t'-at tve population was forced to work and so I doubt if V i s labour was free indeedc . A. My orders were regarding a free labour, but I do not know if rnd it can h P Ve hrppCned tr-at my subordinates exceeded their faculties, but I do not know that. f. Were you cor.te.nt of that Romusvas organization? A. No. I tr"inl" that better work should have been done. There were two things annoying me: 1. The labourers were svort of food, clotving and housing- was insufficient. 2. The special abilities of the labourers for certain jobs were not enough scrutinized. Doc. No. 5733 Page 7 So I ordered improvements of food, clot'ing and vousing. After r.ll I emtiot s-j tvat tve Ronusba.s rffrir urs satis- factory. I report tlrt I bad issued orders for good treat- ment m d therefore I inspected several times factories rnd shipyards in order to sec tve situation with my own eyes.J 0. Did tve Kcmpcitri interfere witb tve Romushas? A. Not t^t I know. Q. Had you any connection with tve Kempeitri? A. No I did not. Tve Kapeitai was r Unit, standing apart fror. tve «rr.y rnd tl'e Civilian Government. Tve Army cor render General FARADA wa s tve Comrander of tve Kempeitri, like he was tvc Commander of tve Civilian Government. by Bureau was not working with tve Kerpeitai rnd we could not issue orders to ere'- ot^er. Tve Commander General FAIAD/, left all the managing of t1 e Kempeitri to tuc leader General NISFIDA wv o was responsible to Vim. General FARABA could correct the Kempeitri and ve could intervene wven be wished to do so. Tvis General NISrIDA is tve same man I mentioned as Commmder of tve- Batavia , Buitenzorg and Bantam Areas. Fe was ~ fine soldier rnd Ve is no harsh or cruel man. Q. Di you ever ve^r of any atrocities, committed by tve Kenpeitai? A. No, £ir never. Q. Tve w'-ole world knows tvat tve Kempeitri vas committed a mass of tortures, ill treatments etc. Did tvey keep tvis secret from you tven? A. I did not ^ear of any atrocities committed by tbe Kempeitri in Java. I do not think tbat tbey kept tvis secret from me. . Be reasonable and you will admit t^at tve population of Java has suffered incredibly from tbe >a.nds of tbe Kempeitri. Of course you know tbat. A. Yes, Sir, I understand it now. I beard of it afterwards. r. YJven Japan h~d surrendered, were tvo armament stores well guarded? A. Tbey were guarded, but tbe Indonesians stole tvc weapons in East and Middle Jrva• In West J^vr I did not vear of sucb a tbing. Q. Do you know about tbe s-botage by Japanese personnel near Ler brng, wbere a store was blown up and r kampong was destroyed? A. I beard of tvat, but t^en I was in Brtrvia rnd tvis store was a Navy store, so I bad nothing to do witb itc I tbink tvat tbe Navy personnel were guarding tve store. ^ Tbe above statement 'ts been rere1 over to me by an interpreter and is a true m d correct trmscript of wvat I h-nvc s"id, to tn-e w^ole of wvicb statement I no" append my signature. Signed at Cvangi Jail this first day of June 1946. Signature /s/ (N-me in Bloel: Capitals) Yrmamoto loichiro Sv/orn before me It. Col. Dr. B. D^men Signrturc /s/ B. DT. n R^nk Lt. Col. description R.N. 1.7*. tvis first dry of June 1946"^ Doc. No. 5733 Prge 8 An officer detailed to <_; amine t1 e above bjr the Comma nder-in-C'-icf, allied L-nd Forces, South last Asia G.uthy ALFSiA Var Critics Instruction No. 1 2nd Edition, pr.rr 19 C O Ccrtif icf_tc of_ Interpreter I Kin IIsun make oath rnd say tVt I truly and correctly translated to tvx witness Yamamoto_I oic^iro the words of tve above crution and tvat he thereupon'elected to rrl-c a sworn str.ter ent, tvat he was duly sworn, rnd tvrt he t^en madu r. statement wvich I truly rnd correctly tr-nslrtcd in English and saw tf-ken do^n by Liss £, II. Scvwab I read over the wvole of tve ^bove strtcment to tve~ witness in the Japanese language and he acknowledged it as correct rnd has now duly signed it in my presence and in the presence of L_t_._Col_._ Lr_._ E._ J)f men 0 /s/ Kim IIsu Doc. No. 5724 ragC 1 c i u i F i c a i The undersigned CF'AELLS JONGENL EL5 first Lieutenant h.N.I.Ae, head of the War Crines Section of NITFEELANDS FOECES INTLLLIGiNCI SIEVICE (NIFIS) being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that tve annexed document, entitled: "Statement of Dr. Cv,0o van der Plas, Batavia, Political Adviser to the Netherlands Indies Government, dated 22 June 1 9 4 6 % has been taken from the official records of the NIFIS. /s/ Charles Jongeneel SEAL JTHK 25tht 1 9 4 6 Subscribed and sworn to before m.e K» A. deWISED, LL.B. First Lieutenant £..NcI„A„, Senior official attached to the Office of the Attorney-General N.I.I, /s/ K. A. de Y/eerd Doc. No„ 5734 PP.go 2 [ _t_ _a_ t__e,_m c_ n t of Dr. C1". 0. vrn cier PLAS, Batavia , political adviser to t̂ e, Netherlands Indies Government0 Duly sworn5 Dr. C"h„0. v-̂ n der PLAS states: \I -am 55 years c age, of Netherlands nationality. My permanent home is Bat-via, where I am living at present. On Scptcrber 15, 1945, I arrived on the British cruiser "Cunbeil^nd" at Batavia, in my function of representativc of the Netherlands Indies Government with CcS.5 Rear admiral Patterson, on wv ich day Major General YAMALOTO care- on board as Cvief of General Staff, in order to receive instructions concerning tve Japanese preparations for internment as prisoners of war, A few days later, the Red Cross, I think it was the British Red Cross at KANDY, requested. British Rear Admiral PATTERSON, Chief Allied Officer in Command, to inquire into the execution at SOUPAR.YA, after Japan's capitulation on August 15th, of a number of Dutc1- and Chinese for political activities against tve Japanese. On a date between September 23 ~nd 26 a letter was received from General YAM/I 0T0 in reply to the British request for information, in which, while enclosing a list of'names, he admitted the. fact of the execution, and stated to have granted fiat (order) for the execution on a date between /ugust 22 and 25, wvich letter and list were shown to me and were re'd by me. I h~ve been informed, before September 27th, tv"t General YA1.A1 0T0 had. claimed back his letter in order to make a few changes in same 5 I have not seen the new letter from General YALV.I 0T0, but heard from Admiral PATTERSON'S secretary that only slight ralterations were made in the list of names; T M s communication was made to me on one of tve last days of September, in any case before October 4tv^ I remember that the list of names contained for the major part Dutch names r minority of Chinese names -nd that on the first list one person appeared w>osc offence, had not been political action, but a n ordinary offence, namely rape and manslaughter. TVis was a Chinesc* The number of people executed I do not remember with positiveness, but I seer, to remer ber tvere were 19* j Doc. No. 5734 page 3 I presume tvat t*e Red Cress will h~ve r.ore dc-trils and tvat British Fead Quarters positively must have then 3 as the relative documents went over to AFNEI. i tirade out according to tve full and complete truth, at Batavia, June 22nd. 1946, : /s/ van dtr Plas \L- Sworn ane subscribed before ne, K. A. de Weerd, 1st Lieutenant K.N.I.A,j Senior official attached to the Office of the Attorney General, N.E.I. /s/ K. A. de Weerd ? Doc. No. 5756 ' Page C E R T I J I C A T E The undersigned CHARLES JONGEKSEL, first Lieutenant R.N.I.A., head of the 'Jar Crimes Section of NETHERLANDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NEFIS), being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the annexed reports are full, rue, complete and accurate copies of the original documents entitled1 1 Javint report 3106/3, 2C 0 c t 1945 (OM/232/E), containing statement of Kempei Major KATSUMJRA, 2 Javint report 3IO6/I, 18 0ct. 1945 (OM/23I/E), concerning case "Koo" officers concerned. 3 Javint report 3OO3/2, (QM/237/?), further interrogation of Kempei Major KATSUMJRA and Sgt. Major HA1UDA of Buitenzorg Kempei-tai, copies of which documents are part of the o f f i c i a l records of the NEFIS. SIGNATURE: Ctf. 'Joy+nui SEAL BATAVIA, June 7th 1946. Subscribed and sworn to before me K.A. de flEEHD, first Lieutenant R.N.I.A., Higher official attached to the office of the Attorney - General N.E.I. /s/ K.A. de m m > . Doc. No. 5756 Page 2 I4O1 OC CONFIDENTIAL ">M 232/2 4 Int Unit, Javint 31Q6/3. 20 0ct 45 23 Ind Div. Herewith translation of 15 page statement handed over by Kempei Major KATSCMURA on 20 0ct 45. j 1. Origin of the report from Sgt-Maj YABANA ( ) Sgt-Ma^; YA3ANA is not here, and so it is not clear; but, at that time, in Hq, he was working with a number of other people and, if they could be collected, it would certainly be possible to discover the names of the spies. The following were working with Sgt-Maj YABANA at the time: Lt. ONISHI ( ) Lt. OKUBO ( ) Sgt. M aj ICHKAWA ( Set. Maj XAGIYA ( Sgt. Maj MORIWAKI ( Sgt. Maj YAZAKI ( Sgt. Maj KAtfANISHI ( Sgt. Maj TAKAHASHT ( Plus 5/6 others. All are at present concentrated in BOGOR and neighbourhood. For Maj KATSUMJRA to demand a direct explanation in reply would be quickest and simplest. II The reason for putting into effect KO KASAKU (TN Yellow operation -?) At the beginning of 1943» i n S3M&TRA, every kind of anti-Japanese espionage organisation was discovered, and this order came out from the GOC_SUHATBA Army. Investigators came from JAVA also to cover the case, and the Armys in order to clear everything up before the Allies counter- attack. and prevent any damage being done, set up the necessary internal defence. <Tith the Army in central control, the following investigation system was enforced: Army Mil Adm Dept of Army Ki-MPEJ various def BEPPAN Civil Peace ;Tai units This operation was known as Operation 'JI'» and took place between Aug 43 ant^ Mar 44. At this time there were many suspects picked up and DoCo W0o 5756 •Page 3 held by each unit of the Kempei tai; in view of the number of ^aspects and the place, they weren't sent up to Court-Martial because otherwise the latter v/ould not have been able to cope with the work; thus a speedy ~ was difficult. On the other hand the war situation was da.'ly growing"more unfavourable to us, and in view of the possibility of an Allied landing it was decided to deal with the criminals as quickly as possible. Consequently, where the crime w s clearly proved, and the death^sentence considered suitable, on the decision of Army the criminals were punished therever they were. This was carried out fortnightly by every detachment of every section, on the orders of Army / and in accordance with the regulations for Courts of Military Law and similar ceremonies. On these occasions, we were ordered to preserve secrecy,, and to this end chose a place remote from sight, and a time early in the morning, or in the evening. III. Procedure after execution. After execution, of the punishment, time and place were at once reported to IK}, who at once reported to Army, i IV. People actually employed on this KO (yellow) operation. The people actually employed were Staff Officer MASUGI ( ), of Army, end Kaj. MUIfcSE ( ), Chief of Dept at Hq, Kemoei Tai. V. . Assistants of the above. Capt NOMJRA ( ), attd Staff Officer MA3UGH Lt. ONISHI ( ), attd Maj MURASE VI. Present whereabouts of above Staff officer MASUGI - staff officer of a div in Malaya Maj MURASE - Staff of KBIPEI TAI, TOKYO Capt. NOMCJRA - JAPJNESE troop concentration near BOGOR Lt. ONI SHI - BOGOR KBTE1 TAI VII. Men responsible for 'KO1 Operation. The operation was begun and carried through by MASUGI and MURASE, so naturally the burden of responsibility rests with them. Except that, if any of the reports which they received in the course of their activities DoCo W0o 5756 •Page 4 were false, they are no longer responsible for them. All other nersons acted on orders arid are not responsible. For this reason it is essential for the clarification of the case to recall KAStJGI and URASE to JAVA with the utmost despatch. VIII„ How to treat this case. It is first of all desirable to call a committee for the investiga- tion of Operation 'K0\ consisting of Staff Officer 03AMA ( ), who succeeded I.3ASUGI, and Maj EA.TSUJ.IJRA, who succeeded Maj MJRASE. This committee would investigate the items listed below,and then, together with a committee of Allied authorities, make necessary additions in order to establish the truth, after which action can be taken. Following particulars about the accusedt Name, age, sex, nationality, date of execution, place of execution. (These particulars are already being prepared at the request of the Allied authorities!, but they still have to be revised). Reason for execution in each case, oroof used to convict, investigator, executioner, OC Section and Detachment (also present address of KEMPEI concerned). IK. Items to be investigated regarding the KEMPEI. If there are any items to be investigated regarding the EEMPEI TAI, Maj KATSOMJRA, is responsible for them (as announced by Comd 'DESKER' of the British Navy about the middle of September, so please ask him about than, if Maj KATSUMJRA postpones the investigation, or makes false reports, he should be punished by the Allies. X, Career of Maj KATSOMJRA in JAVA. Arrived BATAVIA by plane (Lt) Studying JAVA in BATAVIA Ha Transferred to SOERABAYA 22MPEI Buntai (SEC) As Senior General Affairs Officer, studied actual operation of Kempei Tai. Promoted EEMPEI Capt. Transferred to BOGOR as OC KJ3.3PEI Buntai there. Reached BOGOR Buntai. In Apr, sent in reports of several cases already decided by my predecessor. When Army started Operation :JI®, began the following investigations? 3 Jan 43* 19 Jan 43. 20 Jan 43. 1 Mar 43„ 5 Mar 43. 10 Mar 43. Doe, N0. 5756 Page 5 KYUSA3DAN (Rescue Gp) - treated by civil adm as a minor case not sent to court-martial. Investigated by Sgt. Maj KIBA. ( ) WERNINK Secret Organisation (this case NOT yet finished). Activity in planning recapture of NEI (investigation nearly finished, but case NOT yet settled). Investigated by Sgt. Maj HAMAD A. 'DEPOK' Secret organisation (anti-Japanese secret oiganisation by half-castles and AHBONESE). Investigated by Sgt. maj OGAMI ( ). Reconstructed ''TETTER1 secret oiranisation. investigated by Sgt. Maj HAMADA 20 Dec 430 Transferred to SEMARANG KEMPEI TAl as 00 succeeded by Lt. TANIGUCHE ( ) V 23 Dec 43- Arrived S05ARANG. Took over 'Mayor of Semarang spying case' (Investigated by Sgt-Maj KANiiEO ( ) and finished about Dec 44s but the investigator was changed towards the end). I Railway sabotage case (Feb-Jul 44. But Capt KATSUMJRA was studying for an exam in the Army University, so not so much concerned in the case. Investigated by Sgt. Maj NED ACHE ( ). •SUDERO" Communist Party case INDONESIAN Communists. Case closed by instructions* from HQ,. Investigated by Sgt. TANAKA ( )« During the time in BOGOR and SEMARANG, there were also a few minor cases of rumour-mongering and violating the laws on radios. 1 Dec 440 Promoted KEMPEI Maj 15 Jan 45. Transferred to KEMPEI HQ, 20 Jan 45. Arrived Hq„ BATAVIA. Took over Chief of Trg. Dept. 20 Feb 45. present time. As Chief of Mil Affairs and Trg Depts, assisted Head of the Kempai TaiJ XI. OCs of BOGOR KEMPEI Buntai Mar 42 - May 42 Lt TANIGUCHE May 42 - Mar 43 Capt CHO ( ) Doc. No. 5756 Page 6 Mar 43 - Dec 43 Capt KATSUMJRA Dec 43 - Feb 45 Lt TANIGUCHL Feb 45 - Capt IWAMASA ( ) XII. OCs of SBMhRANG KEMPEI Buntai Mar 42 - Apr 42 Lt KJMBARA ( ) Apr 42 - Mar 43 °apt YAJBIA ( ) Mar 43 - Dec 43 (TN - Capt deleted) M aj YONEMJRA ( ) Dec 43 - Jan 45 Capt KATSUMJRA. Jan 45 - Capt MBA ( ) XIII. Organisation of HQ JAVA KBIPEI Tai a. Formerly ( up to about Mar 43^ OC 1 1 Branch Chief Adj (Spec Service) ' 1 1 ' Med Intend Adm _______ Trg. Org Special Police Secret Affairs Service One officer responsible for each Han. b. Present set-up. 0C Maj Gen NISHIDA ( ) Branch Chief Adj (Trg9 Mil Affairs) Capt FUJTTA ( ) Maj KATSUMJRA • ' Med - Capt Trg — ' "KOBAYASHT ( ) iJO KAGIYA ( ) ' ' Mil Affairs - Intend - Lt Lt. 0NI3HI ( ) 'KAMIYA ( ) Lt. OKUBO ( ) ' ' - Adm - Capt TAKAYAMA ( ) Doc» No. 5756 XlV. Organisation of Kerapei Buntai (Sections). Page 7 OC Buntai 1 OCs Detachment;., 1 •!/' ' -auhments f 1 1 1 Special Secret Seer- Police Affairs Police Af 'airs. Speci'al Secret Service Special -Seeyet Service t Adm f Ad.ra Police AfTarfS" Policp Adm A'i'SB -yp Sgt-^aj is responsible for each Kan, and sometimes one Chief controls several ban. £n• ''accorOa'heea\jiih the tBr^Sac^'iSk? ^gtioris-too,Affairs aofl^Adiehsv® - ••befcnhsi&Yid ed. In accordance with the changes in IIQ,, in the Sections too I.'il -Affairs 0?|a«-iSati&'n decBCGQfliBuAtai (1943) . Org;, .lis. tic a of BCGO.u 'Juntai (lOCq) Capt 'KATSUIvUHvV OC1 1 1 1 » 1 OC S C E X A S O E M I Det OC 5pec Secret OC Police OC Adm Han .70 I S H I Z K K I ( ) Service Han- '.VO Affairs Han Sgt Maj OC SQSEClBpa r YAI'.IAZ^KNS FT C RO' • $§> JWK^JDIIA BAN ( . ;/o ISHI;.,:,:;I ) •C:\RV 0 LINN-) .70 . 1... . -V.I -I,; V-;.: • . .I -AJ AZH JCI '.70 11 z .: ,u .... . . . f Organisation of sasi. JLFTNG K H I P E I 7 A I ( 1 9 4 4 ) : Crr .ib:. .j c . • 1. SASJPT XSO'i 1 FRY, , PATI Detachment OCs ' wi> tamacm ( ) 1 i 3? Lt KOBCJKI ( Lt EC. 'LI ( 1 1 1 . . I 2 B I M 0 ( DoCo W0o 5756 •Page 8 Spec Secret Service Han Police Affairs Kan OCs Adm Han OCs 1. 11, 111c XV. WO KANDO ( Sgt. Maj WAKIYAMA ( ) •HO HEBIN0 ( ) ) 1. JO TAKAMIYA ( 11. 7/0 AIZAWA ( 1. 710 KANDO ( ) 11. Sgt-Maj HASHIMOTO ( ) General situation of civil peac3 in JAVA and operation "K0! I At the time of the Japanese attack in Mar 42, all the peoples especially DUTCH, half-castes, AMBONESE and MENfcDONESE, being strongly influenced by DUTCH propaganda,, believed that the DUTCH would reconquer the island within 3 months. Accordingly, soldiers, government officials and civilians made preparations for the counter-attack, believing that without their help the DUTCH would not be strong enough to retain the initiative in a counterattack, and imbued with a strong feeling of patriotism. For this purpose, there were many schemes, utilising the former (TN - DUTCH - established) installation destruction groups, the administrative machinery, troops still at large, and native youths. In fact the organisations were legion. On the other hand, the Japanese airoy filled with the spirit of victory even the air-raid shelters were filled in, and nothing was done to conflict with the spirit of peace. After Jun or Jul one or two espionage organisations were dis- covered and picked up one by one. There however were very local, in BANDOENG, BATAVIA, BOGOR and SOERABAYA,. and were thought to be only isolated minor cases. <?ith the discovezy of these cases, and the realisation that the Allied counter-attack was to be delayed0 the- formation of espionage organisations ceased, and from Dec 42 to Apr 43 a period of real peace and quiet ensued. From about Apr 43» however, as the war situation in S77? grew more and more unfavourable to the Japanese, the people, especially DITCH, half-castes, AMBONESE and KENADONEuE„ began to believe in the imminence of the Allied attack, and underground activity once again increased. At the same time the JAPANESE army awoke from their easy confidence, and began to prepare against a possible Allied landing. In other words,, it was a time of crisis, in view of the dangers of trouble from within and of Allied action from without. At this juncture a big espionage case was discovered in SUMATRA, and a wide organisation unearthed ther®. It was also considered that a very similar organisation probably existed in JAVA, and in order to investigate this, operation 1JI' was begun, and, to bring it to a speedy conclusion, ooeration 'K0'. J TN - -he word operation has been used to translate 'KOSAEU* throughout, though it is not clear if KATSUMURA is referring to the operation itself or to , _ operatives concerned in it). Doco No. 5756 CONFIDENTIAL. JAVINT/3IL V l 18th October 1945. Case "̂Qffl, H Officers concerned. Army HQ,„ Staff Officer MASUGI (Chief of Judicial Affairs Department) Attache Capt. NOMURA Kempeitai. Major MURASE Attache Lt. ONISHI Officers commanding all TOKKOOHAN (Special Secret Sections) All investigating Kempei. All Executioners. SIMJARY. 1. In accordance with "OSAMU" plans, this case was dealt with on th - >ot at the decision of the military» so as to settle it as soon as possible. 2. The investigating Officer decided whether to inflict death sentence. The Hanchoo then approved it and after the Bun- taichoo had approved it the documents were presented to HQ,. 3. Firstly it was presented to several high officers at HQ, then to the Chief of the Departments then to tne Chief of the Kempeitai, and finally to Army HQ,, where it passed from Lt. NOMURA to the Staff Officer (MASUGI). After this0 it is not clear how it was decided (But Capt. NOMJRA may know something about this). Anyway, the order agreeing with the sentence was passed down. MASUGI NOMURA MURASE ONISHI OSAMU 4. This execution took place in strict secrecy, in the same way as after a Court Martial. Doc. No. 5756 Page 1C Reasons. Owing to the civil and military situation, it was essential to deal with this case as quickly as possible and to prepare to repulse the Allied onslaught. Officer who ordered the execution. Name of C-in-Cs Lt. General HARADA HARADA But the case was examined by Staff Officer MAEUGI. Method of dealing with case. We first9 within one week, investigated the following facts. 1. Name, age, and race of victim. 2. Investigating Officer. Hanchoo» Buntaichoo (Bunkentnichoo) 3. Name of executioner, place and method of execution. 4« Liaison carried on inside Army circles. Doc. No. 5756 Sheet 2./ Period covering executions, July I943 - March 1944-. Number of persons executed, (approx.). Banjoewangi 150 Soerabaya 50 Madoera 20 Semarang 1 Djoekd jakarta 20 Soerakarta 10 Banjoemas (Proekoerta) 5 Chirebon 0 Bandoeng 10 Bogor 7 Serang 0 Djakarta §0. TOTAL 293 Doc. Ho. 5732 ST..jZ I2-TT / 7 b / W Page 1 The undersigned, Charles JO.TGSSJSL, Captain R.IT.I.A., Head of '7ar Crimes Section of Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service, Batavia, being first duly srorn 0:1 oath, deposes and states: Th-rt via a ebovs msntiored -ai Oriri.-.s Section is in possession of lists Mad» ci-r: °x' •''•\y«.v:&sv> ir jirLiisv.-a /on authorities, covering 38 of the 104 prisons 1.1 0 :»a and Mac; Ou-a, of des/ibs occurred during the Japanese occupation period among the persons incarcerated in those prisons. That it has appeared from several random tests that these lists are not complete aarl that tuoiefcre 'in reality the figures were more unfavourable than those given in these lists» That these incomplete lists state the names of 1717 prisoners who died in the saidprisons during the years 1942 to 1945-- of whom three in 1942, 21 in 1943- 452 in 1544 and 1241 in 1945. namely 35 people under 18 yearsof age; IO85 from 18 to 45» and 597 parsons older than 45 years of age; being respectively 5 H Europeans (23 - 197 - 291 of the three age groups), 1112 Indonesians (12 - 821 - 279),and 94 Chinese and Arabs(—67-27), That in so far as the time has been mentioned between sentence and death (i.e. of 477 cases), it appears that 17 prisoners died within one week, 68 within one month, 75 after two months, 5 2 after three months, 34 after 4 months, 32 after 5 months, 48 after 6 months, 31 after 8 months, 10 after 9 months, 50 after one year, 17 after one year and three months, 18 after years, ten after two years, 18 after 2i years, and 5 after three years - after being sentenced, That therefore six months after the 477 cases mentioned already 326 or more than 68^ had died That only of 154 cases the cause of death has been mentioned, i.e. dysentery 49> scurvy one, tuberculosis 7, starvation oedoeme 5> marasmus 13, beri-beri five, enteritis 9, malaria 22, asthma and pneumonia 12, anaemia 2, chacoxia and cachexia 28, leprosy one; That it is apparent from 1940 statistics published by the Head office of Penology (department of the Department of Justice of the N.S.I.), that in the 104 prisons of Java and Madura, on an average population per day of 46,348 only 843 deaths a pear in 1940, being 18% of the prison population during the statistical year 1940 (present on January 1, 1940; 39,293, taken in during 1940 401,011 and liberated 398,594; present on Jan. 1, 1941: 41,710), That among these 843 deaths, cause of death was e.g.: malaria 81 (9.6^), dysentery 28 (3,33%), beri-beri 7 (0.83$, while starvation, oedeme, marasmus, chacoxia, and cachexia did not occur; Doc. No. 5732 Page 2 that it is clear., therefore, that under the Japanese domination the number of death cases as a result of insufficient food (scurvy, starv- ation oedoeme, marasmus, beri-beri, anaemia, chacoxia and cachexia) increased from 0,83% in 1941 to 35,06% of the total number of deaths, while the number of death cases as a result of insufficient hygienic care (dysentery, enteritis) increased from 3,33% to 37,66% of the total number of deaths, that even if these figures are incomplete and although it is not known how many prisoners altogether died during the Japanese occupation period, and what was the total number of prisoners, still it is clear already from tbese meagre figures what mismanagement there was during that time and that we can speak of systematical starvation and neglect of hygienic requirements, as had already appeared from the many statements concerning the treatment of prisoners by the Japanese authorities, that this is also evident from the annexed List of tne convict goal Tjipinang (near Batavia), state of health and deceases, made up by Dr. Wijtingi who, as a political prisoner, was interned in this prison and in charge also of keeping the administration up to dete, which list covers the period from May 1, 1943 to May 1, 1945» and which especially as from April 1, 1944» indicate a terrible increase of the number of deaths (from May 1, 1943 - May 1, 1944s 167 deaths on an average of 4250 prisoners, i.e. apprcx. 4%; from May 1, 1944 - May 1, 1945 ; 2257 deaths on an average of 4400prisoners, i.e. more than 51% 9» Signatures /s/ Ch. Jongeneel Subscribed and sworn to before me K.A.deWoerd, LL.D., first lieutenant R.N.I.A., senior official attached to the Attorney-General N.E.I., on this nineteenth day of August, 1946. Signature; /s/ K. A. deV/eerd (SEAL) Doc. No. 5732 Page 3 Strength of the population of the Convict Goal Tjipinang, state of health and mortality. Year Date Totcl Admitted into Deceased the hospital 1943 1944 1945 May 1 4564 158 8 June 1 4524 178 15 July 1 4189 167 x9 August 1 4197 187 11 September 1 4194 171 19 October 1 4020 169 7 November 1 4038 161 17 December 1 4182 202 8 January 1 4268 I84 12 Februarry 1 4312 202 10 March 1 4481 243 10 April 1 4410 191 31 May 1 4560 297 43 Juno 1 4562 326 58 July 1 4474 '670 151 August 1 4487 771 1 £7 September 1 4342 701 107 C ctober 1 4233 632 107 November 1 4226 649 83 December 1 4317 6c 0 125 January 1 4177 587 167 February 1 4223 ^27 222 March 1 4571 498 296 April 1 4721 448 315 May 1 4599 524 416 Doc. Ho. 5740 Page 1 STATEMENT OF BRIGADIER ARTHUR SEAFORTH BLACKBURN The witness duly sworn states My name is Arthur Seaforth Blackburn; I was born at Woodville in the State of South Australia on 25th day of November, 1092. I am of Australian nationality; my permanent home is Crafers in the State of South Australia. The. film "Nippon _Pr̂ a£ntLa." has been made from an original in Java during the Japanese occupation by Japanese camermen under Japanese direction made film, which original film I believe was. Intendedgivii_a_f aked impresslon or the traatftfeht nv Japanese of their prisoners "OT^war and of women-internees. English, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war and British and Dutch women and children were forced to play an act in this film in the way as is described by me in the introduction of the film "Nippon Presents", The original film was captured after the liberation of Batavia, as_I_amjlnformed and verily believe, and brought to Australia, where some of the players, who survived the ordeal of the Japanese camps, gathered at the instigation of the Netherlands Indies Film Unit to give an idea of the real occurances and conditions in prisoner of war and women's camps in Java. This i to certify-£hat the statements made by me and the other actors in the Australian part of the film "Nippon Presents", i.e. the parts m5de in Australia after tne liberation^ are given according to the truth as I and my co-actors experienced such truth ourselves. I am informed and verily believe that the shots which were inter polated in Australia have partly been taken from other Japanese films (not intended to fake the real condition, but meant to show the Japanese public the might of the_Japanese forcis.O and For the other part~frO!H films, which were made by Allied camera- men of the camps at Batavia after the liberation, when condition in these camps had already been slightly bettered. These last shots are not faked but gi\"en according to the truth as con- ditions were in the end of September, 1945• /s/ Arthur So Blackburn Brig. Subscribed and sworn to before me on board on this 21st day of October 1946. /s/ S. H. Crawford Commander R.A.N.R. Commanding Officer Doc. No. 5758 Page 1 S-fc at Qt _Qf_J ̂ SCHIMJVAN J2SR _LOEFF t_BataYia«. The vitness duly sworn states? My name is J. SCHIM VAN DKR LOEFF: I am of Netherlands national ity, my permanent home is Batavia, where I am living at present. I was bor»~ in Doesburg (Netherlands) on 25th September 19°7« In mid September 1945 I arrived in Batavia in the suite of Admiral PATTERSON as Captain R NIA (reserve), in charge of a detachment of Netherlands Indies Government Information Service (NIGIS), including several filmoperators. Shortly after our arrival we captured several Japanese propaganda- films, made by the Japanese in Java during the Japanese occupation. ^ Amongst these films was a film, named "Australia c a l x . Afterwards I have read SEATIC translation reports JAVINT No.3132/g (translation of statement by Capt. YANAGA.VA, dated 14 DEC 1945), from which I learned that said film was made 1'rom June to mid September 1943 under^ ^bA fli^pHnn nP Cant.YAIL̂ GA.YA Of the "3EPPAN" (Special Intelligence Section of HQ, l&th Army) as Chief Producer and that the film was meant" to deal with the daily life of PV?s with the purpose of e.reating ant j --Tn-r spirit, -in-Australia. After many discussions it was decided by the NIGIS to send this film to Australia, to try and collect there the same (ex P0.7-) players whom the Japanese had forced to play in the film and to insert in the Japanese film cuts from films which showed the real conditions under which the PO.'/s and internees had been living under the Japanese occupation. For these cuts were used the filmreels which the filmoperators from NIGIS and from other filmdetachments had taken on their arrival in the middle of September, 1945° in Java, especially in the POW-camps in the Xth Battalion barracks in 3atavia, in the POtf-hospitals "Mater Dolorosa" and "St.Vincentius* in Batavia, and in the women internmentcamps "Tjideng* and "kampong Makassar" in Batavia. Also were used some cuts from captured Japanese newsreels, giving the "glorious victory* of the Japanese and to show off their POUs at the beginning of the war. In this way the new film "Nippon presents" was made. I can state definitely that the cuts which have been inserted into the original Japanese film have not been faked like the Japanese film was, but show the real conditions in the POif and womencamps in Batavia as I have seen them myself in the middle of September 1945*— This statement contains the truth and nothing but the truth,, signatures /s/ J. SCH3M VAN DER LOEFF Batavia, September 3rd, I9460 Subscribed and sworn to before me, K.A. de '.VEERD, LL.D., Major Artillery RNIA, Senior Official attached to the Office of the Attorney-General N.E.I. signature /s/ K.A. de .VESRD. (SEAL) I DOCUMENT 110. 5759 DESCiiiPTioi; AED TI-;T or TEE FILM "ITIPPOU FEESEITTS". Explanation: Each scene is marked with: "(Japanese)", "(Japanese outside Java)", "(Australia Studio)" or "(Allied Batavia) "(Japanese)" means: Scene of the Japanese film "Australia Calling", made in 1943 in Java. "(Japanese outside Java)'' means: Scene taken "by Japanese cameramen during the war outside Java. "(Australia Studio)1' means: Scene talc en in Australia Studio "by Allied cam- eramen after the Japanese surrender. "(Allied Batavia)" means; Scone taken "by Allied cameramen in and near Batavia in September 1945, showing conditions as they were a month after the Japanese surrender. DOCtMEKT 5759 " KIPPOIT PRESENTS" On Screen: "Early in the Pacific War the Japanese who had over-run Java made a film for (screening in a conquered Australia to chow hew veil they treated their prisoners. This Japanese film fell into Allied hands. English, Australian and Dutch prisoner-3 rt war and internees were forced to play parts in it. Many cf these pri.vners are now dead, victims of starvation, ill treatment r.& disease. Some survived and a few of them have "been "brought together here to tell voluntarily and under a compelling sense of duty the true story vf how the- Japs :;ado this film. To e:-:pose this pictorial evidence provided "by the Japanese themselves cf the inhuman duplicity of their gaol. rs, you are now to see this Japanese film and on the screon and in the audience will he some of the survivors. They are:" 1 AUSTRALIA STUDIO: IKTRODUCING 0? THE ACTORS: Unseen speakf r: Introducing: Brigadier Elackburn, Victoria Cress, AIF Wing Crr.c1 r. Davis, SAT Fcuadron Ldr. Shepard, RAP DSC Group Cr.pt. Noble, RAF Capt. Dr. Kingma, Rlf'IA Mrs. E. J. Johnsor, Dutch horn English woman P. 0, Thomas, EAAF P.-. MCKBB, RAH Pro. Mic1 ..field, AIF Pvt. Rev1., AIJ Pvt. Willard, AIP Capt. 311ison, AIP Sgt. Harrison, AIP and Anner.!- ce 2 AUSTRALIA STUDIO: The Scene chows a Pilm Auditorium of Allied Actors; on the 2nd screen is to V; seen the end of the Japan- ese Film (f ->.cod memorial scene). Afterwards: In'.reduction "by Brigadier Plackhorn and Wing Cmdr. Davis. BRIGADIER BLACIG'JM: "Well, gentlemen, you have once again seen this Japanese picture in which you played a part. We will now show it to the pu.Vi.ic hut not aa the Japanese intended. The Japanese film wilj. he shown rs the. ma...' ) it and as ycu have seen it out after ea h sequence ./ill appear the truth-— scenes taken hy Allied camermen immediately after t!v. li'beratlon of Java. You will recognize mcst of these scenes and as the film unfolds year own comments will .tell the true story. DOCUMENT 5759 I have had fall reports from Ving Cmdr. Davis and others that the Japanese had forced you to make this film and that officers and men chosen had refused to take part in it. I know that you resisted to the limit; I know that they denied you food but, still you did not yield. I know that then these cunning devils,, the Japanese, applied the only form of pressure which could ever make you yield. They informed vou v. at unless you gave way and tooK part in the film they vrculd. r»- "uce the food ration to every man in camp and refuse anj medical supplies. I know that your medical of i'icors informed you that if they did that many of the prisoners under your command v:ould die. I la ov/ that at one stai;'e you, Cmdr. Davis, were threatened with death if you did not give permission to the members of ycur camp to take part." COMMANDER DAVIS: "Yes, sir, that is quiie correct." BDIGADIEE BLACKBURN: "I have investigated the whole matter fully and I know, gentlemen, that you have nothing to he ashamed of, that you were prepared to resist, even under the threat of death, so long as it only concerncd you yourselves. These officers and men have been troubled in their mind about having had to tame part in the preparation of this Japanese film. I told their thev need not be so troubled. They put up an epic of heroic resistance; they gave way only to save the lives of their comrades, determined to make as many difficulties as possible ar.d to turn the whole thing into a farce if the;- could. * COMMAKDBE DAVIS: 1 discussed it with the other officers and men. It was clo».r what the Jar>aner-% bad in mind but we thought that- the reduction of food and refusal of medicines would cause the deaths of many of our comrades, so we hoc1, to go on. The Japanese had to go over the personnel of the cemp with a fine tooth comb to find civngh. fit men for the film. It was a toug^ job too. A; least one camp was on starvation punis?inent for some trivial offense. The scanty rags of thousands were raked over and repaired to furnish a sufficient wardrobe to make the chosen men look decent and some cf them even got a banana to eat." 2. DOCUMENT 5759 BEIGADISE BLACKBUBN: "So now, we will see the Japanese film and against its lies the real thing unfakod." 3 SAME SCENE AS 3 on the second loreen. first: Cameramen shooting: afterwards: Swinging Sceiie, Ducks. . r UNSEEN SPSAiGR: "Japanese c&aeranen made this film hut this shot is intended to give the inpre"iio-- hat our troops made it themselves, men who would >3 more at hone shooting with a Bron gun than with a camera. Look at then, ever, the ducks were forced to act." 4 (Japanese) Farm Leeuwigadjah near T.limahi (West Java), (which farm the Allied Officers - PYs were forced to run in 1943), ducks. 5 (Japanese) Faked Library 6 (Japanese) Faked Surgery Office UNSEEN SPEAKER: (Continuing) "Ironical, isn't-it, while these men of ours were in this Fake library and surgery, disease and sicknoss were riot throughout the eamp but the- Japs refused to supply the medicines which they were holding - " 7 (Japanese) Faked Pleasant Chat betwren PW Officers. UNSEEN SFEAXES: (Continuing) "And as for the pleasant chat between old friends, it lasted as long is it took the cameramen to shoot the scene." 8 (Japanese) Smoking Chimney of Xth Batallion PW Carrp (so-called Cycle Camp) Batavia. 9 (Japanese) Kitchen of Hotel Indes, Batavia. UNSEEN SFEAa^R: "Food, the thing w.j dreamt and talked about, succulent beef, steaming bread. No, this is not the kitchen of a prison camp in Java. These scenes were takon in the kitchen of the luxury hotel des Indes in Batavia, the Japanese headquarters. "ne day a few Australians were taken out in the belief they were going on a work detail but were instead taken into the hotel kitchens. It was a rare sight for them. They saw the food, handled it, smelled it, but that was all - the Japanese ate it." WCOMENT 5759 10 (Allied Batavia) Kitchen Xth Batallion Caop, Batavia. (garbage) TJJTSEEN SPEAKER; "Pood eaten by the prisoners was little better than garbage prepared in filthy conditions." EET OP HEEL 1 SOCtTKJOT .5759 HEEL 2 11 (Japanese) Faked Wonens Canp (re vera: Mountain Resort Selabintanah near Soeieabooni, W. Java) J children playing games, singing, etc women around table, acting as a jury; UIhSEES SPMICEE: "You will now see how the Japanese would have you "believe the women lived in their canp." Cries of (Butch): "Loopen, loopen" = (run, run) (Children singing around a tree) "Eing around the rosy, pocket full of posies, ki chu, ki chu, all fall down," etc. 12 (Japanese) Eoard: Internment Canp for Women, woman sewing. "Thank goodness, that's finished." "Excuse ne, I an going up to Mrs. Marsh with this dress. I won't be long." "Faye, come here." 13 (Japanese) Drying Clothes. "Fine weather today." "I think the clothes will dry quickly." "Would you like some tea?" "Ho, thank you, not today, some other time." (One lino unintelligible) 14 (Japanese) Won en laeforo Hut &. "It certainly is hard on me." "What are -rou worrying about?" "Well, when I cane into this canp I did think I would be able to lose weight, instead of that I have been putting it on daily." "What are you talking about?" "Oh, it's (unintelligible), talking about her figure again." r'jMENT 5759 15 (Japanese) Woman entering with child's dress - Room with women. "Hello, everybody, I finished this frock, Mrs. Snipe." "Oh, thanks, it's very pretty." "You did it so quickly." "Well, you wanted it in a hurry. Come, let's try it on Joyce and see how it fits. Come on, Joyce, show everybody your nice new dress." "Do you like these records?" " . . . . , can't get records any more, so from now on we cannot play any more." 16 (Japanese) FITTIEG DRESS JOYCE - ROOM WITH WOMEN 17 (Australia Studio) MRS. JOHNSON SPEAKING. MRS. JOHNSON: "For the first few months conditions were really not so bad in our camp. It was pleasantly placed, the food waB good enough, and we had reasonable freedom. We lived in fact in a fool's paradise. When the Japs had made the scenes you have just seen, well, that was the end. We were whisked off to the germ laden, rat infested, filthy, slummy, bugbreeding slums you see of Eatavia, a forlorn mess of modern misery, of brutal beatings and indignities, of degrees of fever• weevils, lice, weevily rice, and utter hopelessness. That is what Java neant to us from then on." 18 (Allied Batavia) SCENES OF DIVERS WDMUN CAMBS IN OR NEAR BATAVIA: TJIDENG CAMP, XAMPONG MAKASSAR CAMP, TJIDENG CAMP AGAIN - FETCHING WA.TER (TJIDENG CAM?) UNSEEN SPEAKER: "Look at this little girl, where she gets the drinking water." 19 (Japanese) BATHING BEACH AND FISHING UNSEEN SPEAKER: "And now Nippon presents some delightful bathing scenes. Two hours the Japs spent taking these lovely bathing scenes. This was the only swim these boys had - two hours during three and a half years of monotonous misery. 6. piCUKEKT 5759 i':r the fishing, eleven men were given sticks with, string to dangle in the water. That was all the fishing they got." 2C (Australia Studio) DAVIS SPEAKING: "Allow ne to introduce vou to a camp's "bathroom and showers. Look, no wonder that ulcers and skin diseases got most of us." 21 (Allied Batavia) PWs CAMP's BATHROOM AND SH8WERS 22 (Japanese) PW OFFICERS SITTING IE A ROOM - Shepard is listening to radi dialogue between officers. (EASED PV CAMP; re vera MOUNTAIN RESORT SELABINTALAH) RADIO: "The report of enemy losses in our previous announcement regarding the Third Solomons Sea Battle is revised as follows: Sunk 2 battleships, 11 cruisers, 3 or 4 destroyers, and 1 transport. Heavily damaged 1 battleship, 3 cruisers, 6 or 7 destroyers and 3 transports." "Hey there, what about a cup of tea?" "Thank you, we sure will." (Visitors - PW's enter) "Hello". "Just got the news on the radio too". "Pretty warn." "Yes, it's warm all rir?ht." "Thank you, Jack." "Thanks." "No, thanks." "Hollo, ::.y friend, well, what's the news?" SHEPARD: "With, reservations it was quite a news from Japan." nPr»tty tough on us when we hear that the American propaganda broadcast says most of us have been killed." "Yes, it's sure hard on us." 7 1 .... oil 5759 23 (Australia Studio) §EEPA?D: "Even as I hoard the radio I realized the whole thing was faked. I was obviously listening to a voice transmitted fror. the nearby room. We had no radio in camp. After 1942 all religious services, concerts and educational lectures were forbidden." 24 (Japanese) SAME SCENE AS 22 - DIALOGUE CONTINUED. "War surely makes live men dead, dead men alive." "I'll make no monkey business, as long as my wife knows I'm alive, things will be all right." "I can even see her." (Officer Pw holding up dress) "What do you think of this, very nice, isn't it?" "Do you think she'll appreciate that?" "Well, maybe my taste is not the best but I am sure she^ll appreciate the gesture. She's an A-I lass. That is proved by her letters." "There he goes again - you married men." "However, I was quite pleased to get a letter from hone - it was an enjoyable moment. In the letter she said she was busy training for air raid guard." (€ne line unintelligible). "By the tine wa get back I vonder what will have become of our homes." "I sure would like to get home to try my luck at Pennington again." "Well, you won't see me there, for once I am camping on the girl friend's doorstep." "Yes, me too." "I am going to make my wad then I will settle down on a nice little farm." "Yes, the sooner it is the better." 25 (Australia Studio) SHEPABD SPEAKING; "Conditions of living declined as time went on until it was 8. , OCUMENT 5759 quite plain that we were of no account to the Japn. International agreements and humanitarian principles meant nothing to then. Most of us lucky enough to survive have suffered in health due solely to the conditions under which we were forced to live. Had the Japanese taken the slightest Interest in our welfare, many of our comrades would havo "boon alive today." 26 (Allied Batavia) LIVERS CAMP SHOTS AND SCENES OP EMACIATED PWs. 27 (Japanese) TENNIS GAME: UK SEEN S P E A K E R : "Ohe two, one two - "Even this carefree happy game of tennis was neroly another prisoner's drill under the orders of a guard." 28 (Australia Studio) REED SPEAKING: K I C K P I S L D - CUCKOO E I B D I M I T A T I O N THOMAS - S P E A K I N G ABOUT C3.ICKET GAME: R E E D : "By Jove, Mick, you made the most of that funny face of yours. Remember when y®u used to iritate the cuckoo bird and had the Nips running around the camp looking for the "bird? Can you still do it?" (Laughter)" MICXFIELD: "I still can." (demonstrating cuckoo bird imitation). THOMAS: "What about the fancy cricket match I umpired? We certainly pulled their log that time. They didn:t know wo were making up our own rules as we went along. I gave "batsmen out whenever I felt like it and the 'boys played up to it. Never was cricket played as we played it that day." 29 (Japanese) C R I C K E T GAMS: ( E N G L I S H C L U B , B A T A V I A , A T THAT T I M E JAPANX.SE CLUB) "How is that?" "Out!" END OP P E E L 2 9. DOCUMENT 5759 REEL 3 30 (Allied. Batavia) SCENE OP DIVERS CASES OB EUNGEEIOSDENA. THOMAS, afterwards DR. XINGMA (BOTH UNSEEN) SPEAKING. UNSEEN SPEAKER: (THOMAS): "Sure, we picked men had our fun that day hut a few months later not many of us were ven able to 'lift a cricket hat, let alone run, hut let Dr. Kingma who was also interned tell you about it." DR. SING-MA: (Unsenn) "Far from "being able to olay cricket cr any other ..ames, these poir men suffered from all the diseases resulting from starvation; heri-heri was only one of them. The hospital scenes you are about to see were fak^d from beginning to end. The Japanese took a group of Australians to this hospital in Batavia. Tragic to think that the men who posed for this mock treatment wore then still healthy, while the really sick men in the camps could not get the treatment and the drugs they so urgently needed." 31 (Japanese) FA;ED HOSPITAL SCENE, HUNS, PATIENTS - FAX2D USE OF X-RAY PLANT: FAILED OPERATION. NUN: "How are you today?" PATIENT: "Fine, than* you." 32 (Australia Studio) DR. XINGMA: "Pretty, wasn't it? In fact, ideal. Yes, but the trutv was quite different. In the prisoner of war hospital where I worked as a doctor the Japanese stole the X-ray plant, the radium and surgical instruments. How the hospitals really were, well, look for yourself." 33 (Allied Batavia) SCENES 07 DIVERS CAM? HOSPITALS (HOSPITAL ST.VINCENTIUS, HOSPITAL MATER DOLOROSA, BOTH NEAR BATAVIA) A3 TAKEN IN SEPTEMBER 1945, A MONTE AFTER T O JAPANESE CAPITULATION. TEE DOCTOR AND ASSISTANTS ARE NEW? ARRIVED. 3%* (Jaoanese) TRAIN IF THE MOUNTAINS 3"EAR SCFXAPOSMI: TERRACE MOUNTAIN RESORT SEIABIl!TAi;iAH SWIMMING POOL " BILLIARD ROOM " HOLF COURSE " 10. "DOCUMENT 5759 UNSEEN SPEAI{ER: "This delightful mountain resort used W the Japanese Officers of the High Command was chosen as an occasion for the scenes of this Japanese film. One day the Australian camp was gone over for men who still looked fit enough to act the party of happy sportsmen. They were told to be happy, that they could play billiards, swim, drink beer, play golf, .and eat good food." "Actually they did have a swim and played a game of billiards." GOLF COURSE (PLAYER) (Unintelli; cible.)-*1 this sure keeps me fit." 35 (Australia Studio) DAVIS SPEAKING: "Happy sportsmen indeed and then back to the barbed wire, the heat, the dirt, the weariness and worst of all to be herded and hounded by Japanese scum," 36 (Japanese outside Java) SCENES 0? PWs horded by Japanese Soldiers(Scenes taken by the Japanese outside Java). SPEAKER UNSEEN: "Some of these particular scenes arc from captured Japanese news reels made before the liberation of parts outside Java; they were exhibited with gloating pride through the one time Japanese Empire." 37 (Japanese) "WELCOME" SCENE: ?A3ED REUNION 0? HITCH PWs and THEIR FAMILIES, SELABINTANAH. SPEAICEE UNSEEN: "You are about to Bee one of the most unnatural of all scenes - a faked reunion of Dutch orisoners and their sweethearts, wives, and children. Those who attempted to embrace in a natural way were pulled aoart by guards and made to e.it) race to order in front of the camera." 38 (Japanese) SELAJBIlTTAilAE. DUTCH CAPTAIN SEATS HIS FAMILY. BUTCH LIEUTENANT AND FAMILY, DIALOGUE IN LUTCH' "Wat is:t vandaag prettig,, he! (What nico weather today) "Ja, wat een fijne dâ ., zsg!" (Yes, what a fine day, isn't it?) "Maar ik vind11 zielig voor die Aussies" (Put \<rhat a pity for those Anzacs). "Ja, dat vind i*c COK." (Yes, I think so too.) 1 1 . DOCUMENT 5759 "Sullen we ze roopon?" (Let us call them) "Hey, folks, cone here!" (Australians join the family) 39 (Australia Studio) ANNEMIEKS SPEAKING: "I am Dutch, my name is Annemicke. Mammy and I were in a camp in Java, But it vasn:t really like that, it was more like this, only sometimes much worse." 40 (Allied Batavia) WOMEN INTERNMENT GAMP? NEAR BATAVIA: TJID3NG CAMP, KAMPONG MAKASSAR CAMP (BAMBOO HUTS), AND AGAIN TJIDEKG,CAMP. 41 (Australia Studio: ANNEMIEKE (Continuing) "I wasn't very naughty and I helped mammy as much as I could." 42 (Japanese) LOVE SCENE (DUTCH ENSIGN AND FIANCEE), SEL^INTAMH - PRIVATE McilAE SITING A LETTER. 43 (Australia Studio) McNAB SPEAKING: MclIAB: "They gave me pen and paper and told me to write a letter. I started to w:cite hut net what I was thinking. An English bpeaking Japanese girl spo&e the words you will hear and which I was supposed to he writing-, tut if I had "been free to express myself this is what I would have descxibed:" 44 (Allied Eatavia) SEVERAL SCENES OP WHAT McNAB WOULD HAVE LIKED TO WRITE ABOUT. AK3NGST THEM SCENES OP POW CAMPS, BATAVIA, OF WOMEN AND CHILDHENS CAMP KAMPQEG MAKASSAR AND OTHER CAMPS. ENGLISH SPEAKING JAPANESE GIRL (UNSEEN): "Today is Visitor's Day - a day of joyous anticipation for the Dutch soldiersf and a day of sorrow for us as we have no one to call on us. Nevertheless looking at the happy families and sweethearts reunited ir_ an atmosphere of love and happiness brings me closer to you in thought. As I sit writing I recall the happy times we had together. My first hour home will ho (unintelligible) My thoughts are of home and you, of kangaroos and lovely beaches. - - - - - here amidst an atmosphere of - I wonder what you arc doing not*. Everything can be bearable as every facility is given us, but without you it is like a vain effort to keep body and soul together. My one wish is to get hone and to you where nothing can make me leave you again." 45 (Japanese) SELABINTAME, McNAB WRITING AND CRYILG. 12. DOCUMENT 5759 "Even my tears were faked. They poured some kind of stuff in my eyes to make them water, pretty powerful stuff too, a& I didnH s'oop crying for days." END DEE'L 3 13. DOCUMENT 5759 REEL 4 47 (Japanese) FAXED RECREATION ROOM a. PAY BAY / SPEAKER UNSEEN: "Rich for a couple of minutes, only, the first two envelopes contained money which had to "bo given "back of course. The others were just padded." b. Drinking beer (MICKFIELD) SPEAKER UNSEEN: "The beer you see on the tables was tea. Tubby Reed and I had the only real beer." 48 (Australia Studio) DIALOGUE BETWEEN HARRISON AND REED HARRISON: "The best beer I ever had. Remember the way I swigged the last of that? - - another bottle and before they could stop me that went too." REED: "Yes, I reiember and after seeing where it went I saw an ugly look on the Nip's face so I scrammed." HARRISON: "That was your fey all right, you also had that big steak. I only smelled it." REED: "By gum, that was good. One of the Nips asked me if I could eat a beef. I told him I could eat two feeds instead of one. They took me in there and fed me a bite of steak and said "Eat it as if you enjoy it." Well, I did not I tried to tell the camera with my c?yes what was going on. I hope you got me. Any»ray, I seemed to make a pretty good job of it, at least the Nip said 'Goto' which means 'very good' and let me finish the lot." 49 (Japanese) 1AME AS 47: REED EATING STEAK. 50 (Japanese) FAKED CAM? SHOP. "How are you, Doc.?" "How much are these films?" "How much for this sale?" "Reminds me, I will have a toothbrush too." "Cheerio." 14. DOCUMENT 5759 51 (Allied. Batavia) PWa LINING UP POP POOD ISSUE UNSEEN SPEAKER: "Yes, it was a lucky day for a few; the rest of the prisoners carried on with their usual starvation rations. 52 (Japanese) STREET IN BANDOENG - WOMENS DRESS SHOP BANDOENG - Capt. Ellison and friend (Officer PWs) Entering. "Good afternoon." "Gray, do you think this will fit my kid?" "What, the "big one?" "No, the new one." "How many have you got?" "Five." "Five? Oh, no!" "Yes." 53 (Australia Studio) CAPT. ELLISON SPEAKING: "I was one of the men you have just seen strolling through the streets of Bandoeng. The joke is, my friend, Gracie Allen, who was buying the frock certainly had a daughter, hut she was 18 years of age, We had no money BO they gave us a fistful of Japanese invasion money which they took from us immediately after the transaction. The two ehop ^irls were Dutch internees dressed up for the occasion and given special hairdo* During the whole of this farce our guards with fixed bayonets followed us just outside of camera range. Finally they replaced our prisoner of war badges and hustled us back behind the barbed wire." 54 (Japanese outBide Java) PWs being herded behing barbed wire 55 (Australia Studio) NOBLE SPEAKING: "At dawn one day 5Q0 of us were assembled in the hospital grounds, where a \f.rge cross had been placed, its base inscribed 'Lest We Forget'. When General Saito and his staff came on, a religious ceremony commenced. It vras impressive. We began to think that the Nips must have a grain of decency in them after all but when General Saito read his speech and the camemen shooting and then re-reading it to let them get close ups and we saw the shoddy cardboard cross swaying in the wind, and we realized that the 15. r-CCUMFi'T 5759 barbed wire had been camouflaged with broken branches and the machine guns trained on us were hidden in the distance, then we tumbled to tne farce it was0 The reverence with which Christians observe* our faith became no more than a mockery and and insult to our fallen comrades." 56 (Japanese) FAKED MEMORIAL SERVICE. SPEECH OF C-ENERAL SAITO: (JAPANESE), ENGLISH TEXT SHOWS GN SCREEN: "We treat well our enemy soldiers We -orotoct them May their spirits rest in peace in Heaven." 57 (Allied Batavia) CEMETERIES OP PWs NEAR BATAVIA, AMONGST THEM ANTJOL, BAT A V LI, PLACE OF EXECUTION AND BURIAL OF ABOUT 300 PEOPLE J RE,BURYING OF CORPSES IN SEPTEMBER 1945 UNDER ALLIED ORDERS SPEAKER UNSEEN: "Only under compulsion after the liberation did the Japanese provide even the simplest of burial decencies for -our comrades who did noo survive. Those we won:t forget." END OF REEL 4 16. I.P.S. DOCUMENT No. 5759 C E R T I F I C A T E > I, Klaas A. de Weerd, Attorney-at-Law, hereby certify that I am officially 'connected with the Head Office of the Attorney- General of the Netherlands East Indies with the special task of collecting such documents as would be needed for the preparation of the Prosecution of suspected Japanese Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo and that as such I have received from the Netherlands Indies Government Information Service the four reels of the film, entitled "Nippon Presents", to which refer the statements of J. Schim van der Loeff, Batavia (Prosecution Document No. 5758) and of Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn (Prosecution Document No. 5740). Further I certify that I wrote down the descriptions of sequences as these appear in the attached script of said reels according to my best ability and knowledge from what I saw on these films. Signed at Tokyo on this eighteenth day of December 1346. Signed: K.A. de Weerd. DOCUMEitfT 5685 5685 Class B an^_C_Offsn?M r.DIES SU11ATEA jietiierlands Division I.P.S. December lr4S. It.Col. J.S. Sinninghe Deanste E.i . I.A. assistant Prosecutor. r:ENT 5685 p ^ x SUMATRA Synopsis i . P: i SOURS 01 WAR. 1. Murder. Several murders of P . 0 o c c u r r e d after their surrender. Most of the executions were carried out in a very- cruel w ay. / a. At Banka Island, East of Sumatra, on 15 February 1942, a group of shipwrecked Australian servicemen was murdered by machino gunning after they had been driven into the soa; without any trial, even without any comprehensible reason. As appears from the report of the interrogation of E. -a.. LLOYD. E.N., V Prosecution Document 5617. The Prosecution enters this document 5517 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. b. At Kotaradja. North Sumatra, on 18 March 194?, a few days after their surrender, abort 50 Dutch P.C.W. (European and .tunbonese) were pushed into sloops, towed to the open sea and shot. As appears from the affidavit of Sgt. M. LATUPEBISSA, B.N.I.A., Prosecution document 5615. The Prosecution enters this document 5619 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. c. Major LEENEEER has already testified regarding the murdor of 22 Dutch F.O.W. at Tiga Boenggo. North East Sumatra, on 15 March 1342. 2. Cpjrzis. The conditions in the various P.O.W. equips in Sumatra have already been described by the witness Major PING-BE, who has given evidence from his personal knowledge and from the results of his official investigation regarding the other camps, additional evidence is presented now concerning two other camps, a. The British "'ing Commander P.S. DAYIS, in his sworn report, gives a summary of conditions of the P.O.W. camps at Pakan Baru. / Central DOCUiErT 5685 Page 2 Central Sumatra, whc-ro initially 2,000 Dutch and British P.O.W, were confined; Prosecution document 5604. Pilthy surroundings rnd bad accommodation; heavy labor, started immediately after an extremely exhausting voyage end overland trip, with only very little and poor food provided. The labor consisted in the construction of e railroad r.nd was conducted by a group of Japanese soldiers straight from the Burma railway P.O.W. gangs; which resulted in the same slave driving conditions and brutality as already shown to this Court by the testimonies of the late Colonel WILD and Lt.Colonel COATES. A dysentery outbreak was unavoidable bec"use the P.O.W. on their way had been lodged in the overcrowded gaol at Padang, under dangerous sanitary conditions together with native coolies who almost all suffered from dysentery. Practically no medicines were supplied, and no dressings, although after the Japanese surrender large stocks were available. Consequently, dysentery and malaria along "ith the results of malnutrition beri-beri, pellagra, rther avitaminoses, tropical ulcers - made the number of sick rise to almost 4C%-. The less sick people vrere forced to do garden work because the camps had to grow their own vegetables. Some 170 shipwrecked P.O.W. arrived in bad condition but were not given the necessary treatment and cere, so that many of them ĉ ied. The death rate rose to 80 and even more per month, due to lack of food and heavy work, but still the forced labour was increased. The Japanese Commandant showed no interest; several instances of brutality and cruclty in the treatment, even causing death, are given. The Prosecution enters this document 5604 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. b. In the Kota T.iane area, ITorth Sumatra, in October 1944 the P.O.W. were forced to march day and night over a distance of 90 miles in 68 hours. Each man who fell behind was beaten until he kept up with the main party. As appears from the affidavit of Pte. W. HAG-EDO OPT. R.if.I.A,; Prosecution document 5601. The Prosecution enters this document 56C1 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. DOClMEiT 5635 Page 3 3. Executions. In May 1543 the Dutch P.O.¥. at Lawe Segalrgalr-camp, Kota Thane, Were forced'to enlist in the Japanese Army, Pour of th~se P*0;T,;i who bad refused were executed, as is vividly depicted "by the eye-witness K>3.K5IJOC-Sî ilT. R.l",I.„., in his affidavit, Prosecution Document 5623. The Prosecution enters this document 5623 as an exhibit. II. CIVILIANS. A. Internees. The Prosecution refers to the. testimony of Major LE3NHEER who has given information from his personal experience and from the results of the fficial investigation carried out hy him regarding the 70 odd civilian internment camps. Additional evidence is presented hy the following. 1. Murder. Atotrt tJie srjae time as the Japanese murdered a group of Australian servicemen at the heach of B a .ilea Island, as stated hef' re, they murdered hy machine gunning and hayonetting a group - .•••• , x •• i , of ah out 20 Australian nurses vrho were taken prisoner. Sister BITiLWIlIELE has given testimony regarding this murder. They also murdered at the seme plr.ee and time two captured civilians: Mr. GORDON SOREST, the official Representative of the Commonwealth -f Australia in Malaya, and his political secretary. This appears from the affidavit "by the Australian A. IT. V00TT0N: Prosecution document 5645. o Prosecution enters this document 5645 as an exhibit. Major LEEKHEER has already given evidence ahout the murder of three British civilians at Pematang Siantar.in Mrrch 1942. 2. Conditions. As already described by Major LEE';:HEEE in almost all eemps conditions were utterly miserable. / In DOCUMENT 5685 Page 4 In the women chirp at BrMtagi, North Sumatra, food conditions wore terrible! in November 194 . the daily ration consisted of 140 grama of rice for adults and only 80 grams for children- (450 grams t 1 American lhs.) - ; in addition 20 grams of vegetables* These circumstances mode hundreds of desperate women break out in order to fin., additional food' in suite of the severe punishments to be feared. The Kempeitai investigated the matter and the two women canro commandants were severaly ill-treatedj including the threat of execution, as stated by one f them, Mrs.. E. PBL/S-nee EOEEBOE;", in her affidavit; Prosecution document 5S46, The Prosecution enters this document 5646 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. t B. I'on-inturned. 1. Bt musha. ^ / Not only -Javanese were forced to hard labor and sent to other parts of the Greater East ..sia Co-Prosperity Sphere, but also aborigines rf Sumatra had to suffer this enslavement, as appears from the affidavit of -i:iE BIN SAR0DI1 . who was detailed to work at Singapore under the usual hopeless conditions; t Prosecution document 5716. The Pro^ccution enters this document 5716 for identification and the excerpts as an exh ib it. It is brought to the Court's attention that several of the Eomusha, wtrse affidavits have been dealt with when the area Java was presented, were also ill-treated when working on islands belonging to the Sumatra area. 2. Kempeitai. The methods of the Sumatra-Kempeitai did not substantially differ from those rpplied by the Java Kempeitai, from whom they received r ssistari.ee. Ma.jor "ATSTJKUBA, in his report already introduced, exhibit (Javint 3106/s, sub II) gives evidence about the "JJ."-operation, in Sumatra, 1943. The / suspects BGCTJMLNT 5685 Page 5 suspects were not sent up to Court Martial "but a speedy way of dealing with them w^s adopted, in fact the same system was applied as with the T'Zo"-operation in Java. '"Then the crime was clearly proved - in the opinion rf the torturing investigators - ana the death sentence was considered suitable, the criminals were executed, on the decision rf the Army. These executions were carried cut fortnightly by every detachment of every section, in secrecy. The executions vere at once reported to Eempei Headquarters, who at -nee reported to the ..rmy. Prosecution document 575S, already introduced as exhibit . Personal experiences show the same pattern'as in Java: a. „t Me dan. North --ast Sumatra, the methods of torture applied were: watertest and st.r-.re beatings. Ti..e treatment of the victims was er.tremeiy bad and drove th m to s\iicide. As appears from the affidavit of I. G-. ZHIS15: Prosecution document 5625. The Prosecution enters this document 5525 for identification and the excerpts as e.n exhibit. b. A.t Shibolga. North West Sumatra: beatings and manhandling, torture, infliction of injuries, watertest, exposure if naked victims to the local population; bad treatment of the prisoners. As appears from the affidavit of Police inspector ... Suyker; Prosecution document 5635. The Prosecution enters this document 5635 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. o. At Tand.jong Zarang. South Sumatra; beatings, burning of moustache, paid other ways f torture. Affidavit of J. C. EDBLIIiZ; Prosecution document 5636. Prom this as well as from the case nf GLTZJSR appears that the Zempei -fficers condoned the ill-treatment. The Prosecution enterstthis document 5656 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. d. At Palembang. Central South Sumatra, a Chinese d^ct^r was a victim of the Ztrnpei and afterwards forced to cure the vietims. here also: severe beatings, in several ways; watertest, with / sometimes f » s DOCUKSirT 5S-&5 Page 6 sometimes more than 3 gallons of soapy water, incid.ento.lly resulting in death; hanging; "burning; threat of "beheading; playing "ball with an Indonesian as the "ball. Doctor LP DJIEL-;' SIOE described these tortures in his affidavit: Prosecution document 5632. The Prosecution enters this document 5632 for identification rnd the excerpts as an exhibit. 3. Pris ns. In the gaol of Pematang Sianter, vforth East Sumatra, more than 3CC Our of the 550 prisoners died in tvro years time. The causes of death were invariably; dys<ntery, malnutrition and the consequences thereof. Prisoners who were expected to die soon were put into a special cell; the dying was speeded up by putting the patient outside the cell in tho tropical sun. As appears from the affidavit of P. P.. KELJ--SB. Head manager of the Deli Tobacco Company; Prosecution document 5634. The Prosecution enters this document 5634 for identification and the oxcerpts as an exhibit. This completes the synopsis regarding the Japanese conventional war crimes and crimes against humrnity committed in the area Sumatra. Document No. 5617 FagJ No. 1 COPY VIL'.R CHIMES Interrogation of Ernest Alexander Lloyd, CKX 86448 RN.L/S. by NX31499 Lt. x. Dixon, regarding atrocities by the Jap-ruse against (1) I was a member cf thj crew of the SS "Vynerbrook" which was sunk of Bangka Island on 14th Fob. 42. (2) I reached the shore in the company with ^/B. Cake .̂nd L/S. Noble, some civilians and about 5 nurses. (3) ife slept that night with other survivors on the beach. There were about 40 or 50 there including about 20 .ustralian nurses in charge of a Matron. (A) Next morning the First Officer of the "Vynerbrook" left to contact the J ipanese. 1L party of about 10 tc 15 civilian women ana children also Cake and Noble left to go ahead. (5) The First Officer came back with a party cf about 14 Japs, in charge of an Officer or NCO. wearing a sword. (6) The japs separated us into thrae groups. (a) Servicemen, (b) Civilian man and women. (c) Nurses. (7) I was with the group of servicemen and we were marched a short distance along the beach. Just cut of sight of the others. (8) The Japs set us a machine gun and clearly indieatee that they intended shooting us. (9) Several of us made a break for the water and were fired on. I was wounded but was carried out to sea by the tide. I later struggled back ashore and into the jungle in the early afternoon. (10) I passed out. on coming to later it was daylight. I •walked along the beach and came upon the bodies of the group of servicemen some of whom I recognised. (11) Further long the beach-where we had left th3m-I came across the bodies of the nurses (about 10) and after th'.t the civilians. All appe'.red to have bayoneted or shot. (12) I want back into the jungle and about ten cays later I made my way into Muntok and surrendered to the Japs.} ' Document No. 5617 Page No.. 2 (13) I was placed in a P»/. hospital and there mot:- Ji Englishman whom I rememborad as one of the servicemen's group on the beach. (b) .JI /.merican whom I recognised as one of the main group on the baa (c) Australian nurso whom I did not recognise. Questions by the Interrgating Officer. Q. 1. Have you any moans of indentifying any of the Australian nurses No. Q. 2. Have you any moans of indentifying any of the party of Japs or their units. Did you see any of them again? A. No. But they w^re -'.riny and not of the other services. Q.3. Do you know the name of the iSnglishman. ... Yes. KINSEY Pte. He died at iiuntok. Q. 4. Do you know the name of the ̂ jnerican. No. But I saw him about July or ..ugust 42. with the civilian internees in Palenbang. Q. 5. Do you know the names of any of the Jap Units in Bangka Is. in Feb. 42.? A. No. Q. 6. Boforo the Jap oponed fire on you did you hoar shots or other sounds from the area where you loft the nurses and civilians? No. But I hoard shots aftor I was in the water, jjlnterrogati-.n concluded. To the bost f f my bilief the foregoing particulars are correct. ilTNiSS (Signed) (Signed) KX31499 K.H.Dixon, Lt. Interrogating Officer, 2Aust P.VJ. C ntact L Inquiry Unit. ..IF. • IT. JSS (Signed) NX53123 2/15 Field ...rt, Ragt. Interrogation conducted at Sungei Ron P.rt.C-mp, P -.lembang on 18th Sept. 45. Certified truo copy of original affidavit /s/ R. B. Lairibe, Lt. Colonel ..„..G rfar Crimes H. y. 18th April 1946 Doc. No. 5619 Page 1 C E R T I F I C I T E The undersigned CHARLES JONG' NEEL, first lieutenant R.N0I.A., head of the War Crimes Section of the NETHERLANDS FORCES INTELI" G3I7CE SERVICE (NEFIS) being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the annexed report is a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original document entitled: "Sworn statement of lie Iki anus LATUPERISSA, Sergeant first class, section commander No. 1884- of the NI Red Cross organisation, Kota Radja. dated 11 April 194-6§ Signed II. Latuperissao11 Oil 8221/Sc which documert is a part of the official records of the N E F I S . SIGNATURE; S E A L /s/ Ch» Jongeneel B A T A V I A, June 7 th 1946 Subscribed and sworn to before ne Ka A- de L"EERD, first lieutenant R„N.I.A* Higher Official attached to the office of the Attorney General N«E„Io /s/ Au A. de V/eerd Doc. No. 5619 Page 2 S T A T E I! E N T SUIHiARY OF EX/IITH.. TON of Iielkianus LATUPERISSA, civilian clerk at the military Hoj-ital KOTA RADJA, at the time of the invasion, SegtQ 1st class, section commander No* 1884 of the NX Red Cross Organisation, district of KOTA RADJAs who, duly sworn, states? I am 38 years of age, of & 30NESE nationality, born at LHO SOEKOEN, AT.TEH. I am at present "at" i IE DAN STORES HOUSE, vQn 12 Karch 42 X stayed i behind in the hospital, at KOEJA R A D J A, after all the Dutch troops had gone South, A^group'of about 50 or 60 men, amongst whom was at least one officer, missed the train to the south and consequently was at KOTA RADJA when the Japanese entered^ This group consisted of DUTCH", AHBONESE", 'IZNADOTHSE and J A V A N E S E . Some of them were medical orderlies, wearing a red-cross armband, others were convalescent patients and further there were a few guardse i While gangs of were looting the town, the DUTCH soldiers hoisted the white flag on TM lUJUWly-statlon building and waited for the Japanese to capture them. I succeeded in persuading two JAVANESE and TU0 A:I30NESE, namefr S I N A Y not to wait any longer for the JAPANESE, because of the risk of being murdered by the ATJF.HNESE„ They fol- lowed me and I brought them safely to one of the nearby kampongs. That same day, -12 L: ̂ ch, I saw myself that the group of men was captured by tue ATJEHNESE and brought to the KOTA RADJA club where they had to squat * The Oeloebalangs (ATJEHNESE district chiefs) were assembled in another room at the club0 One of them, with whom I was acquainted, signalled me to go away« Two days later a certain ALI, an ATJEHNESE with whom I often used to go out fishing, came to see me and I asked him to find out all he possibly could about the prisoners. In the neatime many Ambonese and ilenadonese civilians were captured too by the AT.T~:HNT;SF,. They were mishandled and .several were forced..to become &OHAUIEDANS, before the Japanese stepped that or re-quest of a certain I.;rs0 NOE. The plunder of the town went on for three days, before the Japanese put an end to that too and ordered the stolen goods to be handed in again0 Doc. No. 5619 Page 3 On or about 18 March 42 lirs„ LECERG caine to see me and told me, that her husband ¥0 II LECERF, and thp whnlq group of captured soldiers were brought by closed motor lorries from the local prison alsong the road to OLEH-LEH. The next day I net the aforementioned ALI, who tola me that the dax before he had seen at OLEH-LEH that about 50 Dutch and Ambonese F t h e i r hands tied behind their backs, barefooted, dressed in underpants only and well guarded by JAPANESE armed soldiers, had been unloaded from motor-tracks and had been literally kicked into three white painted boats of the KFM type9 ALI had asked the Japanese officer in charge what was ging to happen to these people to which that officer had made the gesture of shooting. The Japanese boarded the boats too and then the sloops were towed to the open sea by the steam tug "LIE TJENG"', manned by tKe'"'Javanese crew0 When the boats were still visible ALI heard shooting. After less than 2 hours the steamtug re turne 0. m " hail hour , however, with the sloops. The next day after ALI had told me this fetory I went to OLEH LEK, prentending to go out to fish. I heard from fishermen there that they had seen at sea parts of human bodies drifting, apparently bitten off by sharks« Two days thereafter I went again to OLEH LEH and that time heard the story that the corpse of an EUROPEAN had drifted into a poekat (fishernet) near the beach of OLEH LEH. lirso LECERF is living at IZDM now and also a Hr. KR00N, who at that time was at KOTA ?uJ;JA and who might knovtf something about the tragedy, I remember as names of men, who belonged to that group; IIANAIT, Ambonese sergt. lied. ord. His widow is living now at GL0EG0ER. 1.IETEK0HY, A m b o Sergt. Ked, ord. KASWYAN, Javanese sergt0 cook AI-A-L.1 PLA D J I, " corporal Rumours at that time at KOTA RADJA said, that all these men were executed, because the Japanese believed they belonged to a destruction unit, which had destroyed bridges and roads. Signed M LATUPERISSA I Witness > «> R* 1 '•> ' Doc.. No. 5619 Page 4 I certify that I duly translated the above summary to the witness in his own language, prior to his signature which appears above. Signed J J A VAN DE LANDE Translator Sworn before me J J A VAN DE LANDE for C"i No 4 War Crimes Investigation Team This 11th day of April 194-6 Detailed to examine the above by the Commander-in-chief, Allied Land Forces, Sou!;h East Asias Authority; ALF3EA War Crimes Instruction No. 1 para 7* Document No. 5604 Page No. 1 LID/JAG/FS/JC/l5(3A) I K THE L A T T E R OF THE I L L T R A A T M E N T OF B R I T I S H P R I S O N E R S OF J A R I N J A V A AND S U I A T R A B E T T E E N 1942 and 1945 [ A F F I D A V I T I, ĵflfi fiPWF-r1der_PA.T^ICK IL^uS. No. 39862, Royal Air Force (Pilot) at present on the strength of No. 106 P.R.C., R.A.F, Station, Cosford, and on 42 days repatriation leave at my permanent home address "Lyndhurst", 20 Cliff Parade, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, make oath and siy as follows:- The Report which is now produced and shown to me marked "PSD1" is a repert compiled by ma on the 19th November 1945 relating to Japanese War Crimes in Java and Sumatra between 8th March 1942 and 20th September 1945. The facts sat out in the Report are true and are within my own know- ledge except where the contrary is stated. SWORN by the said FATRICK 3LANEY DAVIS ) at 6 Spring Gardens in the City of ) WESTMINSTER this nineteenth day of ) November 1945 ) (Signed) P A T R I C K S L A N E Y DAVIS. B E F O R E K E : G. BAERATT, Liout enant-c olonel, Legal Staff. Military Department, Office of th« Judge Advocate General, LONDON, S.W. 1. I certify that this is a true copy of the original affidavit. /s/ G. Barrrtt, Lt. Col., Legal Staff, Office of the Judge Advocate General. tfr . Document No. 5604 Pago No. 2 V \ .... "P.S.D.I." - ; This is the Report marked "P.S.D.I" referred to in the Affidavit of Wing Commander t••trick Sidney Davis sworn this nineteenth day of November 1945 BJ£F0HI5 JVIIS G . B . J I R A T T, Liuutenant-colonol, Legal Stiff. Military Dept., Office of,the judge Advocato General, London, S.s/.l. f RIIPOKT B Y WING COTALI'JIDJSFT P . S . DA V I S , B O Y A L A I H F O R C E , R 3 L . T I I I G TCLFFI&SE j JMP H..T|(F Y £ I I S PRILSOIIIIR OF .uft C D T I V I T Y UNDER THJS J . J R . L J S * K / ^ V A L N D . ^SUkATIA^ - I'i,RCH 8th, 1942 to S&1EJBM 20th, 1945- ^ ^ I, vfing Commander Patrick Slaney D..VIS, No. 39862, itoyal Air Forco (Pilot) it present on the strength of Mo. 106 F.A.C., A.A.F. Station, Cosford, end on 42 days repatriation leave at my permanent homo address - "Lyndhurst", 20 Cliff Parade, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, report as follows:- j 2. In January 1942, I was serving as the No. 2 Organisation Staff Officer t.n ,'l~i T1 K i."fii|iiii'f„.i'.'! F",r ijl̂st . Sime Road, Singapore, on the 2nd February, 1942, I was posted to the near Headquarters Aoyal Air Force, Pqlerabam::. Sumatra, ;iftar two weeks, Palemhang was attr.ckod by Japanese Forces and I proceeded to iioyal 'dr Force Headquarters.. Java, located at Soeka Boerai, under the Command of 'dr Vice Aarsh .1 ILiITBY. On 26th February, 1942, a new Allied Headquarters was opened at the military Academy situated on the D~rgoveg, Bandoeng, under the command of dr Chief Marshal, Sir Richard il&lCd. ^ft-r four days, I returned to Soeka Boeui and on the 3rd March, 1942 I returned to Bandoeng, when .'dr Vice Marshal I.ALTSBY took over as Allied Commander in Chief From General T'fayoll. and dr Chief Marshal Sir Richard fierce. On ot'n Larch, 1942, the J-'poneso attack on Java had pro- gressed to the extent that the aerodrome at Kala.jati had fallen to their occupation and a serious aerial" attack was in progress agdnst JDIlc, the aerodrome"'south of the city of Bandoeng. Considerable confusion existed and it was decided to withdraw the present Headquarters to the Central Hotel, Tasik Malaj ., v.here I proceeded on the 7th March, 1942, accompanied by Group Captain COGGLJ. Gn_the afternoon of ^arch 8th. 19A2. we were officially informed by the Dutch that a decision to"f̂ p;it.ni rt.a t.n t.h,; .T r̂ n,--.̂ Forces had been reach-a. uir ''ic ; .iarshal ̂ .I/IBY d^cidjd to withdraw the British Forces locvted around Tasik A-.laja and the Australian Forces located around Buitenzorg to the hills above G'roet and their dispose his forces to with- st .nd the enemy. I was ordered by .dr Commodore ST..TON to take command of the convoy of British troops from Tasik Malaja to p megaton, a tea estate situated in the hills above Garoet. On the afternoon of the 9th M rch, 1942, I reported to ,.ir Commodore STATOI-. the successful arrival of the whole convoy. The British force w s disposed on the hills around i ..AiiiErAT.iN, the Australian Forco being dispersed on the noxt r inge of hills lying to the right of the British position. On approximately 10th March, 1942, we were informed by Air Vice -orshal MALTBY th"t the British Force h~.d to surrender^ together with the Dutch, under the terms of the capitulation by General tor i-QORTiN, itoyil Dutch Netherland >ast Indies Army. Document No, 5^04 i'age No. 3 3. On the 11th M >.rch, 1%2, I proceeded to BuNDOiMG with .dr Vico iaarshal .-dTBY ..jid after spending the night in tho Dutch Headquarters at B̂ IDOiiMG, visited tho Japanese Staff who had established themselves in the I'iiLiNG.i HOTJSL, BAKDOiiNG, .dr Vice Marshal K.LTBY and I proceeded back to rVTiOHTT YTi+Ji .TMiaftaaw t-'.ir1"- 0 n "pprcximatoly 16th March. 1942, I was ordered by Air Vice Marshal MALTBY to form .on Advance Headquarters at a Railway Station at TJIB,i.TU near GidiOJT, whore we were to work as hallway Control Officers to pass the entire British Force in groups of 600 through to the B.J'AVLi area. On approximately 18th March, 1942, Air Vice Marshal LLiLTBY was injured in a car accident and was taken to the Allied Hospital, Bandoeng, and that evening -dr Commodore ST.iTON jnd Group Captain B1SH0I wern nrrK̂ iri t.o t.h;; .TanTi^n Headquarters., Bandoeng, from ntfflqft trip they did not return. Th e Japanese under • ;'aj .-r SAITO IJU demanding much infor- mation which under the terms of my orders from Air Vice Marshal lidTBY, I could not give and I sent a dispatch rider tu .dr Commodore SILLY, who was located at Tasik Malaja, with a force of approximately 2000 unarmed airmen., •dr Commodore SILLY arrived that evening and took command. Two days later, I left with idr Commodore SILLY and proceeded to Tasik Malaja where we located in a house pending the arrangement that the Japanese said they would make under the terms of which Air Commodore SILLY ma his Staff (of which I KITS a member) w ,uld co-operate with the Japanese Headquarters ".nd the International Med Cross represent atives for the general co- -rd in at ion of the Japanese plans in respect of the prisoners of war taken in Java, 3A„ Two days later, I was taken ill with Malign Tertiary Malaria and sent by the Principal Medical Officer, v/ing Commander C. COFFiSY, K.A.F, to the Allied Hospital Bandoeng, at that time commanded by Lieutenant Colonel DUN10P, Australian medical Service. Two days later I was transferred by the Japanese to a hospital at TJIMAHI, where I remained as a patient for two months. 4. I then returned to Tasik Malaja on or about the 15th May, 1942, remain- ing there for two weeks, accommodated in a hangar on the aerodrome and then proceeded with all other personnel by train to SOiitABkYA., where 1500 offi- cers and men of the British force were accommodated in extremely cramped conditions in the Soorabaya Grammar School, The Camp Commander, working under the Japanese, was Ming Commander VI-NJiS, Royal Air Force, Seven months later, the command having ch \nged in the meantine to /tfing Commander rfiSLCH, R.A.F., ^proceeded to the Dai-mo Camp, also in Soerabaya, whore conditions were extremely good. I rSiriaihSd tnere for six weeks arid was then transferred to" YdrfA'a-irFTIampT̂ in central Soerabaya, under the command of Captain BLOOM", Royal Dutch Netherlands East Indies Army. I remained there until the middle of April, 1943, when I was transferred to the Tjimahi Camp, near Bandoeng, commanded by Commander HOOT, iLD,N.JJ.I.A. I remained there for six weeks rnd was transferred to the Bandoeng Camp under the Commander of »dng Commander N1CH0LIS, h.A.F. On 28th December 1943, I was transferred with the whole of the personnel of the Bandoeng Camp to the.Cycle Camp, Batavia, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel'IANCING, R,D.II._S,I. Army where 1 remained until my departure in May. 1944. as commander of the draft of 2000 men posted to an unknown destination. Document No. 5604 Pago No, 4 The Japanese Officers who within my certain knowledge wore personally responsible for bad living conditions and ill treatment werot- Colonol X •IM.IJII.R-IFR̂--' . « -I . . • • j. KAJ/IBJL who h id boon. cQcmandsy of all F.O.Js in the Soorabaya area who h .d consistently refused the appeals of allied Officers for medicine nd food (See report of Wing Commander, C.COFFiiY, Principal Msdicil Officer Soorab ya Car-ips), -jur.d Lieutenant. 3Qi;l, who was commander of tho Cycl-> Camp, ->nd who in my presenc , wilfully maltreated prisoners of war ••.nd who has a record of unparalleled cruelty in the Batavia area. (See report of iing Commander NICHOLLS, R . A . F . and Lieutenant Colonol V » D I S 5 F 0 S T , Intelligence Corps, British --rmy). I cannot give further detailed reports on Japanese in Jav- is I was never in a position to obtain oxact details, but the .JLlied Officers ro^errocPBo above, especially Lt. Col, V . J D J S R F O S T , have been in a position to obtain detailed facts of tho whole area, valuable report has been submitted to the Allied Headquarters, South Ast Asia, by Lt.Col. I. JLoJX, K.A." .C. who was the doctor commanding the /Iliad Hospital B"tavii for approximately three years. 6. .Colonel is a small, wizened Japanese Officer, approximately five feet tall \nd of typical Jap vneso appearance. Lieutenant SONI. on the othor hand, js vmir.gr npnrnvi. t. Hv 30 y . .rs old, and extremely smart in his ap- pearance, but walks with ajpronQunce^ ŵ-iggei-. He is rather handsome and is about five feat nine inches, of.athletic appearance and is decidedly non- Japanese in facial characteristics. I cannot remember the names of tho Commanders of the individual Soerabaya Camps but K^fogjj was Supreme Commander of the \r - for General 3..IT0 -whose Headquarters war a in. Singapore. The Tjamahi Camp "was ccSr^ded by 1st Iaoutenant Y.i-L.GUCHI, another brutal officer on whom Major HOOT will report. The B'ndoang Camp by Captain TTjĵ A".rgjL. an officer who did not control his guards but who was not respon- sible for any atrocities as far as I know. (See report tfing Consnnder KICKOLLo and Lieutenant Colonel V.i'iDM OST). Tho Cycle Camp was commanded by Lieutenant JONI (See p-ra 5 above). SUI.'-.TPJi DRAFT. 7. [On 1st -nrcn 1944, a draft was selectod by the Japanese from personnel of the Cyclo Camp, Batavi";, consisting of 2 battalions of 1000 men each, comprising in total approximately 3750 Dutch and 250 Jhglish/J No, 1 Batta- lion was commanded by i/ing Commander wIGHTvilCK H..1.F., and No. 2 Battalion by Lieut. Col, T B B I K O O I D * , I L . D . N . J S . 1 . .rmy. The personnel of this .'raft was segregated from the rest of the Camp and placed on extra rations. Norerous dysentery tests were made (approximately one por weak) and a very casual ef- fort was made to ro-kit personnel, but as nearly all the clothing issued was Dutch pattern uniforms intended for snail native troops, vary little could' be utilised by the personnel on tho draft. Towards tho end of Vpril, 1944, King Commander ilGHT.JICK w-s admitted to the C-unp Hospital suffering from dysentery, and I volunteered to take his place. I applied to Captain TCFf•JvXa' the Japanese Commander of the draft, and when I explained that a largo percentage of the British troops proceeding on the draft had previously been under my command, he accepted me as draft Commander. Document No. 5604 Page I'!,, 5 /\' r 8. [On the morning of the 14th May, 1944, the party marched with full 1.to from "the Cycle Camp to P»slr Sinan Station, Batavia and entrained for Tand- * jjng Frick docks. There we embarked on a Japanese transport of approxi- mately ^Wi t as; 1000 men including all the British being accommodated in tho f.-.r/rrd h Id ar:d the romining 1000 Dutch personnel in the aft hold. By rpplic r.iori r.o rj-̂ fr̂ n fn'J.vffff' r ̂ o n + ^ T O f n ' p 'ITA rU^g^nnof . the forward hold on to thp deck for Physical training in batches of 50 for 15 minutes at a time and I obtained permission to use one of the ships pumps ^ thi» mfiî to bathe. Food and tea were available. The accommodation in the hold was extremely cramped. tho men sitting upright with their legs round the men in front of then. Numerous cases of prostration had to be br ught ..n deck, especially during the midday hours. The guards were not troublesome during the journey, The ship was in convoy with two other ships of approximately 5000 tons each, escorted by a Japanese corvette, with one Japanese bomber as aerial c-ver* Our sister ships wero carrying approximately 5000 Javanese coolies under disgusting conditions. No incidents occurrod during tho voyage^ "" I 9. On the evening cf the l?th May, 19A4, we docked r.t P/IU<£, Sumatra, and disembarked and marched approximately 12 kilometres to a di5r»c " No food was provided and n, lavatory accomodation being available in the cinema. Tho following morning we marched a further 8 kilometers to the Fadang Civil G'.ol, whoro we were accommodated "where normally 500 native I prisoners were Confined, we had 2000 of-our draft and approximately 1500 >f the Indonesian coulies that had arrived in our convoy. All these coolies were suffering from disease, mostly dysentery (both bacillary and amoebic) ! and a form >f conjunctivitis, Thev were d;/im; in largo numbers, No lavatory i accoramdati >n was available nnd the drains of the gaol were full of blood fr m tho defecation -f tho Indonesians. I called for volunteers to dig latrines -nd we attempted to clear the portion of tho Camp that had beon allotted to ourselves. A meal of approximately 200 grams of rice only was givon to us at ab-ut 1800 h urs, and at 2000 hours I was instructed to leave with my battalion (1000 men) f-r an unknown destination, tfo marched. .,ut, carrying with us approximately 200 grams of rice per mar. and mrchoa about 6 kilometres t.- the railhead where we -n4""" jr terribly crowded c edi- tions and proceeded 124 kilometres toiSFava Komboej There we were met by jop -n^.] j-j^tor transport and driven a further 1̂ 'J kilometros to^SsS^^SlliI where we were accommodated in a Camp which had c mt :.ined Ind aiesians and which wag indescribably filthy. I appealed t) the Japanese Commander for food and was T'13 tfiat none was available. Tho following day tho whole party were set to w> rk to clean up the Camp and at appr xirataly 1600 hours a meal of rice pop nly (kind of porridge) was issued. The following day at 8 a.m. 900 men left the Comp and o ..-inoncod work on tho railway. Ihey had to work extra:,oly carrying sl^UjW, '"'j11-1-- 'nf1" r.ing with four pound hammers i throughout rood or shelte^ 10. Although we were completely inexperienced in this type of work, cur overseers wore a group of Japanese soldiers straight from the Burma railway prisoner .f war gangs and the ,^avj driving c.noiti ns and brutality was V adoptee. The men returned to Camp -.t approximately 9 p.^* and after the T) cunont No, 5605 Page No. 6 privations of the journey from Batavia, they wero utterly exhausted but the Japanese explained that they could n.t give us any further food until ur rati ns arrived. For the next five days, the situation remained un- changed, I personally experienced considerable trouble.with the Japanese lieutenant (1st Lieut. T,JNAK.».) because of the rise in sickness, I ex- JLU I—IMIPM MMIWI N——FC— plained that unless wo received food, n improvement could be expected and the water that we were compelled to drink was extremely bid because it came \L from sulphur springs.j xlt the end of the five days mentioned above, a Jap- anese Colonel whose name I never knew but who was completely responsiole lor the railway construction in l'akan Bar.e at that time, visited the Camp., He was an .Id man with gray hair and had a pronounced stoop and he. told me UadlTTJBSst' do my utril̂ st to promote the welfare of the men under my command. I explained the ration and water situation to him and tcld him that the working hours were much too long. The Interpreter stated th t the Colonel could do nothing about these working.hours but that he would look into the SS f?od situation... (That evening I heard that Lt. Col. SllMMiiOiiJ, with the remaining lOOO men had arrived at a Camp approximately three kilometres away. The following day our food supplies arrived and the day after, I moved with my men on a transfer of all the personnel from my Camp to Lt. Col, SL'J3BJSKOORM's camp and Col. SLuBBEKOORN, with his men, to my Camp. 11. The heavy working parties continued despite a dysentery outbreak which \jy the Allied doctors attributed to the conditions in the Padang gaol.) On the 24th July, 1944, approximately 20 kilometres of rail had been completed and I was instructed to post the first five railway gangs, each comprising 50 men, to the Camp known as Camp three approximately 15 kilometres distant from my Camp in the direction of Padang. The draft left under the Command of Lieutenant DALLAS, 3rd Hussars, and was joined a few days later by an additional 150 British under the command of Captain ARMSTRONG, R.A.S.C., vriao took over command of the Camp on arrival. 3 2. By this time I had arranged for ljjxdted canteen facilities for the loc.l. purchase of extra food when available and I was responsible for Camp 3 As "well" IS1 fay-m/n'r- "Etr. CoT. *3LABBEK00RN's Camp being No. 1 Camp, mine No. 2 Camp and Captain ArU.STRONG's No. 3 Camp, all administered from my Camp. It was ..difficult to. administer these Camps as I was not allowed free- cm of -ction by the Japanese and two thirds, of the personnel under my com- Ttrdfd be ing Dutch with "a"very limited knowledge of the jinglish language. The "medium of expression with the Japanese wflg the Malay language and with the Dutch-iiala^y-Franck.-ar~. iSrigTi ah -an-that .-ordriiu I therefore formed a Camp Committee of the responsible Dutchmen to assist myself and my Adjutant Lieut, der HARTQG, in administering the whole group. 13. At about this time, Captain TT.Ĥ 'K̂ QT, sent for me and explained that he was returning to J . v . , with our Korean guards, and that we would be handed over to the control of Japanese civilians and Japanese guards and would come _directly under the South Manehurian Railway Company. Two" days .afterwards he handed over to Captain 1IYASAKJ, who arrived from Modan accompanied by Lieutenant DOI. MIYASAKI assumed command of all prisoner of war camps in the Pokan Baroe area and DOI was in command of No. 2 Camp. Towards the end of I Document No. 5604 Page No. 7 July, 1944, a further draft of prisoners of war comprising approximately 150 Officers and-100 men arrived in No. 2 Camp from Singapore - these men being tho- survivors of tho draft that left Medan, Sumatra, for Singapore and were toypfldQari- an -route (See report Captain J. G. G0HD0N, R.A. an eye-witness to the incident.) In addition we were informed that further drafts had arrived_ex. Singapore and had opened up two further Camps (Nos, 4 and 5) and these were also placed under my administration. At about K this time,[i was informed that Mo. 2 Camp was to officially the sick Camp, { all fit men to be sent working on the r oilway from the up-country camps and i all sick being returned to me until fit enough to act as replacements or to ! work from my Camp, Wing Commander COFFMY, Senior Medical Officer, and I I _rrde repeated appeals to the Japanese '>Captain.I.IYA3AKI) for improved con- ditions, less work, moro food and medicines, bat all our appeals were of no avail as we were informed that food was not available and Doctor ISHII, the Japanese doctor in charge of P . O C a m p s , told Wing Commander COFFiiY that as medicine was not available we must grow our own herbs and make our own. The less heavy sick were forced to do garden work as lieutenant DOI said that the ration situ-ti ;n would deteriorate duo to lack of transport to convey the rations from B.-JIGKMAiNG, the nearest town approximately 65 kilometres distant. The Allied doctors experienced extreme difficulty in dealing with the heavy number cf sick, at this period about 800,: mostly • —dysentery, malaria, bori-beri, avitaminotic diseases, pellagra and some / tuberculosis, arid in addition, a large number of tropical ulcer cases. Practically no medicine or dressings were available,") (See reports cf Lt. Col. HJKNSSSY, M.A.ii.C. and .7mg Commander COFFJ^Y, R.A.F.) 14. about 17th September, 1944, I was ordered te anticipate the arrival of a further number of seriously sick cases and I heard, frryg fl .Korean ruard that a further draft had been torpedoed between Java and Padang with very i heavy casualties. On approximately the 19th September, 1944, two ambulances arrived with some 20 cases, most of whom died within a day or two, I was told that the remainder were in the gaol at Padang and in the Padang hospital However, the remaining personnel were posted to Camps 4 and 5 -and approx- imately one week later, 150 sick and dying men arrived in the middle of the night in my camp. r,t this period, although we had received no clothing for nearly three years, I was ordered by the Japanese to produce as much cloth- ing as p 3sible for the draft mentioned above as the Japanese explained that as the British had sunk this convey and as the Japanese could not i produce clothing, we must provide it ourselves. This was done to the best L of our ability bat the conditions at Camp 4 wore extremely bad/] The Com- * candor of Camp 4 was Captain KrtQON, R.D.N.M.J. Army .and Captain" RQSIJSH, R.D.N.JJ.I. Army was in charge A Camp 5. 15. | At the end of November, 1944, I was informed that a Camp 6 had been established with the pers nnel whe had left Medan soma eight months previous- ly f jT road c ̂ nstructj on work in t̂iel̂ . North Sumatra, where they had been rron NR-nrirrri hv r> .r-V̂ -nflgn ufa-i <•> ny | T.t niit" i^fo, gf| pffRLish gj Jaking Ja: anesc, and*, -jctre^ely bad type .J (See reports Captain GORDON, R,.,. and Lieut." HiDLaiY, Jeh re v | These men arrived in a very debilitated condition but nevertheless, were put ofr Railway construction work immodlately. Document No. 5604 Page I'!,, 8 Lieutenant MUKA visited my Camp and asked me for a senior British Officer ôa7TorSman3s'T!i,eJ Br it i sh personnel in his Camp, the Dutch being under the command of Captain van der LA. JS, an extremely efficient Dutch Officer now commanding Sumatra under British Administration. I posted Captain GORDON to command the British in No. 6 Camp and he left that day accompanied by Lieut. MUEA. 16. At this period, the general situation regarding prisoners of war was deteriorating rapidly and I again made repeated appeals to fli^anant. DPI for an improvement in the situation. The appeals were all refused, lie .produced statistical reports showing the increasing death rate rising to approximately 80 per month was entirely due to lack of food and heavy work, hllt-T̂*i.aiiiH;r.n .jl merely informed me that he considered that all the Officers should be"made to do more work and that I and my staff ware merely trying to sabotage the Japanese war efforts. These conditions deteriorated further and the death rate rose due to the constant exchange of personnel from tho up country camps who had fallen sick who wore replaced by only semi-fit men from No. 2 Camp. 17. On approximately 16th Juno, 1945- I was informed that tho railway must be finished by tho 15th August, 1945; and that every available man who could walk must be sent out to work. Despite our protests, medical parades were held by the Japanese and the men Yrere forced out to work. The health situation of the whole area was now deteriorating with great rapidity, no medicine was available and the whole group was utterly exhausted and all personnel were extremely depressed due to constant slave driving by tho Japanese guards and railway officials. Increased supervision by the Kempetai (Japanese Secret police) was felt and all sorts of additional dis- ciplinary pressure w-o brought to bear on us."J 18. At this point, tho Japanese guards in Camp 2 ware replaced by Korean guards and the illicit buying of foodstuffs increased and life inside the Camp became more bearable as the + not pro-Ally, was definitely anti-Japanese. This state of affairs continued until our release. 19. 1 submitted a detailed report of war criminals to Major GLOUGH, attached to tha Intelligence Branch, Force 1 3 6 , SJ£AC Headquarters, Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore, and [appended bolow are tha names and description of ! the major criminals responsible for our condition in Sumatra during the 18 | months that I commanded there, j CAPTAIN I.iYASAKI. In charge of all Prisoner of War Camps In the Pakan Baroe j Area. ,A fg± Q££icor of medium height with a pronounced squint. Ha showed j no interest whatsoever in the welfare of the Camps and although fully aware i of the situation, gave us no assistance and was in fact always insolent whon- ! ever approached. A Document No. 5604 Page I'!,, 9 [ 1st LIJDTENANT DPI. Camp Commander No. 2 Camp and Captain MIYASAKT1 s Adjutant. Another fat officer cf medium height. Aged approximately 38 and according to my information, a watchmaker before the war. He was solely responsible for the extreme pressure put upon the men. Ha visited the Camp on numerous occasions and whan groups cf sick men were pointed out to him, he merely laughed nd said we were but prisoners of war. A bestial type who had no control v<:h ts ever ..ver his guards. 1st LIEUTENANT (EOCTOH) 1SHII. Medical Officer all prisoner of war Camps Pakan Baroe Area. A short Japanese Officer wearing glasses, A medical student before the war. Although fully aware of the critical situation expressed himself \nc.:;pab«LA,,,Qf .improving the c^dit^o^, and although ho stated that no medicines .r dressing were available, he had a largo stock t for Japanese consumption and^^er tijo capitulati n produced a very largo ?. quant:" ty of the drugs wo had so urgently requested. SERGE JJT 1CJC. Camp Sergeant No. 2 Camp in January/February, 1944. He was a bostial slave driver wh. toOK. extreme delight in forcing sick mon out to work. He placed all possible restrictions on the C"J-mps and severely pun- ished any infringement of tho most trivial crdor„ He was responsible for stopping all meat issuos to tho Camp for a poriod of aver five weeks. He was a heavily built country typo -f Japanese and was extremely powerful. (Last unit M I N O T A I ) . " " " " " 1 "" "" SERGE.JIT KIT^G.n/A. Cojop Sergeant Mo. 2 Camp from March, 1944 to July, 1944. Was if possible worse than his predecessor. «»as unapproachable and had a particular hatred fc.r the sick and for Officers. Ha took groat delight in forcing sick men ,ut to work and his favorite form of punishment was to mak a man hold an extremely heavy piece of wood above his head for a long period Ho agitated his guards to punish prisoners severely for any infringements of the rules.] At times, he completely stopped all canteen purchases but at other times purchased large quantities of eggs .and beef for the camp - his only redeeming feature. Another extremely powerful country type of Japanese very heavily built .nd of medium height. (Last unit 1QX.SAKIXAI). 1st Class Soldier 3'A.TO. (Last unit ILJOTAI). A schoolmaster before the war. Slim, of medium height, wearing glasses and an extremely narrow face. Made a practice of boating prisoners cf war and making them stand to atten- tion in front j£ him for long periods each time he was -n guard. Named: F,ur-eyes, Blue-Sh5rt. KQKEJ'J GUAfiD I/I,To.• .. (Liyasakitai) was in charge f transport in No. 2 Camp Headquarters. Was .an extremely reckless driver wh) frequently injured POWs thr nigh his car 0ossness. On one occasion, threw four prisoners of war fror his truck due t J oad driving and immediately afterwards made all tho occupants of the truck parade for check. As one of them could not stand properly to attention as ho had been injured in the accident, M .TSLJiA struck him across the face with his torch causing a fracture of the jaw. The P.Q.J, in question was L . a . C . DRIJ-'Eti, H . ^ . F . ii.TSL'J/iA was a tall, slim Korean with a long record of brutality towards prisoners of war. Document No. 5604 Page I'!,, 10 2nd Class SOLDI,Ji FUJI. (La->t Unit: iilNOT.J), A very short, stocky, wide faced Japanese. By far the w rat guard in my experience as a prisoner of war. He took an extreme delight in bestial actions and has a record of beating someone on every occasion that ho came inside the Camp, is in the case ; f Dutch soldier feDLiil, vrtn suffering with an extremely large ulcer on the left .leg which had just commenced to heal, was approached by FUJI, who demanded to kn w why he did not stand up. when a Japanese soldier ap- proached, MDI.iika, showed the ulcer on his leg and was immediately kicked upon it by FUJI. Tho result of this attack was the amputation some three days after and the death of MOLffilA some three weeks later due to weakness and shock. The witness t. this attack is Lieutenant (D-ct.r) KIIJGM1, Dutch Netherlands edical Service. Nicknamed: Tiger of pakan, Baren Flower] ot, Hapole ;n. 1st CI \SS SOLDIifr YUT DA (Last unit KINOTAI). Ono f the guard commanders of No. 2 Camp who assisted FUJI in must of his attacks. Like KITAG/iSiA delighted in making sick men h.Id largo pieces of wood abovo their heads for long periods. A Japanese of oeve average height, heavily built .and wore thick lens glasses. He was responsible for many totally unnecessary brutal attacks. I have the honour to be Sir, lour ebodiont Servant. > (Sgd) P.S. DAVIS 19.11.1945. i Lioc. No, 5601 ^ . C E R T I F I C A T E The undersigned CTY.RLES JOUGLNELL, first Lieutenant R.N.I./., herd of the v.rr Crir.es Section of NITT": IĴ -NBS FORCIS INTELLIGENCE GIRVICL (NLFI3) be in,, first duly sworn on ort> deposes rnd states tv-t t>e annexed report is 0 full, true, complete rnd rccurrtc copy of the original document entitled: "Sworn Statement of V.ILTT.LM ^'.C-EDOVRN, regulrr soldier No. 9 4 8 5 9 , signed: V . Frgedoorn, No. OII /6O94/S 5 wvich document is *> p^rt of V'c official records of tve NLFIS, £IGN/.TUKE: /s/ Carles Jongenecl SEAL B/.TRYL'., June 7tV, 1946. Subscribed rnd sworn to before me K.,' „ de VT.ERD, first Lieutenant, R.N.I.,.. , T"igher Official attached to tve Office of i.ttorney-Gener-rl N.E-,1. Signature: K.A. de Yieerd f Doc. No. 5601 * Prge 2 r f 1 , STATU INT S D1 1-J- RY OF J X -I I IT.' TI ON OF i No. 94859, V/ILLrILH ^.GIBOOEN, Kv.su.lrr soldier 1. Bn. S.r;.K. Artilleryj BNIA i duly sworn strtes: I 28 ycrrs of -gc, of Dutch nrtionrlity, "born rt 2E0LLB holl^nd . "t present I rn living c/o - O.C. L.O.C. BATAVIA. I ws t^ken prisoner in P^d^ng by tvc J-prncse on 17th krich, 1942 ~nd wrs interned in PA DANG BAEEACES. Yk were roved to I earn, w W r<_ we lived for 18 r. onths r.nd left there in Mrrcv 1944 for BLA.NGERDJIEEN• We arrived the re on 11th Mrrch 194*. ELANGIRDJEEEN wrs tve starting point of r rord -9 3ms. jJorip̂ nrVjeV v< ^rd to "build. At the beginning tve rorl r?s not tor- exacting rnd consisted in widening tve existing sr.no trrck, At f-is tine wc worked c minimum of 12 hours per d?yB As we progressed tT-e country becrne rougher "nd the excrv^tion wrs r.orc difficult. During the 7 months it took us to cor pietc.the trsk we.hrd only 15 dertvs.c Tvis wrs cue to tvc f~ct t?»t we v>rd previously'-vr.d r coriprrr.tivcly ersy tine, rt MEDAN rnd thrt we were r specirlly*selected drrft of young men. Officer in cvrrge of this prrty wrs Lt, 1TUEA, who did nothing to prevent V c brutal trer'tnent ^iven 'us by tve ,Ep,rern guards. Mrny tines he witnessed ber. tings r.nd never interfered, Our clothing during tvc period consisted only of r prir of shorts. We no footwear0 j i If-.-st brutrl of the gur.rds were: I IAATSUOKA UK-i.OTO IWA..0T0 I'Jl NIEI • QT-l.K. ' On completion of tho rord in October 1944, we were forced to nrrc>* dry rnd night from Ki s 29 to KQTA TJXNI, r tot" 1 distance of .145..JKES. Tve tine trkc.n wrs 68 hours. The Eorer n;.gurrd in cfrrge of f ls nrrcv fi l?|g-TTQiF¥- ir T?v® judging from '"is be W i o u r seemed to v-ve received orders D o c , N o . 5 6 0 1 to take us back r.s quickly as possible. Each tine a nan fell behind K was beaten by IXTSUOEA with a rattan erne until the r.rn kept up with the n-in party. Corporal CRF IL R.A.F. - Y*cls>rrr. I believe, wr.s one of our cooks -nd r v$ry difficult tine on this march trying to prepare meals during tve brief halts. i-t one stage Ciewe collrpsed rnd was be?ten by IIATSUOKA while be was unconscious. I rnd three others carried vin for r tine rnd we ourselves were beaten by IJITSUOKA because wt could not keep up with the crin p-rty. T>ere were nrny otver beatings during the n r r c h but I wrs too exhausted to notice wre the victims were._J From ICOTA TJ. NE we were trken by lorry to I EDAN, where we stayed for * month before being sent to work on the P/KAN BARU railwry. Mrtsuokr first took c^-r^c of us at Medrn in August 1942. Fe c^ne with us to AT JIT in L?rcv 194-4 rnd took us b?ck to Medrn in October 1944. In about July 1945, when we went to LOGOS cri p t>is guard wrs replaced by r Japanese regular soldier. 1 Others responsible for beatings during tve rrrcv were KANIi 0T0 -nd Y. - NEGArJ A >LSgd. W. FAGFDOORN / D o c . No. 5 6 2 3 Pr.ge 1 r t_._i f.._i c e t c T The undersigned (TV. LLPS JONGINIIL, first Licutenrnt R.H.I./.,, I head of the Tie.r Crimes Section of NETrai,-NDS F0B.CES INTLLLIGINCL SIRVICI-. (NIFIS) being first duly sworn on orth | deposes ~nd strtes tvrt tve annexed report is r fully true, j cor. pitte rnd rccurrte copy of tve original document entitled: Sworn statement of X>rcl, T~endrik, anile KPJJGS1J-N, concerning the execution of POl"Ts who refused to enlist in the J^p army es Fci>o .(Lewe Seg^la. Grip i Camp - Kot^ T j a ne jail, Sumatra., - 3 9 4 6 / R - i » wvicV document is a prrt of f e officirl records of tve | NIFIS. I Signature: j /s/ Cvrrles Jongcneel Ba ta.vi?, June 7, 194-6 subscribed rnd sworn to before re K. /.. dc hrIIRD, first Lieutenr-nt R.N.I.A., T-Tig>cr Officirl attached to tve Office of tve Attorney-General, N.I.I. /s/ K. A. do \7eerd Doc. No, 5623 _ Prge 2 /rS T A_ T T II J . N__T SUI.I/LRY 0? LX/.f IN/.TION OF p K«rel. Hcndrik, Emile KEIJGSI.-J.N, no occuprtion, formerly of i PAD..NG, STJIIATFA, wvo, duly sworn strtess i I -II 42 yesrs of rgc , of DUTCTT nrtionrlity, born rt EENKOELEN, SULATRA. I hrve no permanent rddrcss; rt nt-esent I ft. staying rt 0RANJESCr00L, 1'EDAN, I wrs tr.ken prisoner of wrr by the JAPANESE p. m y *t j PADANG PANDJANG on 17 Iter 42 rnd eventurlly interned rt LATE I SEG...LA crrp in June 42., In Mry 43, I crnnot re-cll the exret drte, the J*p--ntse crip coi.mpnder I.IYASAKI told wc 1 prisoners cf wrr thrt w^rstijS-scuan hrvc to.xnli&t in £ht JAPANESE rmy rs faffi On 29 Mry 43 p.bout 17.00 hours rTcutenr nt "SUSUKXdF~thc GUNSEIBU XOTA TJANE> rnd r. KII PI I officer fron BRASTAGI, wvose nrme I do not know, arrived in the. crrip. /II t^c prisoners hrd to .anxTde^ When we were lined up, the interpreter IWASAKI told us tvrt we were given five minutes to d f M r) r jrrVr tv r r- vj r t i m 11 ri , n ] tVc J/ P. NESI Arr v oy r̂gf... When tvis peiiod hrd elrpsed tve prisoners were divided in three groups: Ac those rejected i.edicrllv unfit. B, t1-e volunteersC. those wvo refused to enlist. I myself wrs wit" the second r-:r-o-un. Tho nr.mes of the people in my group were recorded5 rfter this everybody wrs rllowed to return to their qurrtersa Amongst those who refused were S orgernt CROES 5 R „ N.I.A. " STOLZ Privrte WOLFF Regulrr serernt IL0£S_..>Pd; -lso refused but hrd beer arrested previously, I do not know why. fin PQ V.ry rhrvnt. Vnyr^ those WVQ refused to enlist were trken to K01V T J A N I bv JAPATTFF.T- M R ' T M N M R E S J : W R * I know this b'ecruse I vjps driver to I TYASAffT t.K. crmp contender, rnd hrd to diive him to KOT;. TJ'.NE with SUSUKI, the unknown I^LPII officer rna the. prisoners- TL'e prisoners were locked in KOTA' TJ.'NI jr.il, Scrgernt CROES. sergeant STOLZ, sergernt VOSS m d privrte WOLFF wert. Jhqurid h m d m d foot r f r P to the villrge square (rlocn-^loou) "nc" t^ere publicly svown to tve populrtion wvo hr.d been exiled tUrc E>y T*T J.' ft HEBE*1 They"were executed r t r bout 'AJ ,UU roiffs^?'T.r'y j« i're . nonT?1rt.1nn to t ontr py ortiCT nf t>f .!. PJSTSE. As I.IY.S/KI: s driver I hrd to stmd in t>e front line. VÔ -S v;rs rsKd his 1-st <-ish, Te -nsw.cred he wnted to die with the LLTCTT nrtionrl flrg wrapped round vis bedy. *Tis request .. wrs >i;rnj&lm VOSS then r.dclressed the rudienco in Mrlry, fclVing his opinion of t.vt- .7; P yrflr. rhi:sin- thrr. Wren he vrd finished t>e JV.PANESr wanted to blindfold him but he declined spying: "I rr. ̂ DUl'Q^^N m d not, rfrrid to die." o C , N o . 5 6 2 3 Pvgc 3 x'̂ e ICI-i-PEI officcr in chprge of tK. firing squad tven pointed "is rifle *t_V0£S -nd fired twice, VOSS wrs not killed * nd cried out: "Long live the Cuecnl" T>e officer then put the rifle to VOSS' herd rnd shot him derd. aaet KTMPfj officer then tried to .beherd Sergeant CROLS with v i s sy.'ord. Fe missed however rnd * it CF.OFS on tve shoulder. VTe.tvtn drew his revolver ^nd svot CROiS in the herd. ;.ftc.r this ",OLFF .̂ nd STOLZ were sh«t by this same officer. I cannot remenber exactly how t>is happened but tvis so called execution was in nv opinion m^y^er* To tve best of ny knowledge KXYASAKI rnd S US UK I were ^lso present. K. T'. F. KRIJGSMAN Signed I certify that I duly translated tve above surmary to tve witness in M s 'own language, prior to vis signature wvich appears above. Signed E. W. SAYERS Lt. Translator J.J.A. V:.N DE LANDE laj. SV."0LN BEFORE ME No. 4 vjrr Crimes Investigation Term (SE/.C) * DOOUKEM! 5646 P aS e 1 OFFICIAL WRIT 2796/E This day, Monday December 24, nineteen hundred forty five, appeared before me, Meester W. 3eun, Substitute Public Prosecutor at the Court of Justice at Medan, in person: A. E. FRIBS-ROHRBOBIT to be heard as a witness in the case against a suspect, probably named DCBUTSJI and a second su.spect not to be mentioned by name yet, suspect of Indonesian nationality. After witness has declared to have known both the suspects before the deed of which they are now suspected, not to be related to them by blood, nor in law and not to be in their employment, witness answers the questions put to her as follows: What is your surname and your Christian Prins, born Rohrborn, names?_j_ Augusta, Sleonora How old are you and what is your I am 43 years of age, without profession? profession. Where do you live? Before Japanese invasion I lived at the rubber-estate Soengei Poetih, Calang, now I stay at Medan, 3 Macfeaylaan. As is supposed that witness will not appear at further investigations, she now swears the oath according to her religious principles, that, she will, as a witness speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and answers the questions put to her as follows: In the mont. of September 1944, Mrs. Bikens and I still occupied the function of camp-managers. The supply of food which the Japanese gave us was extra-ordinarily bad. For two and a half months we had been given neither sugar nor fat. The official rations, so we were informed by the Japanese, contained: rice for grown up people, 200 grams per head daily and for children 100 grams. Vegetables, 50 gr. per head daily. In reality we got _ 140 gr. rice for grown ups and 80 gr for children. Vegetables 20 gr. 1,?e complained continuously to the Japanese commandant about this treatment and when we got no result, we asked for an inter- view with the officer, TAPAKA, who was occupied with the food-supply. He said, however, that he could not do this. But one day, whenTTanaka came to visit our camp, he talked to him about this. After he was gone / our DOCUMENT 5646 Page 2 our Japanese commandant was so furious that he struck "both of us with his open hand. The discontentment ahout the shortness of food increased daily in the camp. The women threatened to "break out of the camp to fetch it themselves. We proposed a hunger demonstration, whereupon the thinnest women accompanied hy their division-leaders went to the Japanese guard. There we showed them to the Japanese commandant and said to him, that he could now see for himself the results of his hunger-system. We then demanded in the name of the whole camp for the supply of the official rations. The commandant promised us that he would go to Medan and see what he could do for us. When, however, there came no improvem nt we asked for permission to obtain food from people outside, hy means of barter, but this was refused bluntly by the commandant. This went on until middle of November and the discon- tentment increased more and more. In order to put off demonstrations which as we knew, could not be held in check much longer, we made a proposal to the inmates of the canrp, to wait until November 25, 19^4, before breakin. out. We hoped vainly that on this date improvement should have come. The camp accorded with this and then we went again to the commandant. We informed him that we could not prevent the inmates from breaking out if no improvement cnme on the next supply of rations, which was due on November 20. We drew his attention to this: that he would certainly come into "Soesah" (trouble) with Medan, whereupon he replied that we were '̂ Eapala •boesoek1' (bad heads) but when we asked that he should name other managers, he said that this was not allowed by Medan. At last he promised me that our request for more food would be answered on November 20. The rations arrived but the a m g ^ ^ YS^ same as before. Again we went to the commandant and/'visite'd him daily with our complaints. Each time he gave us promises for next day, each time without any result and so came November 25. Then we agreed that from each block-division some women in total 40 persons leave the camp on Sunday-afternoon November 26. However, people did not abide by the agreement and thus the next day about 3 o-1 clock 386 women left out of carap„ To be ahead of events we went to the Japanese commandant and we saw him looking at the departure. He asked what this meant, insulted us again as '̂ lapala Boesoek'1 and ordered us to fetch the women back at once. If they would return at once he would not mate a "pakara1' (case). So we went out of the camp but each time we asked some women to go back we got the answer that they would not do this before they settled their business. The Japanese and Heiho's who had gone outside too, got no results. Later it appeared that someone had telephoned the M.P. at Kaban Drjah§.from the Japanese hospital situated across the road and from where the breaking out had DOCUMENT 5646 Page 3 been observed. About nine o'clock in the evening all were bafk again. Before this the first and second suspect had arrived with a Japanese whom we know by name of TOKASB., Mrs. liikons and I were called in, whereupon the first euTpect- interrogated us with the assistance of an interpreter who EW'<S When we had told him the real cause of the breaking out, he accused us of having incited the women to it and he boxed our ears with his open hand which was not very painful. We had just been sent away to our block: when we were called again because, as the commandant informed us the M.P. from Kedan had arrived. We were ordered to line up the women who had been away. Thereupon the whole camp came to the office. The Japanese understood that not all women could have been guilty of disobeying the orders so that what they saw was but a demonstration. One of the Japanese got so furiousj I cannot remember who it was, that he struck 1 ith the iron of a golf-club, on the herd so that a little wouP4 occurred that bled slightly. After about a quarter of an hour the women were dismissed but they protested when they saw that Mrs. EIKEI7S and I had to remain. Again we were asked for the reason of the breaking out and our part in this, whereupon we naturally answered as before. Meanwhile, the second suspect struck me with his open hand about ten times in the face and stumped us on the back which was very painful. Then we got the order to write down all names of the guilty women and to send him this list next day. At about 3.30 o'clock in the night the nerveracking show was over and totally exhausted we went to bed after we had asked all the block-leaders to write down the names of the women who lived in the camp. We took these lists at 7 am the next day, 27th to the commandant. There were all persons who had been present the evening before; also the block-leaders had been called. The latter were heard in different rooms by tho M.P. and from everywhere we heard cries of pain, while Mrs. likens and I together with the block leaders whose turn had not come yet sa^ waiting in a room next to that in which first suspect together with the scconcl suspect led the interrogation. When I was sitting in the waiting' room I heard that a certain moment that Sister Schuddeboom a nurse of about 50 years old, was treated so cruelly in the next room that I wanted to enter that room but was prevented by a few Japanese who guarded the open door. When I heard Sister Schuddeboom leaving I asked permission to enter and to be heard by the first suspect. When I entered I saw on the table at which both of the suspects sat, a curtain rod of about 1 m. long and •' 2-̂- cm. thick which I supposed was used on Sister Schuddeboom. This on enquiry proved to be true. I protested severely against this maltreatment, whereupon first suspect said that further investigations would be stopped if wo would plead guilty on our own accord. I rotorted sharply that the Japanese were guilty themselves, which outraged first suspect so much that he struck ne about six times with the wooden curtain-rod so hard on my back, shoulders and nock that the stick broke. Meanwhile, the hearing of the block-leaders was finished and about six o'clock wc wore sent away with many insults. I had to be supported because I could not walk without help. My body ached every- where, but tho stroke on my back of my neck had been the most painful. Under ordinary circumstances I should have been unable to do my daily work for some days. In the evening the Japanese called me again, but I sent the message that I was unable to walk and could not cone. Early next morning, 28 November, 1S44, Mrs. likens and I were again ordered to come to the Japanese office together with the ladies: J. Vijzelman, D.tteen Bloemendaol, Netty Hoots, Mody Claser, Hetty van deE.ee and J. Scharenguivol. When we wore all present Mrs. likens and I were driven by car and the others by bus to tho Penitentiary at Kaban Djahe. When wo arrived there our coats and hairpins if we had any were taken away, whereafter we were locked up. Mrs. likens and I each in a very small cell and the others together in a large one. My c 11 and, as I was told later, Mrs. likens' also, was without light or ventilation; the floor was moist with urine, which former occupants had left and the walls were smeared with faeces. Afterwards I heard that these cells wore destined for lunatics on transit. There was no bed and wo had no sanitary toilet. Next morning November 29, 1S44 I was taken by tho jailor (toekang koentji) from my c<ll and taken to a room in the outer building at the back of the prison, lirst and second suspects wore present. I saw lying on the table all kinds of cudgels, belts and whips and on the floor was a coal-fire with irons. Seeing these objects I understood this to be the torture-chamber. Very little light came through the window. Again first suspect asked me the same questions as before. Indicating the weapons he threatened me to torture if I kept refusing to plead guilty. Finally, when he found that even his sweet vrords failed to bring results he made me stand on a chair, after he had tied my wrists tightly together behind my back. He tied a rope which ran over a pulley, right over my head to the cord round my wrists and pulled at the other end until I could hardly reach, the seat of the chair with the points of my toes. Each time he say; that I lowered somewhat in the joints of my shoulders so that I could get a little more support for the seat of the chair with the points of my toes he drew the rope a little higher. Meanwhile, he stood before me and asked if I would plead guilty. Each time when I replied: "Nippon salah" (the Japanese are wrong), he beat me with a rubber stick very hard on my back which he did more than ten times. / After > . ;3H 5545 Page J •after about ten minutes I shouted to him "Officier blanda tida tahoe ini matjem" (vhi'te officers do not "behave like this), he suddenly let mo go i. the jerk caused me unbearable pain. Directly after this my nose bled profusely. Two Indonesian policemen were called and these men supported me back to my cell, giving evidence of their pity and disapproval. When I came to the cell, the jailer opened the door and this brute pushed no so hard in my back that I fell forwards on the dirty floor. I could not get up and lay there for a long time, totally numbed. At about 2 o'clock I was again taken by the jailer to the torturo- chambor. Again I was suspended, standing on the chair and again first suspect put the questions he had asked me innumerable times before. He did not beat me and after some time, somewhat shorter than in the morning, he let go the rope, meanwhile, the head of the M.P. had entered. He stood before nic and in a fierce voice asked if I had anything to say abou'c the Japanese officers. I replied that I had not referred to them, but to Netherlands officers, whereupon he slapped my face and ordered me to follow him to his office. On arriving there he ordered a typewriter tr> be brought and ordered me to typo out the names of the women who had been out of camp some days before, I told him that I was unable to do this because of the awful swellings on my hands and the unendurable pain in my arms and body. Then he told me to dictate the names to an Indonesian guard who was also present. As well as I could remember I dictated all the names of the women who lived in the camp with which I was occupied until 3 o'clock in the night, then I was taken back to the cell. For tho first time since our arrival we got some food. Concerning me this consisted Pi- precisely counted 73 grains of maize. This I cried out to Mrs. Eikens, who informed me in the sane way that she had counted 78 grains. We got no water. Early next morning, November 30, 1944, I was taken out of my coll to the office of the head cf the M.P. By use of second suspect, who acted as an interpreter, first suspect interrogated me about the sane points as before, in the presence of the head of the M.P. and a certain IAKASE, They did not maltreat me. After some time I was told that they could have ne shot as this was the punishment for escape according to international agreement. Thereupon, I was brought back to the cell and I saw Mrs. Eikens being taken away. She also told me afterwards that she had been condemned to death. About an hour later we were put on a bus together with the other ladies and taken ba.:k to the camp. On arrival there we had to wait, standing before the guardroom of the heiho's. Mrs. Eikens and myself could not keep upright, broken as we were, and at last we were allowed to sit down on the grounds. About one hour later Mrs. Eikens and myself, also Mrs, DOCUMENT 5646 Page 6 Mrs. ten Bloemendaal and I were transported to a 'bungalow of the Anglo-Dutch, "the Bantcug'-. The other prisoners were taken hack to the camp. We were taken to a large room where we expected to be shot. We were placed with our faces t-3 the wall, Mrs. ten Bloemendaal "between Mrs* Eikens and me and with our hands crossed behind our backs. I remarked to my companions that "I do not like it", to which Mrs. ten Bloemendaal rep".iod that she wondered why we were not crying. Then we heard that thr^s Japanese entered and standing behind us opened the locks of their rifles. A fourth Japanese entered and roared at the soldiers in a theatrical way a command to fire so we thought. Waiting for the end and nothing happened. Mrs„ ten Bloemendaal could not withhold her curie sity and looked secretly back. "They cannot fire, "because the dust caps arc still on the barrels", she whispered. The fourth Japanese gave another command, a soldier struck us onco, wo were ordered to turn and taken to a room where we saw the block- leaders. Then the three of us were tak^n back to camp, from where we were daily taken to the "Bonteng" to be heard on the declarations of the block-loaders who X';ero kept there for several more days. During ono month I kept the black bruises on my neck, arms, back ana thighs. During ton days I could not move my arms, nor use my hands. Other people had to wash me. It was quite impossible to do my work as I was exhausted. When Mrs. Bikers* told her story, it appeared that because of the same stubbornness she had met with the same treatment. She had also black bruises which she showed me. During three wooks she could not do anything as a result of the ill- treatment. Bead aloud, presented to, approved of, persisted in and signed. The sworn witness Signed The Substitute Public Prosecutor ii„ 3. PR IKS Signed: Mr. V. Beun and for certified true copy. DOCUMENT 5645 C E R T I F I C A T E The undersigned CHARLES JONJEEEIL. Contain Roll.I.A., head of War Crimes Section of HETEERLANDS ECHOES INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NEEIS) being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the annexed statement is a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original Dutch document, e n t i t l e d ; Sworn statement of Mrs. A„ E. PRINS, nee Rohrborn, drawn up hy W. BETJN, LL.D. Judge-advocate MEDAN, dated 24th December 1945, No. 2796/R, which original document j* a part of the official rccords of the NEEIS. Batavia, August 28, 1946. ( S E A L ) ( )) ( /s/ Ch. Jongeneel ) Subscribed and sworn to before me, K. A, DE WEERD, LL,D,, Major Artillery R.N.I.A., Senior Official attached to the office of the Attorney-General N.E.I, ,/s/ E. A. de Weerd ( ) ( S E A L ) 9oc. Kb. 5635 L X ' ' Page 1 , F \ c : T _ ? 1 c A T 3 The undersigned 311 JILT3 J0HG3EJ3L, first lieutenant H.N.I.A., head of the War Crimes Section of N-IEH'-RÎ NDS F0RC.3S 3HT3LLI. GE2TGE SERVICE (NEII3) being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the annexed report is a full, true and complete and accurate copy of the original document entitled: • Sworn rep.-vrt on atrocities committed by the Japanese M.P. at Sibo? ga, made by A. SIFSER, Superintendent of Police Is. Class, Assistant Public Prosecutor, dated 24 December 1945, signed SUKOR*. 0IV8(>57/S. authentic copy of which document is a part of the official records of the HEFXS. SIGNATURE | 1 I BATAVIA, June 7th 1946. i — SEAL 1 Subscribed and sworn to before me, K.A. De WEERD, first lieutenant ; R.N.I.A., Higher official attached to the Office of the Attorney- General N.E.I. /s/ K. A. de "̂ eerd jf. I Doc. No. 5635 J?age 2 / — 0H/505F/.3 IRO JU3TITIA \/ — ^SUBJECT: Report on atrocities committed by the Japanese T'.F. at Sibolga. REPORT The undersigned, A, Suyker, before the Japanese occupation, a p̂lirtP Simp.rintendent 1st class. Superintendent of the Country Police, i and at the same time, Chief cf the Residency preventive force, in the Residency of TAPANCELI, stationed at SIBOLGA, hereby declares to have suffered the following ill-treatment at the hands of the Japanese Sibolga Military Police personnel. On k Aug, 1943, I wee fetched from the SOERGEI 3ZNGKQL Internment Camp in a car by the Commander and Sub-commander of the Sibolga M. P. Th t night I was detained at the prison at 1'ICAN. IJpon arrival at SIBOLGA on 5 August, I was looked up in the pantry of the E.M.S. V / Manager's house, then the M.P. office^ This pantry had been rebuilt into a detention room, I was given a pillow and a mat. In the morning of the 7th of August I was interrogated by a MJP „ Sergeant, who was assisted by a Japanese Interpreter who spoke Malay well. The M.P. wanted to know what secret instructions (perintah rehasia) had been passed on by me to the Native members of the Civil Service and to Police officials and to the Assistant TTedana cf Police, active with the Residency preventive forces, before the Japanese occupation. / M Furthermore they wanted to know gor-.which secret reason (maksoed rahasia) our army in SUvIkTRA had made practically no resistance during the invasion of the Japanese -'rmy, and also in which places our army had left secret radio-transmitters. I was considered to know this data. As I answered these questions put to me in the negative the Japanese Sergeant, ssruck me a blow with the flat of his hand in my face, whereupon I stood up to ward off the next blow. Now this sergeant tried to throw me on the floor by means of pulling me at the collar of my shirt end lifting me over his hip, in which he did not succeed. He then ordered me to squat, at the same time holding a heavy arm-chair with stretched arms above my head. Then I succeeded in doing so for some moments the Japanese interpreter pushed the chair, resulting in one of the legs hitting my face, and causing a heavy bleed- ing wound off the right jaw bone. A scar is still visible at the moment. Furthermore the interpreter kicked me on my right shinbone, causing a wound. As I was not strong enough to keep the chair above my head, the Sergeant thrashed me with a piece of rope and subsequently with a wide leather belt. After this I was brought back to my cell; my wounds were not piven any attendance at all. On Sunday 8 August in the morning, I was again interrogated by the same Sergeant interpreter. I was asked the same questions which I again answered in the negative. Hereupon I ws.̂ ordered to strip. Both the Japanese also undressed except for their pants. In the bathroom my hands were tied on my back, whereas my feet also were tied just above the anklets. After being stretched out on my back, the Sergeant placed himself with his bare feet en my thighs, so as to prevent my turning over, A pieca of cloth was then put on my face, after which the interpreter assisted by another M.P. Sergeant, who, in the meantime had entered the bathroom, commenced to continuously pour water on my head with a small bucket, During this illtreatment, called "Mandie« by the Japs, the Sei^geaat standing..021 my thighs, pre.saed.Jiy, swollen belly with his foot, several times, as a result of which I i vomited water and also food. Owing to the grating over the ribbed tiles, my elbows and knees were badly chafed and the skin stripped off. The above mentioned illtreatment continued until there was a knock on the bathroom's door probably from the* M. P. Sub-commander. Hereupon my hands and feet were loosened and J was ordered to lie down on the tiles of the open back veranda of the M.r. office, entirely naked, and in full view of the natives present. Doc. No. 5635 "Page 3 After a quarter of an hour (shivering on account of the cold) I was ordered to dress and vras brought back to my cell. The wounds resulting from this ill treatment were not attended to. On Tuesday, 10 August, I ® s again given the same treatment in the bathroom by the interrogating Sergeant with the assistance of the Japanese interpreter. 1 "•"hen I informed them in the course of this ill treatment of an instruction effected by the Assistant "'edana before the Japanese occupation, my feet were untied and I was taken to the room in which I had been interrogated, my hands still tied upon my back and was forced to sit down on the stone floor entirely naked, beside the 'writing- table at which the interrogating Sergeant was sitting. After this interrogation I was brought back to the cell. On Monday, August l6, in the afternoon I was transported by car from the F. P. office to the prison at Sibolga ard locked up in a cell (a 3 personsono). On August 25 I was interrogated once more at the W.1 . office concerning the presence of .secr&i. radio-transmitters in TAEANOELI. During this interrogation the sub-commander of the M.P. present, threatened to have me "Mandied" once more. However, I was not ill- treated this time. After this date I was interrogated no more. After having been imprisoned for about 3 months I was transported by bus to Medan and locked up in the prison together with the resident van der HEYDEN and the Controller VI3SER, who had been brought to SIBOLGA in the month of August 1943 and who had been locked up in a cell next to mine. During the trip from SIBOLGA to TAROETOENG our hands were tied behind our backs. After having been untiedfcsr a short time we were again- tied by means of a rope around both upper arms. This took place in front of the M.f. office at TAROETQENG. 9 November 1943» W e were transferred to the prison situated at the electricitcits-eg, I'edan and from this place after no further question- ing, were transported to the internment-camp BEL A. AIT ESTATE on the 10th of November, [it is worth mentioning: 1. That the illtreatments inflicted upon me took place on order of and with the permission of the Sub-commander of the M.P. at S7BOLGA. 2. That the wounds as a result of the illtreatment inflicted upon me, stated earlier in this re ort i.e. inflarrmation of the ear were attended only after repeated requests and only after some ulcerations had appeared. 3. That the food issued to us in the SlBOLGa p ri S o n ^as insufficient as regards both quality and quantity. 4. That no opportunity was given us during daytime to be aired. 5. That opportunity was given us during day-time only after repeated requests (once every 3 or 4 days) and then only after sunset.j 6. That I will recognise the M.P. personnel, mentioned in this report, when confronted with them. I might add a statement of other atrocities committed by the Japanese Military Police at SIBOLGA viz: During my internment in the SIBOLGA prison 3 Dutch military men were brought in by thr Japanese soldiers in the afternoon of the 15th April 1942 and locked up together in one cell. Before entering the cell Doc. No. 5635 "Page 4 these men were ordered to take off their shoes w ich then usere divided amongst the native personnel of the Japanese. ''e internoes were for- bidden to contact with these military men. In the evening the above mentioned men were taken out of the prison for interrogation and brought back late that same night. On 16 ^pril 1942 between 12 and 1 o'clock pm. (we internees at the moment were locked up in our cells) a number of armed Japanese entered the prison and had the 3 ^en put into iron transport-handcuffs by the native prison guar Is, who subsê uentl;'' took them away with them. They ware transported 0.1 an open freight truck in the direction of Padang Sidompocan. About half an hour later a Japanese soldier entered the prison and returnedthe iron transport-handcuffs. That same afternoon we learned from the prison personnel and from other reliable police constables who were in oiiarge of our guarding, that these 3 military men "Jiere executed on the beach near the 3.P.M. works at SIBCLGA. It is said that afterwards the bodies were beheaded and thrown into the sea* According to a statement of the jailer the names of the above mentioned military men were: HYSSJH ( n o n -commissioned 1st. Lt»; TH^CNISSiiK VAN L3EU.7EN He stated that he had entered these names into the prison register, •/e have not come to know for which reason these military men ware killed. I did learn however that the native police officer JANN33 HO31A OEROK at the same time engaged at the country-police detachment at SIBOLGA is said to have acted as an interpreter at the hearing of these men, which hearing took place on 15 April. The N.C. 1st lieutenant GSFtHIT HYK HHvSSN, who is still missing, I recognised from a photograph shorn to me by Mrs. HY3KEN as a picture of her husband. He was one of those military men executed by the Japanese at SIBOLG-ii on 16 April 1942. On a certain day between 20 and 30 April 1942, I do not recollect the right date, the 1st lieutenant (infantry) and the Arny Medical Officer 2nd class DINGEI.LoNS T;ere brought to the SIBOLGA prison, where I was also interned. Both officers wjo had come from -'-CHmK were caught by the natives in the neighbourhood of BAR023 and handed over to the Japanese. On their arrival at the prison the above-mentioned officers had to take off their uniforms and these were kept by the jailer. After that they were clad in the well known brown prison clothes. First Messrs. DEvl^r-iiS and HATH3S were interned together with us in one cell, but ner^ taken out next morning and locked up-in a cell in which were already present 5 British or Australian Military men, who at the occupation of Singapore had succeeded to escape to i .tiDANG via R3NGAT. Sailing along the coast these men were caught by the Japanese in the neighbourhood of SIBOLGA. At 5 o'clock in the aftern:.on ©f the day on which Messrs. DBTGUolB, MATHiS and the 5 Britishers were locked up together, a number of Japanese armed with rifles appeared and took Messrs. DiHGJUi'lS and I1-T1I3S with them. They were dressed in prison clothes. Later on we learned that Messrs. DING3LL..NS and -ETHICS and also the 5 Britishers were put in a prawoo at SIBOLGA and were executed on the beach near AGH35N Residenr.y in full view of the natives. During my stay at the SIBOLGj, prison (August 16 November 18, 1943) I learned from a police constable who had to guard me, but whose name I do not remember, that above-mentioned military iten had been executed on one of the islands in the bay of SIBOLGA. Doc. No. 5635 "Page 5 According to a narrative told by two K.T.M. boatmen who for a long time after the occupation • ere active as a commander on small cargo-ships sailing along 3111 .TSui's '/est coast, Messrs. D3N0E2 MJSB, Mt.TH33 along with the 5 Britishers had been executed on the island of 3EIBANG. During my staj- at the SIBILGA prison (l6 August - 8 November, 1943) for interrogation by the Military Police, I learned from a police con- stable who had to guard me, that after our departure on the 4th of Hay to SIAtTTAR, another lieutenant of our army was caught by the Japanese, also coming from ACH3SN, Tfc3 name of that lieutenant he did not know. This police constable however told me, that above mentioned lieutenant had behaved bravely during Iris hearing at the TIJP • He did amongst other things, adopt a threatening attitude and challenged the Japanese to fight Mm, According to the statement of this police constable thjs officer was taken away by prahoo and never seen again. It was suspected that he has been drowned by the Japanese or executed at one of the islands in the bay of SIBOLGA. \ [~I have drawn up t'/is statement under the oath of office sworn at the beginning of my service to my country, concluded and signed on the 2irth of December 1945* The Superintendent of Police 1st Class Assistant Public xrosecutor, Signed STJYE3R Por copy conform The Public Prosecutor to the Court of Justice Medan. Signed W. BZUN y Document No. 5636 The undersigned CH.J3L.iSS JONa,<KESL, first Lieuten-nt R . N . I . h e a d of the »/ar Crimes Section of NETHERLANDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NiFIS) being first duly sworn on oath depo es and states that the annexed report is a full true, complete and accurate copy of the original document entitled: "Sworn St •'torn, art of -TILIUS CO.'.NELIS TEERLINK, Fen stoned Official of the S.S. at Pal~.-a.bang, signed J.C. Teerlink." No. 0M/8204/S., which document is • part of the official records of the NEFIS, SIGNATURE /a/ Ch. Jongeneel SiiuiL B -T.J/i;., June 7th., 1946. Subscribed -nd sworn to bsfoxa me K.,.. de rfgiSffi), first Lieutenant R.N.I..-.., Higher Official attached to the Office of the Attorney-General N.E.I. /s/ K. .. de Veord / f p / 9 * C B R T I F I C ; I E 0M/8204/S. Page No. 1 Document No. 5636 0M/8204/S. Page No. 2 fS T T 3 M E N T SUMM ,RY OF EX'JUNCTION OF TEESLINK, JULIUS CORNELLS, Occupation: Pensioned Official of the S S at P/iEMB.JJG. ,ddress: 21, SOPHIEL^N, 1 .LA3 .NG. who, duly sworn, states: I am 60 years of age, of DUTCH nation-ait; (SUR.SI.JJ), born at Meester CuRNELIS, JI;. I have no permanent address and I .am now living at 21 S0PH1SL'. JJ, Palembang^J I was on my estate (a small agriculture con- cession) at T. J© JONG KJLiJG 14 May 4 4 - 8 June 44. (On 8 July 44 I was put in prison of the K3ESCB0 ~t T.J©JONG K..K JIG. -fter three days I was inter- rogated by an officer of the GUNSEI K..U (the interrogator told me this name) I was suspected of espionage and .anti-J.apanese-prppaganda. I denied this, "" was NOT guilty. The Japanese officer ordered four Indonesian fv policemen, who we're m"Tne room to tie my hands behind my back with a rope and to put iron handcuffs on my hands. I was laid down on a bench (22 inches wide) on my back, my handcuffed hands under my body. I was tied on this bench with a rope from top to toe. Tho Japanese interrogator and two other Japanese officers, who also were in the investigation room, pressed burning cigarettes upon my .rms - the scars ire still visible. They ordered the policemen to press a piece of cloth upon my nose .and to pour water out of a container into my mouth. 1 had to swallow because I could NOT breathe, xifter approx. 10 minutes swallowing I fell unconscious. I was lying on this bench for four hours. The Japanese officers went awayTj I do not know their names ,but should recognise them from a photograph. One had cauliflower ears. More information "-bout these officers could be given by the CHINESE driver employed ^ by them, na,.ed KIM TJO JvT, living at present at T.J©JONG K.JLHG. Qhen the Japanese went away, I was beaten for approx. g hour by the four Indonesian / policemen. They used a rottan stick (1 inch di metre). They beat my left f thigh in turnTj The names of these policemen are M.CPLOED-P.u©IOJ..OOEB-; S.JiSOEDIN. JuCHICjD was the man in charge of all the Indonesian policemen in the prison. He -was very cruel, was used by the Japanese as -an interpreter, interrogator and when the J p-uaese were NOT present, he gave orders to the policemen to torture us. I should recognise the policemen of this prison from photographs, -ftor this mistreatment, I was brought back to my cell. In my cell were 8 Indonesian criminals. The cell was 2 x 4 metres. Manjr times I was called at 10 o'clock at night and brought to the interroga- tion room, where M.CHMOED interrogated us. I had to sit down on the floor. •/Jhen M.'.CHMOED was NOT satisfied with my answers, he ordered the other police- men to pour a bucket in my mouth and I had to look for several hours at the bright light of on electric bulb (60 '. j'att). When the little stick dropped out of my mouth, M.CHMOiD ordered the policemen to beat me, with a stick. \ (Hereby a list of all the torturings which M'.CI-LXED ordered the other police- men to do to me during the investigations: X to be- t me with a stick on my head 2. to burn my moustache with a burning cigarette 3. to put burning tobacco under my nose, so that the smoke came into my nose and I started to cough whereupon I was beaten 4. to beat my feet with a heavy stick many times 5. to make me Kneel down fer half an hour. In the hollow of my knees, the policemen put a heavy pole ana pressed this pole downwards with the whole weight of their bodies 6. to tie me for 24 hours on my back upon a bench. I had to look in the light of an electric bulb. «/hen I closed my eyes M.CHMOED ordered the policeman to pour water over my face, until I opened my eyes again. Document No. 5636 QU/S201+/S. Pag a No. 3 The Kernpei Tai officers of this prison agreed with this torturing and came sometimes at night time when we were tortured by liJ3HM)ED and the oth policemen, in the interrogation room. They looked at us and said to li.GHIaOiD "Go on" - or - "All right". Signed J. C. TEfiHLINK I certify that I duly translated the above summary to the witness in his language prior to his signature which appears above. L. K. van dor HOBST Interpreter Sworn before me M £ D'ASTUGUES- —] OC No, A -Ajar Crimes Investigation Team (SJL1C) t)rCf No, 5632 Prgc 1 CERTIFICATE The undersigned CHARLES JONGENEEL, Crptrin R.N.I.A., bead c f Wr.r Crimes Scctirn c f NETHERLANDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SiEiVICI (NEFISUac ing first duly swcSn H'n 6fith deposes rnd strtes" thrt tve annexed statement is r. full, true, complete ^nd rccurrte ccpy c f the original Dutch document, entitled J Sworn statement c f LO DJIEN SIOE, drrwn up by J. G. SENDEES, Crptrin R.N.I.A., dated 6th Hay 1946 Nc. 5049/R which document is r prrt rf the cfficirl records r f the NEFIS. Brtrvir., 2 8 t h August 1946. /s/ Chrrles Jungeneel SEAL Subscribed rnd swern tc before me K. A. DE WEERD, LL.D., Major Artillery R.N.I.A., Senior cfficirl r.ttr.ched tc the office of the Attorney Generrl N.E.I. /s/ K. A. de V/ecrd. Doc. No. 5632 Page 2 OFFICIAL RECORD OF INTERROGATION A f f i d a v i t Today, Monday May 6, 194-6, appeared before ne, Joseph Godfriod Benders, Captain for Special Services cf the Royal Netb. Indies A m y , Head of the Netherlands War Crimes Investigation Team, Singapore, holding session at de Souzastreet 9? Singapore, a person who states to be: Names LO DJIEN SIOE Grade: A m y No.: Unit: Civil Occupation: Private physician (practitioner) Address: Singapore; 257 d Boekit Tinah Road Future Address: Sourabaya Born at: Madioen on July 22, 1911. * * * * * * * * * * * Witness promises to tell the truth and nothing but the truth and replies as fellows, after having declared that he persists with the data given above, to the questions put to hirio 1 0 . . . . 0 August 14, 1943, during my furlough at TJOEROEP I was arrested by Corporal JAMA3FITA, Corporal SAZAKI and interpreter WELDA. . . . . . . Lgte at night we arrived at KERTOFATiy tho station of PALEEBANG. By car I was taken to the Kempei-Taic Immediately upon arrival I got something t" eat flfld"a very amicable conversation started. After this I received the first blows from interpreter HAYASHI; this happened without any warning. He struck my head with his fist until I sank dovm on account cf dizziness. — Next evening, August 17, 1943, I was again interrogated by Corporal YAMASHITA; blows were not lacking again. Like FAYASKI (this is a Fomnsan and as such is called LIEF flTK TJONG) YAI"j.SFITA first struck me with his fist on t*e head, tWSl'I Wit!ir a horsewhip on my back. Ho stopped only when as a result of this I spat blood; he gave mo something to drink, wetted my head and then lc-ft me lying the whole night on a cement floor without any cover. Next day I came into a cell where, to my astonishment, also the two Amboncse policemen who had been my transport-guards, were confined. Doc. No. 5632 Page 3 ' Tbey were accused of participation in an anti-Japanese plot. For about seven days I lay there, ill with dizziness and continuously vomiting0 FAYASHI did not seen to be able to tolerate lying down, for when he saw ne he ordered ne at once to sit up, giving ne a kick at the sane tine. The food nay be described as bad and ccnsisted of a helping of wMte rice and a few slices of cucumbers three timec a day; certainly it was not more that a calory-value of % 0 per nan and per day. We had to drink jointly fron a fingerbowl; often with more than 12 people0 The cell was no larger than 2 x 4 meters and we were lying prettily like sordines one next to tie othero Naturally the hygienic situation was extremely bad. When I had become more fit again, I was again beaten by YAIIASHITA, i,e„ with his wide linen belt with buckle, he struck me violet-blue from the buttock region until the ankles, so that sitting became impossible to no. Either I was standing or I was lying down on my belly in the cello At this tine an Indonesian was brought in suspected of theft of a bicyclet The poor man was standing in the middle of a circle of Japanese and acted as a ball. I could see and hear it from my cell. In spite of many blows the man continued to deny and now the "water cure" was aaplied to him. This I could not see but I heard the vomiting behind my cell, while later, when he passed in front of the cell, he was all wet. Then the first ill-treatment was repeated. Now I heard the blows0 Apparently this was too much for the poor nan, for he collapsed„ Fc was put down on the floor in frcnt of my cello Without having regained consciousness he- expired during the night at ab^ut 2 o'clock. The corpse was quickly put into the luggage space of a car and a chauffeur drove <ff with it. Of the DutcV I saw there Mr. STEVENS, was treated wors Tine and again v e was tortured; water cure, hanging head down and fire treatment; this ccnsisted of burning the naked skin with cigarets, mosquito-torches, etc. Fe told ne all this hlnself and I saw the wounds-. The wounds caused by the fire treatment ST! after having been treated by r c rid of themc :VFNS kept longest, for only for about a month, he' wa prisoner these blows, given ,r,ith n stick of e centimeters diameter, with a horsewhip or with relied rope, were part nf the daily treatment. Every day, or rather, nearly every hour, one heard the groans and screams of the poor people. Doc. No. 5632 Page 4 There were several special torture cbmhnvs. The mildest treatment was st?•ncing m tre sun a whole day. Only in the morning one get something tc eat then0 During tho months of August and September 1943 there was a r~id among the Ambonese; somebody was said to have discovered a. plot against Japan among them. Many were arrested and ^f the hundreds of Anbrnese friends not many are lefto However, t^is was net settled by the Kempci- Tai alone, but also by the Keinobu, The Kempei-Tai did participate and nearly all Kempei-Tai members have on that occasion been guilty of severe torturingSc. In the meantime things were not going so well with me either; several times I was interrogated, not only about my own ease but also for the supplying of information concerning suspected Chinese and abcut all sorts of things. For instance I was interrogated about the doings, the connections of persons when I had hardly ever met. As I could not rc^ly to this properly, I simply had to undergo those tortures. * * * * Another time I was accused of owning a firearm,, This was said to have been reported by a spy* However, I did net own a firearm, so that a search of the house did not yield anything. The last treatment I underwent probably was an effort tc intimidation. In the evening I was brought by car tc a distant plantation,, The Indonesian chauffeur prepared a pit; I had to kneel in front of this pit, while SAZAKI put his sabre on my nock. Miraculously I escaped from this murder, because the gentlemen could not find fault with me, Abcut the end of September 1943 many prominent people were arrested. Most were treated by the Bunseiubu. In the meantime I had gradually won the confidence of the Kempei Tai and I had regularly to attend to the prisoners. Not only wounds, etc0 caused by ill treatment, but also ordinary illnesses like malaria, beri-beri, dysentery, etc, which I did tc the best cf my ability. — The first patient I had to treat was brought in more dead than alive. He had been so maltreated that he had one inflamed burn from tYc buttock region to tve ankles. I treated him for six months, and then he walked around like a gorilla. This was the Chinese A. KOF from Bjambi. He was said to have acted as en anti-Japanese spy* Probably he shall never become quite normal again® Doc. No. 5635 "Page 5 As far as I still can remember I will state hereunder the names cf some people to whou I attended medically and who ei.ther died or who have cone through alive (all arrested by t^e Palenbong Kempei-Tai), 1. A Chinese by the nane cf TAN, who under the Dutch Government had been working as inspector with the Political Intelligence servicee I attended hin for severe dropsy- Tie has not/ recovered. This happened around Septerber 1943» 2o The Chinese LIEN SAL TJOAN, owner cf toko Djoe Seng, Paler.bang; ve also suffered fr:.n dropsy as a result of a liver ailnentc This occurred in 19440 Later he died of t^is illness, also as a result of tortures suffered at the hands of the Ker~pei Taic He had erne there for having been in possession cf Chunking currency 3. An Indonesian, nane unknown, owner of tckc Kenora, Palenbang, I attended,hin fcr the results of tortures by tve Kenpei-Taio He had received, nany beatings. He could neither walk nor see after this ill treatment. In 1944 I treated hin for abc.ut a month-, ^e is cured. - 9 • • a • * 6. A Javanese train mechanic, I do not rei ember his nane, of the State Railways,, He had been terribly naltreated and had died during those tortures0 I ascertained personally the traces of nany bl- ws, because the b' dy was brought to ny house<> He was beaten to death by Sergt„ NODA. The corpse I returned to his family. This also happened in 1944i o • » • • o Very, very often I was called to tYc Kcnpei-Tai office to attend tortured people of all nationalities» Generally the illtreatnents were cf a severe nature, mostly caused bv beatings. Treatment by t^e Kenpci-Tai in the first instance was not the sane. Sometimes one was given good food befrrc the interrogation, to be beaten tc death afterwards. Instruments used most f:r trrturing, werei a. a wooden stick of some 4 centimeter diameter, applied to the knuckleso b. a leather horsewhip or a rrlled rope. c. burning with cigarets, mosquito torches, etc. d. a big kettle, contents about 5 liters, to overdrink® Sometimes tVis kettle, generally filled with soapwater, had t' be emptied up tc three tines. Doc. No. 5635 "Page 6 Hanging at first was done head down* Later this method was changed and the victims were hung feet down and hands bound on their back, As for the water cure: the victim was held by some Kempei-Tai members, and, as soon as the kettle was empty, t>~e stomach region of tve victim was pushed strongly so as to promote vomiting, for instance by dancing on his body, etc0 As stated, the meals were very scanty and consisted mostly of a small plate of rice and a few slices of cucumber* Sometimes a man who had just been tortured did not receive food for three days« In my time bathing was a rarity. — For the dead, who all died as a result of torture under- gone, I often had to sign a certificate, stating that tve person In question had died of tropical malaria, a heart- disease or beri-beri4 So tvesc were all false certificates, of which I have signed about 17 in all0 As a revenge for the murder of the Kempei-Tai Corporal MOCFI OTTO, which was not solved, no less than 100 people from Aer Item wer_ arrested, of whom there remained no more than 20. The remainder disappeared without trace. I estimate tvrt in total many more than 100 people have died as a result of torturing by the Kenpti-Tai depart- m ent Pa1emba ng. Head of the Konpei-Tai here was Kajor JALA NT. T/.KASE. Sometimes he assisted personally at the tortures, for instance at mine, and then used to look on smiling0 He certainly knew about everything the.t happened at the Kempei-Tai. O © • * O Among the Ambonese vhoi: I know personally and w*o died, are BAKAEBESEY and IOTA PA TIN/ JA, both working at the Nethc In ies Tax Offico. They died two days after their arrest; this I know from their wives, who were called by the Gunseibu in order to take away the corpses of their husbands© The women told.me this* They had died as a result of torturing® . . . c a b W. So Lo Djion Sioe W. S, To G. Benders riiw ^ocu_ent To. 5634 \ OJjii > .1 F .1. J. *•» 3 The undersigned Cft-iiLES J0I«5J:J£SL, first Lieutenant R.N.I.:.., head of the «/-.r Crimes Section of NE'iHEni.j.DS FOuCJL. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NEFIS) beinc first duly sworn on ovth deposes ma states tn-'t the annexed report is a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original ekcuiaent entitled: "Sworn Statement of Foppo xî nse IUUIER, He .dmanager of th-? Deli Tabaksrmt schappij, Had-an, dtod 30 1,larch 1946, Signed F „ R. Kr-xiar". Oli/8167?S »hich document is a :̂ art of the official r-cords of the NEFIS. SIGNiiTUitE: /s/ Ch. Jongeneel B -T4VX'., June 7th 1946. Subscribed no sworn to before me K. .... de ,,'EEHD, first Lieutenant R.N.I.. Higher Official att ach-d to the office of the ..tt̂ rney General N.E.I. /s/-K. A . Q J JEERD /is. Document Nu. 5634 0i,l/£167/S Fage No. 2 ( 0 T .. T E . 1 . T Suaa-.ry of exomin tioi. .f Fopp. iC.nso KM-.IER, Head-manager ef the "DELI T.:3.JiSi!-,..TS0rL'JFIJ% Pecan. duly sworn st .tes: : I 'Xi 44 years of age, of Dutch n tionality, born .t GliTHOOriW. I am .t 1 regent living t Sultansoe^ 29, Medan. i On 17 Nov 43 I "rrived at i&lJLtiG SLJJJAIKrisen, sentenced to 15 ! years ef i m p r i s o n m f o were there 34 Europeans, Political prisoners ; including three females. i On 31 -iUg 45, ^n which date v«e .vere released, only 12 persons had ^ survived the miserable conditions in that irison.^: Their names ar^: KR'J ISIi AUG OSTEIN REELICK Hps . TELLINGS G.'j.SFEH liss STCTL'i. luohup v..a: i&g G&EENE V.JT DEit 3CH4.F -of whom V IT BEN BEKG and V J: SGH . JF died sincej The two other names I d > net recall. 1 have handed in to the N.I. ;ted Gr >ss organisation at MjDi-iN a list of the names >f those who died in prison. r.Vt the end .f 1943 the total nu; ber „.f - ( - 1 1 nationalities incl.) amounted to -p r;x. 550. .t 'jug 1945 more than 300 of them had died, ".fter r.y release, t the estate L.it.S, I calculated the exact p^rcenta, e . f rortaliay being 62%. Causes f death were invariably dysentery, malnutrition, a-vita.ainosis, beri-beri. In sh .rt "11 kinds of 1 fO'..d-deficiendy diseases. If the Indonesian guards thou ht that a man was going to die, he was put into a special cell. Each morning guard came, kicked at the cell-door â,nc". shoutedi- "Are you alive or dead?" On 12 April 35 Mr. KGEK was brought to such a cell to die. He suffered with dysentery and as he could not help himself, nor was taken care of by anybody else, his own cell of course was unspeakably dirty. That same date (12 April) I was moved into Mr. KOEK's cell, dirty as it was, on order of mantri POEtiBA, who did not take any notice of my strong protests^ A few days afterwards I myself got dysentery. Mr. KGEh lived for another 15 days in his "dying-cell" and passed away on 27 April 43. — — — — » l̂ If a man was about to die, but lived too long to one of the guard's opinion, the man was put outside his cell or barrack into the sunshine to speed up his death. I have seen such thing happen myself. Once it happened that a prisoner, whom the guards supposed to be dead, * |had been taken away and loaded upon the cart, _used for funerals. After a time he was brought back because he_viaa_£aUQd_£?"pe strnxT^aTTve. The Indonesian doctor itUSii&ilW acted as prison iiedicine Officer. This man visited the prison .bout once a month. The EGnOPE-J.S were just nothing to him. moreover there was a medical orderly, - Batak named LLAAS, who was not interested at all in the sick. The only medicine we ever got was now ana again a spoonful of palmoil and about once a month some kind of liquid belly medicine.! Document po. 5634 Page No. 3 The Japanese prison-administrator, ^ISKIMLFcA, himself never visited us or inspected conditions. His second man, 1 Japanese, whose name I do not know, made his rounds through the prison daily. The only action he tock, however, was beating up now and again the cookhouse-personnel when he states that they had stolen too.much of the prisoners' rations. The food was at first reasonable. From 6 Dec. 1943 already, me^ls became extremely bad and inadequate in quantity as well -as in quality. F«r about 40 days our meals consisted then of: Braa.' f-st: 3 V 3 r little -ieces of sweet-potato (weighing boiled certainly less than 100 gramms) Lunch: 4 or 5 little pieces of svreet-potato and a few leaves of b"d "uality greens. Dinner '• sau e as lunch Either at lunch or at evening-me'l a very small piece of salted fish was issued, usually, however, consisting of the head of the fish only. After AO days we got every other day maize and rice for midday and evening-me .1, „.aize average 300 grams a meal (i.e h-ve counted them!) and rice 7 spoonfulls. At first we got a piece of boiled meat once a week and half an egg once or twice a week; this ceased, however, after 2 or 3 months. The hard-workers and those of us supervising the work got once a day a so-called foreman's meal in quantity about three times a normal meal. These extras were deducted from the food of the others. The total quantity issued remained the same. From the very beginning we tried to smuggle our clothes out of the jail in exchange for food. After this had been detected all our clotiing and other belongings were taken from us ana we were only allowed one pair of shorts, one shirt, one blanket and one grass mat if we had any. '«e were not even allowed a spoon or a pillow. Until 1 Jan. 45 Mr. K0EK md I slept together with 109 Chinese and Indonesi-n political prisoners in a barrack, marked for 14 persons. • Signed F. it. Lit u.:E£L /N 1— I certify that I duly translated the above summary to the witness in his own language, prior to his signature which appears above. Signed VAN DE I.JDS Tr anslator i Sworn before me VAN D E LANDE -̂ AJ for 0C ho 4 -l- Crimes Investigation Team. t ' This 30 day of March 1946 1 Detailed to examine the above by the Commander-in-chief, Allied Land Forces, South East AsiaTj Authority: ALFSEA ,r.r Crimes Instruction No. 1, para 7. nV Glass B and C Offenses; PROSECUTION DOCUMENT No. 5682. NETHERLANDS INDIES TIMOR and LESSEE SUNDA. ISLANDS Synopsis Netherlands Division I.P.S. December, 1945. Lt.Col, J.S.Sinninghe Damstfc, R.N.I.A., Assistant Prosecutor. DOCUMENT 5682 Page 1. TIMOB and LES S"3 ~"NDA ISLANDS Synopsis. Occupation "by the Japanese Navy. I. PRISONERS OP WAP, 1. Murder. Captured troops were murdered in the most cruel way. a. At Oesapa Besa:-. Dutch Timor, about February 1942 eight Australian P.O.W. were shot after capture, without any trial. This appears from the affidavit by the Australian Pte. R-B, CROW. Prosecution Document 5571. The Prosecution enters this document 5571 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. b. At Babaoe (Baboe) Dutch Timor, about February 1942, an Australian Medica' Corporal, who was left jn charge of the hospital, was hanged and had his throat cut. This is stated in the interrogation-report of the Australian Arm; Chaplain TH. W. BINDMAT. Prosecution Document 5573, who also affirmed the murder at Oesapa Besar, already mentioned, The Prosecution enters this document 5575 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. c. At Babaoe. in February 1942 also three Australian P.O.W. were killed; the; were tied to each other by string around their wrists and their throats were cut. This is stated by the Australian Lt. Colonel W.W„ LEQC-ATT. Prosecution Document 5579. The Prosecution enters this document 5579 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. d. / At Tatu Meta. Portuguese Timor, in February 1942 seven Australian soldiers 'were captured, The Japanese bound their hands behind their backs by telephone wire which had been pierced through their wrists. Then they were bayonetted. The bayonetting lasted for twenty minutes before they were dead. This appear from the affidavit by S. GBACA: Prosecution Document 5802. At Dilli. Portuguese Timor, in March 1942 a Dutch officer was tied to a tree^ and jor icked-Absr a Japanese of fieerjath his bayonet for about twenty __ /minutes; DO COME: rT 5662 Page 2. minutes; chest and stomach were pierced many times; then he was stabbed to death. This is related "by G-PACA as well. The Prosecution enters this document 5302 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. e. At Soeway. Portuguese Timor, in August 1942 the Japanese, commanded by a Captain, murdered the captured Dutch sub-lieutenant STIEFKENS by beheading This is reported by M. AUG-TJSTUT. who actcd as an interpreter. Prosecution Document 5585. The Prosecution enter?, this document 5585 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. 2. Camps. Conditions were about the same as in the camps in the other areas. a. At the P.O.W.canp, Oesapa 3esar.conditions were decidedly bad as regards food, drinking facilities, accommodation and sanitation. Medicines were not provided but the P.O.W. happened to have sufficient drugs of their own. This is contained in the affidavit of Lt.Colonel LEGGATT, exhibit . b. At Elores Island, West of Timor, conditions were terrible. In the first months no dwellings were provided, the P.O.W., also the sick people, had to stay in the open air. Sanitation, hygienic and medical conditions were appalling. In the ward of the seriously ill patients no bedpans were available, therefore a little hole was dug next to each bedplace and the patients had to roll over it ̂ Because a stool of 40 to 60_jtimes_a_day_^ was not an exception, tine and again new holes had to be dug round the patient until there was no place left and a new bed had to be found. In case the patient 'as too weak to roll over the hole next to his bed, / one was dug under it and a hole made through his sleeping mat. Food was bad. Consequently health deteriorated and more than half w-re ill. Still the sick were forced to labour. Cf these 2 73 Dutch P.O.W. 211 died from illness within a years' time. Discipline was harsh; corporal punishments were fre- quent, causing injuries and even indirectly death. P.O.W. were not protected against air attacks. DOCUlhEl'IT 5682 Page 3. This is the sad story told in the report of Captain A.C.J. DE TBOUARS. E.E.I.A,, the camp commandant; Pte. O.K. PRATT'S. E.F.I.A., and 1st Lieutenan H.5.J. EE "TRIES. R ".I.A.; Prosecution Document 5578. The Prosecution enters this document 5578 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. c. At Soemba Island, West of Timor, interrogations were held under beatings and threats. As is reported in the affidavit of the Australian F/Lt. L.L. McEEFSIS; Prosecution Document 5583. The Prosecution enters this document 5583 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. d. At P.O.W.cemp Koepang, Dutch Timor, P.O.W. were forced to an exhausting march under harsh beatings; food; sanitary conditions end medical care were bad; labour was exhausting. As appears from the affidavit of Sgt. CH. VA1T PER. SLOOT. R.K.I.A., Prosecution Document 5597. The Prosecution enters this document -557 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. 3. Executions. a. At Oesapa Besar-camp an Australian P.O.W. who had struck a Japanese F.C.O and escaped was killed. This was explained in a letter written on behalf of the C.O. by a Japanese corporal who States: "In Japanese forces when a perse strikes an officer or 5.C.O. of higher rank the penalty is always death." However this F.O.W. was executed vrithout trial but only on instructions from Headquarters. This appears from the affidavit of Lt. Colonel LEGGATT. exhibit . b. At P.O.W.camp, Flores. two P„0.W. vere executed without trial. As is stated in the report of Capt. DE THCUARS c. s.. exhibit . II. CIVILIANS. A. Internees. Most of the European population was interned, also in Portuguese Timor, and their conditions were not much different from those in the civilian internees camps in other areas. DOCUMENT 5682 Page 4. a. At Soemba conditions were bad, although there was only a small number of internees. Accommodation and food were inadequate; their property was looted; severe beatings occurred causing injuries. As appears from the affidavit of the Controller (civil servant) ,,r.P.H. PLAS. Prosecution Document 5596. The Prosecution enters this document 5596 as an exhibit. b. At Licuiga, Portuguese Timor, tho Portuguese civilians were concentrated and interned. Conditions vere as usual: bad accommodation, food, medical care; exposure to air attacks without protection, attracted especially by firing from a hospital. Particulars are given in the affidavit of GBACA. already introduced, exhibit , and the affidavit by C. J.SEQIIEIBA; Prosecution Document 58:,3. » The Prosecution enters this document 5803 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. 3. Non-Interned. 1. Murder. a. At Aileu, Portuguese Timor, in September 1942 the Japanese,disguised as natives, made an attack upon the Portuguese guards, who had been sent off duty, and killed most of them. This is stated by a surviv Portuguese Pte. E. SI:'PES. Prosecution Document 5804, The Prosecution enters this document 5804 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. b. At Ainaro. Portuguese Timor, in October 1942 two Eoman Catholic priests were murdered. Atsabe, Portuguese Timor, in December 1942 the Japanese used, when attacking the Australian forces, 5C to 60 natives as a screen, of whom a number was killed. t 4 The Japanese burned the native huts in the area of Mt„ Katrai. Portu- guese T imor, and shot the women and children as they ran from the huts. This was a regular practice. These facts are related by the Australian E/O W.A. BEATTIE.Prosecution /Document D0CWE17T 5682 Page 5. Document 5805. The Prosecution enters this document 58C5 as an exhibit. c. The Japanese attacked and sacked also other native villages in Portu- guese Timor, using indiscriminate machinegun fire, e.g. Eelicai and Eahareca, as appears from the affidavit by the Portuguese L.A.I-.", RODREIGUES Prosecution Document 5b06. The Prosecution enters this document 5806 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. d. At Koepang, two natives were killed without proper trial; as appears from the affidavit of YAH DUE SLOOT. already introduced, exhibit . e. At Oesapa. a native was killed without trial, as stated in the report of Chaplain EI"*DEMAH. already introduced, exhibit . f. In September 1944 General TAI\AKA ordered a punitive action against the islanders of Loeang; and Sermata, East of Timor, because some Kempeitai men had been murdered by the native population. The local Rajah of Loeang was ordered to search for the chief of the so-called mutiny and was executed because he could not find the mutineer, The chief of the rebels and two others were executed at Lautem. Portuguese Timor. Of the other Loeang rebels 34 '-ere executed on Moa Island, and 60 of the 650 Sermata rebels were killed. This appears from the report of Major General ?„ TA1TAZA, Prosecution Document 5594. The Prosecution enters this document 5594 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. A Japanese Lieutenant gives a further description of the killing on Moa Island. The natives were killed by bayonetting, three at a time by 21 Japanese soldiers. He himself organised a brothel in which he forced five native women to act as prostitutes as a punishment for the deeds of their fathers. Statement by Lt. S. OHAEA, Prosecution Document 5591. The Prosecution enters this document 5591 as an exhibit. DOCUMENT 5682 Page 6, 2. Kempeitai. The Military Police operating in this area applied the well-known Kempei methods of interrogation, torture, punishment and treatment. Burning with cigarettes, watertest, hanging, kneeling u~on sharp stones; severe "beatings.. Even kill: ig. a. L.A.N. BODBEIG-UES describes instances of torture at Ossu, Portuguese Timor, in his affidavit, exhibit , and also mentions that the Japanese forced the local chiefs to provide girls for the brothels. bT~ The Chinese CHUNG- HAI CHENG-. or HA HOI, acted as an interpreter for the Kenrpeitai at Dilli. In his affidavit he relates several cases of ill- treatment; Prosecution Document 5807. Conditions in the prir.on were very bad as may easily be understood by the statement of HA HCI, Prosecution Document 5<J*'?. The Australian prisoner? in the gaol at Dilli were very weak and exhausted. Women prisoners were beaten as well as men. The Prosecution enters this document 5307 for identification and the excerpts as an exhibit. c. it Manatuto, Po: niguese Timor, the Portuguese Chef de poate (adminis- trator) was murdered by the .empei; his cut-up remains were put in a sack and sent to his wife. As stated in the affidavit by E/0 BEATTIE, already introduced, exhibit . This completes the presentation of evidence regarding the Japanese war crimes eommitted in the Timor area. / X DOCUMENT NO. 5573 j 1 & / j f PAGE 1 Evidence taken Manila l/lC/45 /s/ A.W. (?) When COMPLETED this document mtist be classified as SECRET AUSTRALIAN WAR CRIMES COMMISSION QUESTIONNAIRE NOTES:- (a) This questionnaire should be completed by!- (i) All repatriated Australian prisoners of war (A.I.F., R.A.A.F., and R.A.N.). (ii) All repatriated Australian civil internees. (iii) All repatriated British civil internees in the Pacific Area (exelusind Malaya end China). (IV) All members and ex-members of the Allied forces who have actual knowledge of war crimes committed by the enemy. (b) It will be completed in the presence of an officer who will counter- sign the signature of the person making the statement. (c) It is important that a full statement on page 3 (carried on to page 4 if necessary) be furnished as well as the answer to 8 (f). , 1. Army number WX11036 2. Rank Chaplain ( 3^ Bull name (in Block Letters) BINDEMAN: Thomas William 4. Unit at time of capture and/or place of capture Sparrows Force, Timor 5. Home address U Fortune Street. South. Berth W.A. [**" 67" At what enemy camps and hosoitals were you confined and when were you at j each? . I Oesapa Besar, Timor Feb. '42 - Sep. Tandjong Priok, Java Oct Makasara, Java Jan 10th Battalion, Java Mar Singapore Sep •Shirr-kp-'ren, Formosa Nov Fukuoka', Kyushu Feb Mukden, Manchukuo Apr 42 - Jan '43 43 - Mar ' 43 43 - Sep '43 43 - Oct '43 43 - Feb ' 45 45 - Apr '45 45 - Aug '45 7. Do you have any information about any atrocities against, or mistreatment of, Allied soldiers, prisoners of war, civilian internees, or the civilian population for which you think the perpetrators should be punished? (Answer by stating YES or NO in the spaces provided below)— (a) Killings or executions Yes Yes or No (b) Rape, torture, beatings or other cruelties Yes Yes or No (c) Imprisonment under improper conditions Yes Yes or No SO. 557S PAGE 2 (d) Massacres, wholesale looting, pillage, or burning of towns or villages Ho Yes or Ho (e) Use of prisoners of war or civilians on enemy military works or operations . . . Yes Yes or No (f) Exposure of prisoners of war to danger of gunfiqjf, "bombing, torpedoing, or other hazards of war . . . . Yes Yes or No (g) Transportation of prisoners of war under improper conditions or deportation of civilians _. Yes or No (h) Public exhibition or exposure to ridicule of prisoners of war Yes or No (i) Failure to provide prisoners of war or internees with proper medical care, food or quarters Yes or No (j) Collective punishment of a group for offence of others t Y e 3 w Yes or No (lc) Breaches of rules relating to the F.ed Cross —Yes Yes or No (l) Cannibalism . . Yes or No (m) Mutilation of the dead .. Yes or No * (n) Any other war crimes not specifically mentioned above for which you think the guilty persons should Y e s be punished — — — - — Yes or ho If any question is answered YES then state the facts in 8 (f) and on pages 3 and 4. 8 Details of Atrocities - Kind of crime killing When and where it happened (c) Who was the victim? (Give complete description including name and whether military or civilian personnel) (d) Who was the perpetrs/tor? (Give as complete description and as much information as possible (e) State if you saw it yourself, if you did not see it, who told you about it? (Give names and addresses of other witnesses) (f) C-ive brief story of crime. Pull statement required on pages 3 and 4. DOCUMENT 170 . 55 73 PAGE 3 v C . . . « » « . . •Other war crimes not specifically mentioned, include: - (i) Usurpation of sovereignty during military occupation. (ii) Compulsory enlistment of soldiers among the inhabitants of occupied territory. (iii) Attempts to denationalize the inhabitants of occupied territory ( i v ) Confiscat ion of property. (v) Exaction of illegitimate or of exorbitant contributions and requisitions. (vi) Debasement of the currency and issue of spurious currency. (vii) Deliberate bombardment of undefended places. ( v i i i ) Wanton destruct ion of r e l i g i o u s , c h a r i t a b l e , educational and h i s t o r i c a l bui ld ings and monuments. (ix) Use of explosive or ê ggjjjjĵ ĝ ĵJĴ Ĵ and other inhuman appliances. (x) Directions to give no quarter and refusal of quarter. (xi) Misuse of flags of trace. FJLL STATEMENT OE ATROCITY OH CRIME This MUST be signed by the person making the statement and counter- signed by the interrogating officer at the end of the statement. I Cpl Guthrie; W.C.(VX 23312) who was unarmed, wearing the red cross upon his arm, and left in charge of the hospital at Baboe, Timor, from which, fortunately, patients had been removed a few hours before, was hanged from a tree and had his throat cut. Troops of the Sparrow Eorce re- ported this incident. Personally, I verified the fact that Cpl Guthrie had met his end in this way by Laving to exhume the body from a slit trench in which it had been placed temporarily,in order to recc-. r" his identity disc and place his body in a place where it might not escape notice. II While traversing country where the Okabeti and Tjamplong roads cross in Timor, looking for dead to give them burial I came across the bodies of 8 Australian soldiers tied, together by rope around their wrists. Each load been shot through the head at close quarters. Later it was related that 11 sick men were being removed to the Tjamplong Hospital when captured by the Japanese. After some time the Japanese decided to shoot all the prisoners but men succeeded in breaking their bonds and escaping. One of the men, whose name I lost during a voyage, reached the Oesapa?Rsq*"Prison Camp and confirmed my theory formed from the evidence I had discovered. Ill Pte Terry, E.E. (TX3597) was taken from the OesapaSesarPrison Caurp to drive a truck for the Japanese. During one of his trips he suffered a breakdown to his truck. He was charged by his guard with sabotage, became angry and struck him. Por this offence he was shot without trial. Lt. Hirada admitted this. Lt. Hirada was the second officer appointed to the OesapaBosarPrison Camp succeeding Lt., later Captain,Fukada. IT DOCUMENT NO. 5573 A native, familiarly known as Tommy "3roome", the latter name because he had engaged in pearling in Broome, West Australia and was the proud possessor of a discharge certificate which stated that he had rendered faithful service in his work, spoke to me as I passed him on my way to bury dead after capitulation. Hidashi Hioki, who claimed to be attached to the Tokvo Times in normal times but seemed to be a member of Japanese Intelligenco Staff during the_war on Timor, was acting as guard and immediately 'took Tommy into custody, fffi iF^^fllY • his arrival in Tjanplong,, interceded on the native's behalfbut my efforts were fruitless, was taken into a building: and a shot rang out. Hioki smilingly,tflld mc_. .that Jap;^»fg fl^jf^j.jrfiTO. 'Ml"+" 1' 1"" Active "jfY^cLJ aid HBStlR. was confirmed by another native later. '— /s/ T. W. Bindeman To the bc3t of my belief the above particulars^correct. Affirmed before me at Manila this 1st day of October 1945 , . /s/ . A..Walker,.Capt j (Signature of Interrogating Officer) /s/. .T. V. .Bindeman (Signature) / Hyfl DOCUMENT 1\T0, 5579 PAGE 1 i'JSTRALHZ ",fAR CBDJ5 BOABD OF IEQJJIEY BFFCPF, PIS. .HQIQE,.. 17:-IPS PHI LP WILLIAM WATT LEGCATT, Sworn and examined: I am 71. 44907, Lieut.-Col. William Watt Leggatt. C.O. 2/40th. My private address is Mornington, Victoria. I was taken prisoner at TIMOB on 23rd February, 1942. Before I was captured we recaptured a village called Babaoe, which had been taken by the Japanese. While we were in possession of the village I saw three men of my battalion who had been tied each to each by string around their wrists. Their throats had been cut and there was evidence that they had also been shot. I was confined in Oesapa Besar. Aecommodat ion ilo covering of any sort was provided at first, except a few native huts for the sick in a separate medical area. We built our own camp, in the dinner of native huts. Food The only food at first was rice. No cooking utensils were provided and food was cooked in meso tins. Later we obtained some of our own kitchen - tensils. The only water available for any purpose at all, was from a swamp in the area. Later on, about a month, we were placed on our own half- ration scale from ou.r own rations which had been recovered from our base depot. Medical and 1 o drugs supplied at all, at first; but we had sufficient 5rrr.iene of our own drugs to carry on. Latrines No latrines were provided. We had to dig our own immediately and ver^ few tools were provided for the purpose. Work F.O.W's. vero employed unloading ships, mainly food. Munitions At one time we were asked to unload Munitions. I objected and that was stopped. The general treatment by the Japanese of the P.O.W.'s was good and I saw only one incident of a man being struck, for stealing. The punishment administered to him was not very severe. / Canteen DOCUMENT KO. 5579 PAGE 2 Canteen There was no canteen hut we were able to buy some food from the natives. EXECUTION OF V.X. 3597. PRIVATE TERRY. E.g.. 2/40th BATT. A copy of a letter '-Titten by me on 14th June, 1942 to the Japanese Commandant of the camp at 03SAPA BESAR is attached hereto and marked with a letter "A". The reply of Corporal Sakakura, for Lieut. M. Harada (the Camp Commandant) dated 16th June, 1S42 is attached hereto and marked with the letter "B". A copy of letter dated 16th June, 1942 from me to the Camp Commandant is attached hereto and marked with the letter "C1'. I have no personal knowledge as to who actually executed Private Terry but I have been informed by some of my men that he was executed by a Japanese Sergeant, Soramsnto. In July, 1942 I \«ras taken to the Cycle Camp in Batavia. ACCOMMODATION: Seasonable, but very overcrowded. FOOB: Inadequate MEDICAL & HYGIENE; Medical supplies were short but we were able to purchase some outside. Hygiene was fair. WORK: Clearing up the town. Officers did not work except in charge of parties. GENERAL: We were forced to salute all ranks. The guards used to come through the camps several times a day beating up prisoners of war who did not stand strictly to attention. I went to Changi on 12th September, 1942 and remained there until the end of hostilities. This is the second and last sheet of the evidence of Lieut.Col. William Watt Leggatt C.O. 2/40th3att., taken and sworn before me at Melbourne in the State of Victoria this 24th day of January, 1946. /s/. .¥. .Watt.Leigatt /si.. .G JJhilia. .J DEPOEBNT MEMBER •—- Australian Board of Inquiry into War Crimes. GIB/CR/lc LIEUT.COL. W.W. LEGGATT 24/1/45 DOCUMENT 1TO, 5579 "A" The Oommandant Australian Oanro OESAPA BESAR. Bef ALLEGED DE5.TH OE PTE TEBPY E.E. Information was received yesterday from a driver in ZOEPASG that TX S5S7 Pte TEBBY E E who was driving a truik at S03, was shot and killed a few days age. 2. Please advise if this occurred and if so what were the circumstances connected with his death. ' Lt Col. (Sgd) W.Y. Leggatt Australian Camp. The following message has "been received from our HQ at Koepang:- 1. Driver Terry was killed under the following circumstances: Some days ago he was driving a lorry which "broke down. Be left the lorry hy the roadside and went "back to the "barracks for his meals. One of our IT. C,0's noticed him and told him he should have brought the truck hack to the garage before lunch and ordered him to go out and get it. The H.C.O, again noticed him and repeated his order but he did not obey and struck the IT.C.O. and ran away. The garrison in SOE commenced a search ana found him and acting on instructions from HQ. in SOE he was killed. 2. In Japanese forces when a person strikes an officer or H.C.O. of higher rank the penalty :.s always death. This is the first time that a prisoner of war has committed an act of violence and we hope that it will not uccur again. 3. We do not wish to show any lac": of courtesy to a prisoner of war but it is the duty of a prisoner of war to conduct himself in a proper manner. (Sgd) Sakakura Cpl for M. Earada, Lieut. OESAPA BESAE PAGE 3 14 Jun 42. GIB/CE/2C. APPENDIX 1. 24/1/46 /s/ G Philp DOCUMENT NO. 557)3 PAGE 4 "C" OESAPA BESAR 16 Jun 43 The Commandant Australian Canrp OESAPA BESAE XTLLING 0? Pte TS5RY Bcference your memo of 16 Jun 42 it seems hardly credible that the summary shooting of Pte TEKBI is contravention of even the customs of civilized warfare apart from the rules of the GENEVA CONVEX I ON should be countenanced by the Japanese authorities. 2. This Force surrendered on the condition that they would be properly treated, according to the rules of Prisoners of War. 3. Apart from the unjustified severity of the penalty should be carried out without a proper trial. 4. Please supply details of the evidence of any witnesses of the occurrence. 5. In view of the -fact that the drivers are liable to be subjected to such summary treatment it is requested that they be returned to the P 0 W Camp. (Sa-d.) W Watt Leggatt Lt Col GI3/CB/3C APPENDIX 2. LT. COL. W.W. LEGGATT 24/1/46 /s/ G Philp J. / lS3ff Do*c. 5802 Excerpts. Summary of examination of SEBiSTI^O GRAC.̂ Telephone Chief. Dilli, P0RT3GUSES TUTOR (permanent a^ess). being duly sworn statesr I am n^ortuguese subject, a Telephone Chief and live at DilliFORTEGUESS TIMOR*'.; I was in DILLI when the Japanese first landed on 20th-«^ruar'; 19427 I know Doctor OLIVERS. On the 23rd February I was at my property at TATU M3TA. I saw seven Australian soldiers who had bean captured by tho Japanese. One viaa a Sergeant. The Australians had their hands bound behind their backs by telephone wire which had beer) t.frpnngh their wrists. Ab.ut twenty,. Japanese were with the ..'iqstralians. • I was too far away to see if a Japanese officer was present. The Australians were placed in line nd tha Japanngg commenced to be. onet than. They bag cn^ted them slowly at first a number of _ times, After twenty minutes cf bayoneting, ho Australians were billed *By a last thrust of a bayonet^ f The Australians Ts?re brought to the place in a truck. The bodies of the Australians v.ere thrown into ditches | at the side QJ the ro'~d and the Japanese covered them partly leavin;, 'the lij.o end _f_et ex. ;>qn< ;d. The "Japanese then left and three days later as the bodies began tc smell I informed Doctor OLIVERA. It was impossible to pass because of the smell. l a ^ 'The 'first Sergeant VICEN'IE of the Chief of Police, came with a party and buried the bodies in a proper manner two or three metres from the side of the road. Later I went to near the proves and I faimd ' n Australian Bay- book with a photograph of n anlrHfir wrv sor. ear;t1 s "tripes. I do not remember the name in the Paybook. (Witness was here shown an "Australian Paybook and identified i .) Later I took the Pay book to .my place where an Australian officer '.JRS staying, at LAULARA, and gave him the Paybook. I do not know tho name of this Australian officer. The Australians rare dressed in tho usual Australian uniforms with Australian hats. The bodies of the Australians were reuoved by tho Australian Graves Pom ri.? 3'. on in December 1945» after the remains had boon exhumed ty the Porteguese .and placed in boxes. • In the beginning of: March, T saw a Dutch officer brought by the Japanese to near the Post Office in Dilli. The Dutch officers hands wer,g bound behind M s back. It vr.s about 6 o'clock in the evening. He was pi'ced on the steps of the Post Office. H- was left there all night. The next day the Dutch officer asked for water but the Japanese did not give him. any. I do not know the rank of the Dutch officer. This is page one of the statement by SEBA3TIA0 GRAG-. Doc. No. 5802 Pago 2 .'.The Dutch officer was hound to a tree and a Japanese officer started to prick him slowly many times with a sword. This vent on forten to twenty minutes and then tho Japanese officer killed tho Dutch officor by thrusting his sword into tho Dutch officers heart. His chest and stomach had been pierced many times. I then wont away end when I returned at midday the body of tho Dutch officer had been taken rway. j In January 193» I "7~s told that a Porteguose and his mother who was 70 years of age were killed by the Japanese near the garden on the son front in DILLI, The name of this Porteguose, -.-as ANTONIO AR.UJ0 who was Secretary of tho Administration of .'XLEU. They were killed inside a hcuse0 - number of Porteguese prisoners were taken to this house and never came out. This house was the Headquarters of the Japanese Police or Ortori, raid tho Commandant of the Japanese Police was an officor named I'l-TSUD̂ .. I do not know tho nemos of any of the Japan as o '.."ho were con- cerned in the murders of the Au.-tralinns or of tho Dutch officer. T could recognize ''lATSUDA og. in, but I could not recognize the others as they .all appeared alike in features. The Secretary of tho Administration was one th: t escaped when the Japanese attacked ALLEU. When the Japanese occupied the East side of DILLI they were commanded by MATSUDA and another officer, Lieutenant MATSYM0T0, and they reached MANATUTO, they killed tho Administrator, MENDES XMEIDA and tho Chef de Pcstc P-DINHA. A Chinese, LEAD PO, rent with the Japanese to H/NATUTO and saw the happenings. The Chines.̂ later escaped to the Netherlands island. This v s on 30th November 1942. The Japanese with nrtive troops then wont to LAUTEM where they killed tho '.dministratcr, I&JTOEL BAHROS and his wife and two other Portuguese, ANTONIO TEIX3IRA and M-RIO GCNSALV3S. Tho Japanese also used natives of Dutch Island of ALGR cjlcl Dutch TIMOR as black troops in those attacks. The Commandant of the Dutch native troops was PAULO of ATAMBOEA, DUTCH TIMOR. The native troops were organised by n tives of Dutcb Timor who •.eretaken in larg., groups to Porteguose Timor to fight for the Japanese, jl was later put into the concentration camp by tho Japanese. \ In September 1945 nine native Chiefs of the Posts of LAELUTA were killed by tho Japanese because the Chiefs had' sheltered PATRICIA LU"-i, who tsas a Porteguose Guerilla and worked with the Australians. I I n • I " ' " * " " T H I I I ~ T l| M —mil l III ' 'I » W i l l i 1 " . I ' m . * r T ^ f L.In the concentration caiip, the Japanese did not give sufficient food to us, only small quantities of potatoes and r^co. There v/a3 a Porteguose Doctor there but he did not got any medical supplies. About fifty adult persons died in the camp through lack of food nnd through eating poisonous greons which they gathered through hunger. We were not allowed to write letters from the camp, nor mere we allowed to receive letters, *.' This is page two of tho statement by SEB.3TIA0 GR..CA. .Doc. No. 5802 Pago 3 • V/o wero for cod to r.ork in vo go table gardens but tlx? fields wero not vory suitable for vegetables, /iftar the vegetables grow, tho Japanese sent natives to take it avay. All my property was taken from mo immediately aftor tho Japanese landing. All other places veru similarly robbod. Native girls were forced to sloop with tho Japanese. Tho Chef do Foste at tho camp was ordered to bring Porteguoso girls to tho Jrpanose. Tho Chef de Posto, 01I73RIA, refused and ho was held all night by tho Japanese. The Portoguoso schools wore all destroyed and tho Japanese oponed schools and forced tho natives to attend to learn Japanese. (Sigued)^SebastiaotGraoa. . Signature of Deponent Taken and Sworn before mo at DILLI, P0RTEGUE3E TIMOR, this 25th day of June, 1946. (S.ignud.1 Pj. Iluintpji Major, being Officer appointed by Oomandor-in-Ohicf ; S to mako this investigation and iSig&Oil)_ H._Pcs Oapt N.E.I. Afflir. and (Signed) _ Illegible Intondente, P01TEGU.3SE TTHOP Intorpreter, I, GIL FIRRISRA, certify that J duly translated tho .above summary to tho witness in his own language, prior to his signature thich appears -above, i^Agapi,)- Gil iLi'irî ta, ' Interpreter f v/oc« No, 5585 J i m Page 1 CERTIFICATE. > V 1 " The undersigned CHARLES JONGENEEL, Captain RNIA, Head of tar Crimes Section of NETHERLANDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NEFIS), being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states | that the annexed statement is a fullt true, complete and accurate k copy of the original Dutch document, entitled! Statement by MALKIAMJS AUGUSTIJN, drawn up by T.DE BREE, NCO RNIA, acting security officer, dated Koepang, i6th October 1945« No. 01,1/21 Al. 1456R, with annexed situation sketch,- which original document is a part of the official records NEK I S . signatures /a/ fiWA.HT.Tg-. .TOMftWrngRT. ( S E A L ) Bntavia, 28th August / Subscribed and sworn to before me, K.A. DE V/EEHD, LL.D., Major Artillery RNIA, Senior Official attached to the Office of the Attorney-General N.E.I. /b/ K.A. DE VfiSEHD. Page 2 Translation of the Dutch original. -STATEMENT- Today, the l6th of October 1945> at 3 pm, a person, unknown to me appeared before me T. DE BEEE, vf.O.I., in charge of security investigation at Koepang - who, when questioned, gave as his names MELKIAMJS AUGUSTUN, born at Kisar-Aboesoer, ape 43 years, occupation none. He stated as follows? About the 13th or together with the jTfipflnagp mn-pjnpis tn Softwa-N.lfffl̂ tuguese T imorX^lnd e r the carina nd of a Japanese officer, with the rank of a captain. I was ordered to function as an interpreter^ On the second day at Soeway some Portuguese Timorese natives re- ported to the Japanese that they had discovered gin European,^ who was hiding himself not far away in the bush. Immediately about 10 Japanese soldiers and about 10 Port. Timorese natives went to the bush to capture the mentioned European. I do not knoyj any of the men who went on this patrol. It was still before 12 am of this same day that the patrol re- turned with an European, dressed., in...the uniform of .the N = Io Army, green trousers, puttees, green shirt, green forage-cap. Because of the distance (about 60 metres) I did not recognize him. About 3 nm. t-HJRAEAI.il. the Japanese intf>-i»pTv>tftr, came to me and asked me whether 2 knew the sub-lieutenant SIEEK5NS. I answered in the affirmative, because I knew sub-lieutenant SIEFTCHNC at Koepang where he lived in the "ward of Mardeka. After that this MJRAK/J.'I ^VPH mg> whether LjLaiffiiLJzg, behead an Burapfifta.. I an- swered that I did not dare to do that. He asked the same question to Kapipann and got the same answer. Then MJRAKAI.H said to rnes liy sword has eaten already many persons and today my sword will eat another ona." After that he left us. At about 6 pei. of the same day 1 saw that sub-lieutenant SIEF. E M S was brought to already dug hole. He had to step into that hole and after that he was blindfolded with a white cloth. Then l0 soldiers took their stand at one side of the grave while two officers stood at the other side. HJRAKjlMI came and toqk his stand-between these officers, drew his sword, grasped it with both his harjs and beheaded., hit victim with the cry of* "Tennc He Ik a. * Head .-.nd body fell into the grave after which the Japanese left Eoc. No. 5585 Page 3 the place and our patrol continued itm^rch* • 111 • • —•' • """"" " I dare to affinri this statement on oath8 Koepang the 16th of October 1945 • Signed (T. de 3REE) 7/cOoI. in charge of security investigations The aooearer signed M. AUGUSTON- This statement is read to M.AUGU2TUN in a translation from the Dutch in to the Malay language in the presence of S.SAURtkKI and D. KJNNING - The witnessess Signed i Signed s So SAU3AKI D„ KENNING- DOCUMENT NO. 5578 / C E R T I F I C A T E PAGE 1 The undersigned CHARLES JONGENEEL, first Lieutenant R.N.IiA., head of the War Crimes Section of NETHERLANDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SER7ICE (NEFIS) being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the annexed report to a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original document entitled} "Report concerning Criminals of War Working Party Flores, drawn up hy Capt. A.C.J, de TEOUARS, Ldst soldier C.E. BRANTS and Res. 1st Lt. H.E.J, de VRIES, No, OM 205/E," which document is a part of the official records of the NEFIS. SIGNATURE: ( ) /s/( Ch. Jongeneel ) ( S E A L ) BATAVIA, June 7th 1946 Subscribed and sworn to before me K. A. de WEERD, first Lieutenant R.N.I.A., Higher Official attached to the office of the Attorney General N.E.I. /s/ K. A. de Weerd DOCUMENT NO. 5578 PAGE 2 OM 203/E CRIMINALS OP WAR WORKING PARTY MOKES As criminals of war are considered, all Japanese instances, authorities and military men (Korean guards incl.) who can "be made responsible for, we well as those directly or indirectly concerned with, the undermentioned facts that are regarded as war crimes: A. The using of Ps/W to execute military works, viz. unloading war materials (oenzine, oil, areoplane horns) and designing military airbases. Reference is made to which is mentioned in enclosed report. Responsible herefore are held the Japanese command of the F.O.W. camps in the area concerned and the possible higher military instance which gave orders hereto to this command. B. To make a working party as the undermentioned of a great number of Ps/W who on account of their age, physical condition and/or condition of health ought not to have been brought into consideration. Reference to statement sub "Composition of transport" Responsible herefore are the instances mentioned sub A, the medical authorities, who on 18th April 1S43 inspected at Tjimahi the departing persons, the senior officer who addressed them on April previous to 18th at Sourabaya and possible also the Japanese camp commandant ASHITA who the day before inspected them personally. C. The transport of Ps/W to Plores under conditions (want of accommodation and hygienic supplies on the ships, inadequate food, want of medicines and heavy unloading work), that inevitably led to weakening, illness and death. Reference to statement on "Outward voyage Sourabaya-Flores". Responsible herefore are the instances mentioned sub A/ and -persons, the authorities specially charged with the regulation of the vo:/age, and the on one of the vessels travelling commandant ASRITA, who neglected to make rules to ameliorate the situation. D. The transport of Ps/W Flores on ships that carried i.a. benzine, oil and. aeroplane bombs, as well as using the Ps/W to unload this cargo at places more or less esposed to bombardments (f.i. Laoeteng and Koepang), this without practising safety rules. Reference is made to the statement sub "Outward voyage Sourabaya - Flores (via Timor)". Responsible herefore are the instances mentioned sub C and the authorities with the exception of ASHITA (insofar as he at least in the point had no influence or authority). E. To make Fs/W reside at Maoemore (Flores) during many weeks without any covering, in the open air (incl. hundreds cf sick people, amongst whom many serious cases), in which conditions nursing of the patients was practically impossible through utter lack of hygienic supplies and the number of cases and deaths in this period increases in jumps. For further details reference is made tc the report sub III "Stay at Flores" under the headings "Blom-Camp" - Material care, 1st and 2nd Sickcamp (So-called Wulff-Camps) - Material care and health condition". Responsible EOCuMEST KO. 5578 PAGE 3 Responsible herefore are the instances and persons mentioned sub A the P/W Command at Ambon (under which resort also Flores fell), the camp commandant ASHITA and possibly the directing medical authorities (in as far as these knowing about the bad health conditions nevertheless neglected to have measures taken. F. The transport thereafter of Pa/W in barracks in which accommodation, hygienic supplies etc,offered insufficient opportunity to prevent further spreading of diseases and to attain recovery of the already present patients, and of which the main part of the camp was situated in such a way in regard to the contiguous aerodrome, that there was continuous danger of bomb ardments and/or machinegunning, without there being any decisive safety measures. Reference is made to information re this in the report sub III "Stay at Flores" under the headings "Blom-camp-Material care-Safety/protection, "1st and 2nd Sick-Camp (also-called Wulff-camps) - Material care. Responsible herefore are the instances and authorities sub E. G. To supply inadequate food (which caused weakening and greater susceptibility for diseases and also deteriorated the possibilities for recovery of tho sick seriously) and insufficient medicines (which made recovery of many ill people and the prophylactic administration of medicines - specially quinine - impossible). For further details reference is made to the report sub III "Stay at Flores" under the headings "Elomp-camp & 1st and 2nd sickr-camps (so-called Wulff-cemps) - Material care. Responsible herefore are the instances and authorities mentioned sub E, the Japanese sergeant and orderly 1TAKAHARA and the^Korean hospital soldier (in as far as this one on his own account and purposely limited, the supply of medicines still further), the Korean intendant and guards, who regularly the neat meant for Ps/W and other things used for themselves and those Korean guard commandants and guards who most often the Central Purchase to get restoratives (egs f.i.) from the suppliers. H. To employ Fs/W in places exposed to attacks of allies planes (aerodromes, ports), as well as have them carry out heavy duties under unfavorable conditions (long working hours, inadequate food, etc.) and by persons not fit for it (amongst others ill uersons indicated by the guard OYAMA). Responsible herefore are the instances and authorities mentioned sub A, as well as the Japanese and Korean military men who are guilty, directly or indirectly, of above mentioned. J. The absolute lack of immediate management by the Japanese camp commandant and his subaltern officers (excl. Aoki), the practical impossibility for the Netherlands camp commandant to contact firstmentioned, and to obtain any amelioration with lastmentioned (excl.Aoki) Reference to report sub III "Stay at Flores" behaviour of the guards. Responsible herefore are the authorities mentioned sub A, the Japanese camp commandant and subaltern officers. K. The execution of the escaped Fs/'v Yisser and the murder of the Borgman. Reference to report sub III "Stay at Flores" - Execution/murder. Responsible herefore are the Japanese camp commandant, all high authorities, who ordered or approved of Visser's execution and / possible D0CUM22TT NO. 5578 PAGE 4 possible the Korean guard, who shot Borgman. L. The death of 214 Ps/W during; the transport to/from and the stay at Flores, without mentioning the later occuring deaths and the permanent weakening of tens other victims of this working party. Responsible herefore are all abovementioned sub A up till and including I instances, authorities, officers, subaltern officers and men. I. The utterly unnecessary torturing, beating, maltreating, of and wresting and stealing from Fs/W by the greater part of the Korean Guard and the maltreatment by the interpreter ASUMA, against which the Japanese camp commandant and his N.C.O.'s (sergeant major Aoki Excepted) did not act, or if he did inadequately. Further details in report sub II "Stay at Flores" - behavious of guards. Responsible herefore are the instances and authorities sub A, as well as the Japanese and Korean military men, who directly or indirectly have been guilty abovementioned. I COMPOSITION OF TRANSPORT Because at present the completed details about the composition of the Flores-transport cannot be disposed of, we have to be satisfied with the information that the total number of 2079 men consisted of a contingent of 1974 men for the P/W camp at Tjimahi (4th/9th bataljon) and the remainder of 105 men from the P/W caag? at Sourabaya (Jaarmarkt) - resulting in the liquidation of this camp. Attention is drawn to the fact the contingent from Tjimahi especially consisted of a great number of older and physically weak people, apparent from the fact that the death list of this transport counted 90 deceased of above 40 years of age, ex-Tjimahi. It is accepted that the Japanese authorities a. who ordered the composition of the Tjimahi-contingent of this transport to the Netherlands commandant of the P/W canrp at that place: b. who inspected the Ps/W who were indicated by lastmentioned for this transport, on 18th April 1943 in the presence of the Netherlands camp commandant at Tjimahi, c. who visited the departing on the morning of embarkation (April 1943) at Sourabaya (Jaarmarkt, namely the senior officer who addressed them on that occasion. Beforehand must have known the destination of the voyage, as well as the transport condition, the accommodation at Flores and other things, as well as the duty-work to be done there. Apart from the question in how far the health condition and age of the indicated Ps/W was taken into consideration in the instruction to the Netherlands camp commandant at Tjimahi. it has to be stated that the Japanese authorities at abovementioned inspection in any case could have been that it could be accepted of a great part of the persons who were not excluded on account of their health, and. later taken of this list, that they on account of their age and physical condition reasonably could have been equal to the voyage and the employment. This not in connection with the second Question whether at that moment they knew that among the indicated persons there were a number of those who recently had been dismissed from hospital and were not quite recovered yet, and whether they knew that among those who were left behind (about men) there were adequate young and strong persons to take the place in the transport for the unfit. / Although DOCUMENT HO. 5578 PAGE 5 Although it is to he doubted whether the Japanese commandant of the transport, Lt. ASHITA, at the moment he held the inspection prior to the departure from Sourahaya, might have "been ahle to make alterations, it must he stated, that mentioned ASHITA ought to have known that after a number of sick, weak and older (above 50 years of age) people had been singled out, part of the departing was not strong enough to outlive this escapade. In any case ASHITA who was conversant with the age and outward appearance of the departing, utterly neglected to take this into consideration during the voyage and the stay at Elores. OUTWARD 70YAGE SOURABAYA - ELCHES (via TIMOR). EMMRKMEFT AT SOURABAYA Hygienic supplies. By the way of a "show" the people who baa to embark were gathered in an open sned us eg jnf or a a, -ore des infected by a group of Japanese orderlies dressed in whit? coats and with, mouth-masks, that is to say £iEc£e3T"SnST'loaded h's' they' were with their luggage they had to walk along a •pumping apparatus and were bedustjod with an unknown liquid. (This is only mentioned as a contrast of this comedy on the one side and the bad conditions, hygienic during the progress of this voyage on the other side. "Behaviour of the guards. Already directly after arrival at Sourabaya the Korean guards started to act palpably. During embarkation the "big luggage" (field sacks etc.) was roughly snatched away from the Ps/W and flung on a. stack; the men themselves were driven into the holds with pushes, beatings and bad language. SEA VOYAGE SOURABAYA - MAOSMERS "(ELORES). Material care. Accommodation. The accommodation on each of the three ships was absolutely inadequate. In the between decks were sleeping places of wood at the height of one meter, on which and under which there was only room for the Ps/W, when all sat down hunched up; part of the people stayed and slept on the uncovered upper deck (in between the winches, in the machine-oil, and up and under the freight cars, next to the pigsties and ths latrines) and all this often during heavy rains at night); as a result thereof the situation in the hold became better; to lay down stretched out, however, was impossible, there was no passage, the light was inadequate or there was no light at all. Therefore it was impossible for many (especially for stomach-patient) to reach the latrine on the upper docks in time, so that the excrements dropped along the ladders in the holds and the sleeping places and soiled those sleeping under it; respectively infected them. Especially the first nights many slept standing upright. Protest with the Japanese guards resulted in the advice to sleep in turns. The abovementioned counted for the s.s. "Tasima Maru" ad about 7000 tons (on which the between deck of hold II and the midship's betweendeck were available for 1030 men, but 150 to 200 men stayed on deck uncovered, which stay was still made more difficult when between Dilly and Koepang 3 loading prahoes still more limited the sleepingplaces and hindered the ventilation in the holds) as well as for the s.s. "Tensio Maru" ad 500C to oOOO tons (here the between deck of hold I and in the beginning part of the oentrecastle at star- board was available for 945 men); Concerning last mentioned ship it is told that after a few days the Ps/W were removed from the oentrecastle and first / DOCUMENT HO. 5578 PAGE 6 had to find places on deck upon hold II and later on (after unlsading at Dilly Laoeteng and Eoepang) when already part of the men were sick, to- gether with others in the hold of health I viz. upon a row of standing drums, filled with oil and "benzine. The third ship of about 4500 tons (name unknown) contained 104 Fs/'W who together with 200 to 300 coolies from Singapore (Malays, Chinese, British Indians) and a number of Madurese prahoe-slcippers were lodged in the betweendeck of hatch I which also had wooden pieces to sleep; outstretched position was possible, but the room in width vras very narrow; At Eoepang accommodation got still worse because &n~thc-. -same'hold' a number of sick and, during the bombins of the aerodrome at night there, hurt Japanese were lodged. Hygienic supplies. The hygienic supplies on the ships were very inadequate. The latrine-sheds built of wood and alongside the gangway of the fore-part of nhe ship contained at the most 5 squatting places and 2 urinaries, which were often closed (during unloading f.i.) or reserved for the Japanese; The decline of the gutter and the amount of water available were insufficient; the waste-pipe outside the deck was too short causing the excrements to be spread over the deck at the smallest gust of wind even, and especially over the only place where t?e food had to be distributed and in the neighbourhood whereof the greater part of the Ps/W had to eat. The lack of latrines was apparent through the fact because of the long queues which practically night and day were waiting in front of the lavatories many were forced to discharge on deck which especially at night caused many sources of infection. The abovementioned counts for all three ships to about the same extent. The "Tasima Maru" as well as the "Tensio Maru" had a latrine shed at starboard and at larboard with 3 squatting places and. 1 urinary, which larboard shed of lastmentioned vessel practically the whole day reserved for the Japanese, whilst at firstmentioned ship part of the latrines at irregular interval?? was closed for Fs/W# On the third ship only 2 of the 3 squatting places in the latrineshed. were available for the 104 Ps/W and 250 coolies, whilst there was no urinary. Opportunity to bathe and wash was at none of the ships, the little water which the Ps/¥ sometimes got was as a rule hardly enough to wash up the eating pans. The washing of clothes was out of the question which had disastruous result for many stomach-patient naturally. To get rid of rubbish was not taken cars of (and to throw it overboard is forbidden in times of war). Medical Care. The modicincs especially meant and packed for this voyage were said to be put away in the hold at an unapproachable place. For this reason the repeated requests of our doctors to give some medicines, dressing material and disinfectants were refused; the supply thereof could only come from the very limited amount which our doctors and orderlies possessed. Needless to say what this meant during the extension of the number of stomach-patients (who mainly could be treated with magnesium sulphate and porridge diet) and infected wounds (as a result from the unloading duties). There was no room to nurse, to treat or to isolate. An improvised uncovered nursingroom on the poopdeck of the s.s. "Tasima Maru", as well as a shed situated behind the kitchen and used as "isolation shed", which gave place for 3 patients appeared to be utterly insufficient. On the s.s. "Tensio Maru" there was no nursingroom available; in the last days a little corner on the upperdeck was needed for seriously ill DOCUMENT IIO. 5578 PAGE 7 ill dysentery cases. Bed pans were not available on any of the ships; serious cases had to use a l:'E.i-ted number os little tons and backet, which through lack cf water could not be cloaned sufficiently. Pood surrplies. Tho food supply on all ships was wholly inadequate. The food mainly consisted of small amounts of rice and waloe, sometimes added with a little meat or fish, or left-overs from the Japanese kitchen. Usually the m<'als were limited to 2 per day. On the s.s. "Tcnsio Maria' the food was cooked with seawater - in order to economize on salt - and the rice that was always served as a porridge was mixed vith undigestable kedelehbeans; this last fact added to the quick extension of the number of stomach patients; the 104 Ps/W on the ship with unknown name have been privileged above the others to a cortain extent because theyjhad the same food as the 250 coolies traveling with them. The distribution of drink was limited to 2 cups "tea" per day on every ship and thus also inadequate. DUTIES. S-port of duty. During the voyage the duties existed of heavy unloading at Dilly, Laoeteng and Koopang, at a quick rate and during continuous chasing up. Moreover, tho people often had to stand in the water more than waist high during hours to land the goods (bombs, benzine, oil, and food) from the unloading cra.fts. That this added to the ouick extension of the number of stomach-patients is self-explanatory. Physical condition of tho:- working- -parties. Not mentioning the fact that the bad accommodation and food during the previous days of the voyage in general already deteriorated the condition of the Ps/W and a great number on account of their age, physical condition and their not being in training was totally unofficient for this work, it has to bo stated, that on p.s. "Tasima Maru" also had to go on duty those Ps/W who were declared ill by our doctors a,nd they were beaten out of the holds by the guards. Therefore it is not very amazing that f.i. it happened on the "Tasima, Maru" that out of the 300 on duty 100 men had to return to tho ship on account of stomach troubles and exhaustion. Duration of the duty/Rests. The unloading duties lasted about from S o'clock a.m.. to 3 p.m. and sometimes (f.i. at Eoepang) until far after midnight. The rests during the duties usually was very short as well as the official rests (for meals); at Koopang even no rest was given during the last day. The food was distributed by tho ships. The drinking supply was short a.nd at Koopang often inadequate. Safety/ s af e—,?ua.rd ing. On board the rshj-os. During unloading at Dilly, Laoeteng and Eorpang it appeared tnr.t the cargo of the ships amongst other things consisted of a considerable amounts of benzine, oil and a-eroplano bombs, which were located on the forepart of the ship in the holds under the betweendecks, were tho Ps/W stayed. The abovementionod counts for each of the 3 ships, and also has to bo mentioned the fact that on the s.s, "Tensio Mara" during the last part of the voyage a remainder of filled benzine - and oil-drums in the hold under hatch I were placed. In the quality of safe-guarding there were sloops, enough for a cargo ship crew in normal times. Moreover, a limited number of rafts and a heap of life-belts, which were not allowed to be distributed. Each ship was supplied with A.A, battery (incl. operators) which was used during the / bombing DOCUMENT NO. 5578 PaGS 8 bombing of the aerodrome Hoepang on the s.s. "Tasima ̂ aiu" lying on the roads. The ships have been convoyed during the whole voyage by a Japanese corvette. Purina duty-workc During unloading at Dilly, Laoeteng and Koepang (which 2 lastraentioned places regularly subject to bombing! no regulations or precautions for the safety / safeguarding of the Ps/W who had to land the con- traband were taken. Daring the bombing of the aerodrome at Aoepang in the night of 7/8 May 1943 those on duty ashore had to try to find cover on their own initiative. Health condition. The bad accommodation, the very bad hygienic precautions, the fact that it was impossible to do proper nursing, the inadequate food and the heavy unloading duties have been the causes that the health condition grew worse every day> At the disembarkation at j%oemere f.i. there were already 126 dysentery cases amongst the Ps/W of s.s, "Tasima ̂ aru", 63 of which (incl, 25 very) serious. It was the same on the other ships, only the amounts were smaller» Deaths. On juay 1943 the first victim died of dysentery and heart- berri? on the s.s. "Tasima Maru". Although a funeral ashore was possible as the ship was in the ̂ cepang roads, a request there-to was refused and the corpse was put overboard after leaving Koepang. On board the third (name unknown) ship lying on the Maoemere roads en 11th iJhy 1943 the second death occurred:. Behaviour of guards. Jananese commandant and IT. 0a0„ ' s-. The Japanese commandant as well as the Japanese N.C.O.'s never minded the ̂ s/N during the voyage and left the management entirely to the Korean guards; the Japanese interpreter AJUIwA, who personally maltreated vbeating with a piece of wood and kicking) a number of Ps/t>r. Korean .u.usrds» Although these men were not yet "in full swing" on the ships, some of them amongst others the guards TAMJRA and MATSUQKA who on the s.s. "Tasima MaruR beat the sick out of the holds for duty-work (as already mentioned above) directly applied themselves to beating ana maltreating. It is remarkable that as from the disembarkation on this point they inspirited. D5BAKKATI0N A! k̂ OlSltiRJ. s.s. "Tasima —aru'1 the Ps/«T of this ship were disembarked on the 10th of &ay 1943• During this the sick had to wait in a lighter alongside for a tugboat during 2 hours in the burning sun. After they had waited a considerable time on a shadowless tennis court (where they had to discharge in gutters and slokans) the serious cases were transported on trucks to the coconut garden announced as a hospital, which later became known as the 1st "ulff camp (so undermentioned). The less seriously ill patients originally would have been transported by truck, but finally they had to walk to their destination (l-|km). The healthy Ps/W instantaneously had to start unloading the ship and only arrived in "camp" at night at about 11 o'clock, s as. "Teasio On ̂ ay the 11th, 1943; the ?s/"? of this ship were disembarked. The Norean Guards crammed the landing sloops under much shouting and beating, with healthy as well as with sick parsons (amongst whom very serious cases); for the embarkation of lastmentioned no precautions were mc.de, neither for the stay on board the sloops (the greater part had to stand). Most of the people had to st=_y on the uncovered tennis court from about 10 a.m. until 3 a.m. and to discharge gutter, slokans buckets and basins had to be used. The stick persons (incl, the very ill-' finally had to walk staggering to the "1st Wulff camp" (as mentioned above), notwithstanding transport by car had been promised: the healthy departed walking to the coconut garden, located 3 km East from ̂ koemore, which later on became the "Blom camp" ./IIIoTAY DOCUMENT NO. 5578 PAGE 9 OM 206/E III STAY AT ITLOBES "BLOM CAMP" Material Care Accommodatioif. When tho healthy Ps/W arrived on May 10th, 1343 ah out 5 p.m. in the coconut garden meant as a "cemp" and situated on the shore 3 km East of Maoemere (see sleet oh, App. A), accommodation consisted of 2 native houses, which the guards immediately took. The Ps/W had to lie down in the open air, with hardly time to unpack or to spread, out their mats and (during the next weeks) they were unable often to fix their mosquito-nets, having no means of doing so. This to a great extent caused the malaria epidemics later on; This situation lasted for until, after about 2 weeks the first barracks were ready (the building of which could begin after the harbour-duties were finished) . First the "healthy1* people were lodged the sick got cover last (after 4 weeks). The barracks were primitive, people had to slee- p on tue ground (not before September were the rattan bunks made and put up), the roofs were far from water tight because of the coconut trees standing in the barracks and the barracks near the road suffered from dust, caused by the bullock-carts which was made worse by the aeroplanes on the aerodrome; the lack of gutters - which were made later on - caused the rain to drain into the barracks. Special attention has to be drawn to the fact that no workers were available to improve camp or hospital. At night until the signal "lights out" (8.30) a small oil lamp was the- only illumination: Eygienic. -precautions. As a nursing room for the first weeks a fenced j off part of the coconut garden was used for this "sick garden" as a matter of I fact was at intervals cleared by the transfer cf serious cases to the sick- camp ("1st Wulff-campv') , but the finally the. sick barracks were the last ready, the inconvinccs of these sheds (constructed in the same way as the workers-sheds) showed themselves still more (m.i.) lack of sleeping bunks and the patients having to kneel for the doctors and orderlies was especially demonstrated when Dr. SCSOOBBL had to operate upon a. patient for appendicitis in the "kolong" under the floor of the so-called "doctors's ] house" (in which the medical department was lodged); the dust falling' from , the roof was caught by blankets. Medicines were supplied, inadequately. i Thus it happened f.i. during many serious malaria epidemics that there was no quinine available for we. ks, and only to patients with a temperature of over 40 degree pills could, given this was apparent when this resulted in malaria comatose, in which cases the lack of quinine invariably caused death. Only a few thermometers were available. For dysentery and other stomach diseases English salt was used; medicines were distributed only in very serious cases from those held by the doctors and orderlies. The same applies also to beri beri and other direanes for which medicines were inadequate. There were hardly ever sufficient dressing used. Preparations of yeast, kadeleh-milk, extracts of D.iohar leaves, and pater-hading rind and such like had to make up for the lack of medicines. The distribution of restoratives was out of the question; the only thing that could be done was to buy eggs which were offered at intervals in small \ quantities and usually were claimed by the Korean guards.1 The result was that many (for the greater part infected) wounds were cause. DOCUMENT NO. 5573 ?AGS 10 Clothing. To wear/carry along upperclothing was forbidden workers; pants hong like rags round their "bodies as a result of inadequate means of repairing and heavy wear, also through the washing with sea-water (originally without soap). Only after many months a limited amount of graygreen clothing mostly in too small sizes was distributed. Safety/Safe-guarding. In the camp. Enclosed drawing of the situation (End.A) points out the very dangerous location ef the camp near the aerodrome. (The end of the main landing dtrip was at a distance of 75 m from the barracks). Even if they wished to spare the adjacent Ps/W camp during a possible bombing, would be very much ehdangered. The came counts for a possible machine-gun attack on the adjacent Japanese barracks and those of the Korean guards.. The Japanese also saw this proves the facts that a Japanese sergeant-major expressed himself in the presence of some Ps/W as above. Protection against airplane attacks was not present in the first months. Later open (parallel to the road and the shore) not very deep trenches wore constructed, whilst still later a primitive camouflage was made (leaves upon the barracks); not considering the question whether these precautions ameliorated the safety of the Ps/V or not. During the fatigue, work. Precautions were neglected on the very vulnerable aerodrome work; in ease of ant.allied attack the order was to try to 3eek cover as veil as on the airbaso itself there was not enough care taken to safe-guard as appears from the fact what had the Ps/W put dynamite into pits despite the protests of the leader because no precautions were taken and whilst the Japanese themselves looked on from a considerable distance. Also with the harbour duties the risks were still greater (the Japanese airplanes were continually in the air and American planes machine- gunned a convoy entering the harbour (Mid.July 1 1943) every precautions were lacking. There were no shelters and the order was lately: go on working in case of air alarm and only look for cover when the airplanes appeared, bombing or strafing. 1st & 2nd Sick Camps (so-called "Wulff-Oainps") The coconut garden within which on the 10th of May 1343, the sick and healthy Ps/W from the s.s. "Tasima Maru" and on about 11th May 1943 the sick from the s.s. "Tensio Maru" were lodged, remained after the departure (about the 20th May) of the healthy people, exclusively a sick camp (the so-called 1st "!fulff-camp); on June 10th this camp was transferred as a whole to a barracks camp (the so-called 2nd "Wulff-Camp" which in the meantime had been built in the neighbourhood (about 300 m) and that was liquidated on to the sick department of the "Blom-Camp)". Material care. Accommodation. In the "1st Wulff-camp" there was no accommodation at all, except a kampong house and a store room that were taken by the Korean guards the first day and thereafter used as a dispensary and a store. Hundreds of sick as well as doctors and nurses, lay in the open air on the ground and the only cover was a number of hastily made improvised covers of mosquito nets (partially covered with banana leaves) for the most serious cases. The latter were transferred in 2 cases of heavy rain to an open goat stable; in one of these cases (29th May 1943) 2 men died in the dark whilst they lay there crowded, without bed-pans and making each other dirty. This appeared when daylight came; The transfer on 10th of July 1943 to the "2nd *Wuif f-camp" (which lasted, for lack of stretchers, from 10.30 a.m. / until DOCUMENT HO. 5578 PAGE 11 until 10.30 p.m.) made the situation no better insofar that part of the patients ooulri he lodged in 2 barracks accommodating 400 men normally, but now 550 sick); it was constructed the same way as the '^lorn-Camp" with all the inconveniences thereof (There were no bunks and the men had to sleep on the ground). Supply of food. As far as the food supplied by the Japanese the quantity, quality and change was inadequate during the whole stay at Flores, and the purchase on own initiative (part of the duty-money and officers ^salaries) through a centralised bureau lessened the number of diseases and deaths (beri-beri, oedema, pellagra, etc.) The Japanese food supply only consisted of rice (varying from 350 to 500 gr per day), waloe and later on kedelehbeans, while from time to time (in the beginning) small quantities lard sapi- or goe.ts meat and few times a 13ttle fish, fruit and green vegetables were distributed. To gather green vegetables (wild krokot i.e. sort of spinach) in the neighbourhood of the camp, only a few convalescents were available. Duties. Harbour-duties. Immediately on arrival the "Blom-Camp", FLORES the Ps/W dead tired from the voyage, had to unload the ships for 3 or 4 days and a number of ?s/W were beaten with a stick at the duty roll-call, ''his harbour-duty-work was repeated several times, when a group of ships anchored at the Maoemere roads/ harbour. These duties as a rule lasted a few days with a working-time of 8 hours work - 8 hours rest and in some cases 15 hours work - 8 hours rest, which rest included the walk to and from the harbour, (thus twice 3 km). During these duties part of the workers often, (also in the evening and at night), stood waist deep in the water to pick up the benzine drums and wood that was cast Overboard. The Japanese commands were confusing because each Japanese and Korean gave his own commands and orders the men wore continuously beaten and urged. "Karan-duties". To gather karang stones which oould be got at low tide in the neighbour of the camp as a rule convalescent sick were used. When the tide was coming in which time they had to stand in the water up to the knees; this had disastrous results for many stomach-patients and malaria cases who were reconvalescent. Although footwear was compulsory, made many work without shoes, which caused many cuts and infection. As result Aerodrome-duties. The main part of the duties were those on the so-called aerodrome (construction in total of 3 aerodromes); And the work wnica as a rule took place in mist and dust, consisted amongst other things of removing earth (often l,?m per person per day) to smooth the field, digging the drainage canals, digging out and canalizing already existing kali's, constructing blastproof shelters for airplanes, digging sand-digging wells etc. As well as of serving a stone-breaker, during whic£.._th.ey had to /w work without a stop in the burning sun, stone-gravel and dust., The working- time incl. rest was about 10 hours (7.15 a.m. to 5 o'clock pm.); later on when there were fatigue-duties the work stopped earlier. It has specially to be mentioned that as a rule people who were declared unfit by our doctors had to join the aerodrome-duties, they were appointed by the guards (especially by the Korean OYAMA who often himself kept the roll-call for the sick). Those who during the work dropped off on account of dysentery, fever or malaria (apor. 8 or 10 per dav) were allowed to return to the camp after / y lunch I DOCUMENT WO. 5578 PaGE 12 lunch with these who fetched the food at about 2 or 3 p.m. and on arrival in camp they usually were waited for by the camp conmandant, beaten and put to work or had to stand to attention until the main group of the workers returned to the camp some- hours later. Clothing and footwear. Footwear. The footwear the workers had brought with them (partly shoes distributed at Sourabaya) was soon worn out, so that very soon part of the workers had to walk barefooted work (di stance of lj, 5 and 6 km) and had to do their work there. The result was that many (for the greater part infected) wounds were caused. Clothing. To wear/carry along upperclothing was forbidden workers; pants hung liko rr .. round their bodies as a result of inadequate means of repairing and neavy wear- also through the washing with sea- water (originally without soap). Only .after many months a limited amount of graygreen clothing mostly in too .small sizes was distributed. Safotv/saf e-g-.uarding* „ In the camp. Enclosed drawing of the situation (Unci A.) points out the very dangerous location of the camp near the aerodrome. (The end of the main landing strip was at a distance of 75 from the barracks.) Even if they wished to spare the adjacent Ps/W camp during a possible bombing, it would be very much endangered. The same counts for a possible aachine-gun attack on the adjacent Japanese barracks and those of the Korean guards. That the Japanese also saw this proves the fact that a Japanese sergeant-major AQKI expressed himself in the presence of some Ps/W as above. . Protection against airplane attacks was not present in the first months. Later open (parallel to the road and the shore) not very deep trenches were constructed, whilst still later a primitive camouflage was made (leaves upon the barracks); not considering the question whether these precautions ameliorated the safety of the Ps/v? or not r***"" Purine the fatigue work. Precautions were neglocted on the very vulnerable aerodrome work; in case of an Allied attack the order was to try to seek cover as wall as possible in the adjacent shrubs. Also during work on the airbase itself tharo was not enough care taken to safe-guard as appears from the fact that had the Ps/>' put dynamite into pits despite the protests of the loader because no precautions were taken and whilst the Japanese themselves looked on from a considerable distance. Also with the harbour duties the risks were still greater (the Japanese airplanes were continually in the air and American planes machinegunned a convoy entering the harbour (mid July 1943) every precautions were lacking. There ware no shelters and the ordor was lately: go on working in case of air alarm and only look for cover when the airplanes appeared, bombing or strafing^ 1st & 2nd ^ick Camps (so-called "tfulff-camps") The coconut garden in which, on the 10th of May 1943 1 the sick and healthy Ps/W from the s.s. "Tasima Maru" and on about 11th May 1943 the sick from s.s. "Tensio Maru" ware lodged, remained after the departure (about the 20th miy) of the healthy people, exclusively a sick camp (tho so-called 1st "Wulff-Camp); on June 10th this camp r/as transferred as a whole to a barracks camp (the so-called 2nd B»/ulff-oamp") which in the meantime had been built in the neighbourhood (about 300 m) and that was liquidated on 9th September 1943» whilst the remainder of the sick were brought to the sick department of the "Blom-camp". Material Care. Accommodation. In the "1st '^ulff-Camp11 there was no accommodation /at DOCUKEHT SFO. 5578 , PAGE 13 at all, except a kampong house end a store room that were taken "by the ' Korean guards the first day and thereafter used as a dispensary and a store. Hundreds of sick as veil as doctors and nurses, lay in the open air on the ground and the only cover was a number of hastily made im- provised covers of mosquito nets (partially covered with "banana leases) for the most serious cases. The latter were transferred in 2 cases of heavy rain to an open goat stable; in one of these cases (29th May 1943) 2 men died in the dark whilst they lay there crowded, without bed-pans and making each other dirty. This appeared when daylight came. The transfer on 10th of July 1943 to the "2nd Wulff-camp" (which lasted, for lack of stretchers, from 10.36 a.m. until 10.30 p.m.) made the situation better.insofar that part of the patients could be lodged in 2 barracks i (accommodating 400 men normally, but now 550 sick); it was constructed the same way as the "Blorn-camp" with all the inconveniences thereof (there were no bunks and the men had to sleep on the ground). Appr. 200 men, who j had no room in these barracks were: a. serious patients (who could only , use .the trench latrines and on that account were brought to the barracks); i b. most of the convalescent patients; Both groups, origins,lly. stayed, in the open air, but later on each got 3 wooa barracks for housing nuilt by latter. The overlies had to "Be lodged in a space under the floor of the doctor's house. The kitchen accommodation in both camps was very poor; in the 1st camp there was no accommodation at all and they had to make the best of an improvised kitchen. There was no illumination and if any was very inadequate. Only 5 oil lamps for the whole of the ward of the 2nd Camp were available. 1 \ Hygienic precautions. In the "1st Wulff-camp" no bedpans were available. In the ward for serious patients a little hole was dug next to each bed and the patients had to roll over it. Because a stool of 40 to 60 , times a day was not an exception, time and again new holes had to be dug j round the patient until that was impossible and a new bed had to be found. j In case the patient was too weak to roll over to the hole next to their bed one was dug: under it, and through the sleeping mat. In the beginning there was no water to wash the patients let alone clean their dirty clothes, j and therefore they lay in this ward with uncovered (or slightly covered) under- part of the body, which was dirt;?- from excrement and flies; in many cases j bed-sore patients had fist deep wounded filled with mites (In the 2nd j Wulff-camp" the discharging system with holes had to go on until finally some bedpans became available and the serious patients could be lodged in the wood barracks. In the ward for less seriously ill people cans could be used which had to be emptied in a dry ditch; later on here also trench latrine were built as in the ward for convalescent patients, in which j this system was used, only the convalescent patients had to dump and redig j these latrines themselves'. In the "2nd Wulf f-camp usually these, trenches vrere deeper (because of the ground water), but the small distance ! from the ward for lightly ill caused a considerable plague of flies. Lack of bathing and washing opportunity is apparent from the fact that during the first 3 weeks doctors and nursing personnel, only three times had the" opportunity to wash themselves with dry water from a well near a kamp«ng house. • Medical care. Hot only lack of accommodation and hygienic pre- cautions but also intense shortage of medicines and dressing material v < / V made DOCUMENT NO. 557)3 PAGE 14 made application of medical care very difficult, often even impossible. A Here also in the beginning the medicines which the doctors and orderlies possessed, had to be used. The official soatres, taken along from Java, became available only a week after arrival notwithstanding many repeated, requests on account of the growing number of serious cases which were likely to die. A somewhat larger supply therefore was at our disposal, but often not the medicines which were most badly needed. Instruments were not available. Pood sup-plies. The Japanese only supplied rice and waloe. The first week it was prohibited to buy additional food but insufficient guard aided an individual "kawat" commerce, which of course the walking patients got first and made supply to the serious patients difficult. The purchase of pork ameliorated the household a bit. But the supply of j milk by the Soman Catholic Mission for the serious patients was forbidden ? after a few days, while the purchase of other restoratives (eggs, fish, fruit; was very much thwarted and often made impossible because the Korean Guards themselves bought and stole these articles, or they made such a maximum price for our purchase, that the sellers who sympathised and helped j us very much, had to return without effect. The meat meant for the sick camp butchered in the "Blom-camp" only arrived a few times. The Korean charged with the intendenco usually used this for his own means. On arrival in the "1st Wulff-camp" there was only one well which had to be used for the kitchen; the first day there was no drinking water at all and thereafter for a long time the water was fetched with difficulty from a j distant well, resulting in a poor distribution of tea to patients who often \ through loss of liquid resulting from dysentery were very thirsty and they clandestinely drank coconut milk and so made their troubles worse. j Later on there came Borne improvement in the situation. Duties. Kursin&. The number of nursing orderlies was so small, that the j orderlies had to do too heavy work, had too little rest and as a result of the bad accommodation and food relapsed and became patients. j Other duties. The first 10 days the healthy people staying in the "1st Wulff-camp", who were not incorporated for harbour duty could be used but afterwards convalescents must be used for other duties (with exception of kitchen duty, which must be done by non-patients). Digging of latrines, ; cleaning of the camp, bearing of water in heavy casks, which when they are empty must be carried by 4 bearers, who must change after ICO M., dis- tributing of food, making graves, bearing and cremation of corpses, mugi, ' be done by convalescents. Tho result was that there were daily relapses. v Safety/safety-measures. — ' The boundary of the "1st Wulff-Camp" was made by a road, a dry gutter, and an imaginary lino along some separate bushed. In this way it was very difficult, especially in the evening and at night, to know of you was inside or outside, the boundary, so that the POW's were not safe from the guards in case of real or pretended passing the boundary (see case Borman). The Korean guards seldom patrolled around the camp, so that in fact the responsibility was for the Dutch camp command. Acting of guards. Japanese Commander and warrant-officer. Japanese commander. The "Japanese commander of the Flores-camps, Lieutenant ASHITA, was known /fi / during DOCUMENT NO. 557)3 PAGE 15 during his residence on Elores (as on the sea voyages) as a person, who never interfered with the direct command of the camps. He lived during the greatest pert of his residence there in the village of Maoemere, he never came in the camp of sick persons (once he walked through the "2nd Wulff-Camp" with a. handkerchief to his nose and mouth) and very seldom in the "Blorn-camp" (at the most once a week) f] Only to the ceremony of "bowing at a funeral did he give his attention (unesteemed "being too late, so that the cremation could take place in the evening). The only purpose for his visits to the "Blom-Camp" was the dentist and painting, later he gave his attention to the strength of the "barbed wire fence of the cam}? and after- wards made concentration space between the sheds o5 sick persons, in case of alarm. The Dutch Camp commander was never given the opportunity to speak with him. In the rare cases when you could speak to him he listened ahsentmindedly and uninterestedly and re&ooed negatively to each -urgent request or proposal hy being silent and ending the conversation by walking away without answering'. In the first months he had given the direct command, by passing his warrant officers into hands of his JCorean confident, the guard OYAMA, who was responsible for a reign of terror71 This reign of terror was ended by the Japanese Sergeant Major not act as'""leader" and Japanese warrant officers were appointed to command. We cannot judge if the attitude of the warrant officers SAKSMOTA, KASIKAWA, ISHI, NAKAHAEA and the interpreter ASUKA was a result of a lack of help from the Japanese camp commander. Their effort to get action from ASEITA on the illtreatment of Captain De Thoars gives an indication in that direction. But the real fact is that the warrant-officers (with exception of AOKI) never inter- fered with the daily matters and the behaviour of the JCorean guards_, so that the impropriety of the Elores-camps was partly a resuiT"_oi tiicir attitude. Sergeant-Major AOKI was the man, who has taken active part in camp affairs, corrected the situation, never beaten anyone, stopped the misdemeanour of the Korean guards, his attitude and measures were human, a great difference with the attitude of the others. For a proper under- standing it must be known that the other warrant officers (with exception of the interpreter, ASUMA, who committed many brutalities) did not illtreat the PONs directly. They did not oppose or limit the illtreatment of the guards in contrast with AOKI. Korean Guards. With a single exception fif*" ri'lVt1"-.". themselves during the whole period on FlofTnr-to the FONT. That it became a little bit better during the last months was exclusively the result of the long stay there and not of human feelings. The really unlimited power of the guard commanders, duty loaders, intondants, soldiers of the day end others functionaries were abused by measures, which resulted in illtreatment of the PONs and advantage to themselves. The orders and the control for the lining up and cleaning' of dust-bins, the giving of the military salute, the regular and repeated effort at extortion of watches, fountain pens and clotches, the theft/embezzlement of meat and other food for the POWs, the many cases of bad behaviour in the camp as a result of drunkeness and the forcing, under menace, of unmoral acts, also the punishment for real or fancied offences, the slapping (or orders to others to slap) of the face, the hitting of head and body with bamboo, cane or rifle butt, etc. This gave in the camps of sick persons and in the camp of working people (incl. sick department), a nervous uncertainty, the best example for this was the calling DOCUMENT ITO. 5578 •n A p-n -1 n ' - . vjr.. • i J . ' calling of the name of the new acting guard, commandant, which name went through the camp immediately, to give the POWs the opportunity to have time for makinr preparations for the special "hobby" and the punishment. In general thexO was no consideration "by the Korean guards for the sick persons, no devotion for deaths, no human treatment of the POWs. There can "be ma.de an exception for some Japanese and specially for the two Christian- Koreans, who gave a quantity of cigarettes as a present to "be divided between the POWs on Christmas night 1S43 (as a present). Ill treatments. It is impossible to give all details in this statement. It is possible only to give the worst offenders (with.some examples their behaviour) and the names of some other guards.) (H) ITO. Korean guard. One of the most terrible, who for preference beat his victims on the head with a rifle butt. 1. He kicked a dying patient in the ward of "serious sick persons" of the "1st Wulff-camp", because he could not give the ordered honours in a standing position. (Witness Lieutenant H.V. de Vries). 2. He beat an ill orderly (officially because he did not come at once to the sheds of ill people, but really for refusing to sell a watch of which he had already stopped the central purchase) and Dr. Wulff, as the. responsible physician, with 42 blows with a stem of a coconut leaf, whereby the left side of the body of the latter was bruised from shoulder to knee. 3. He maltreated the Dutch Camp commandant Blom, while he was ill, because he complained of the increasing maltreatments. 4. He maltreated Lt. S0EBE1TS and Dr. EIS3ACH in the Taliboran camp, broke the arm of POW EEKHOE and beat one of the buyers so severely that he got a rupture of the ear-drum. CYAMA.. .Xorean guard. About his reign of terror see the aforementioned explanation. 1. He interfered during this period with the sick report and sent malaria and dysentery patients with fever on duty to the aerodrome. 2. Ee beat sick POWs who returned from their duty and some beri-beri patients with a rifle butt. 3. Serious illtreatment of the Bes. 1st Lt. P.W. STEElif (fearpschycosis during following dysentery) which indirectly resulted in death of this person. 4. Very serious illtreatment of the landstorm-sergeant BROUWER and of Lt. HAEMSBtT (in connection escape of some soldiers of his platoon) ARAY - Korean guard. This man committed serious maltreatment not only as a leader of the working-party, but also in other cases. 1. In the ward "seriously ill patients" of the "1st WTJLFB-camp" he kicked a very sick patient on the head, because he did not "lay at attention". 2. Maltreated with a coconut-rib a group of convalescents of the "1st WULEE-camp" (with Dermission of the guard.-commandant) who were looking for medicinal herb's and after that made them kneel in the sun for some hours. 3. Beat up the part of the campstaff of the "2nd KULEE-camp" at that moment ava.ila.ble because of an "offence" of no importance (ash tra; = not wholly clean) and after that punched them in the face for a long time. 4. "Kicked sergeant CHAVALJl'iES in the hospital" (with a kidney injury and a broken arm). / MATSUOKA DOGUl̂ iEiTT HQ. PAGE 17 MATSUOKA - KftX&an guardJ Of the Korean guards this one was the most ... — • , r on horrible t y p & _ 1. Summoned all the officers in camp Taliboera to ; the guardhouse and made them kneel town and kicked and beat them with sticks without any reason at all, only because he d'i'd not like the human behavioffir of the Japanese /j camp comma^.a^'., ' . '"""" """••" , ' / "g. "In the~*Xst"WUirP-damp1' he kicked a sick (late^ dn'he died) POW Mr.. J, A, JEUSSIIGrE on the'leg causing a wound 10 cm. long to the bone be- cause he was late in lying to attention and beat him,once again. 3, Tried to induce some'young' P.O.W.s to commit homosexuality under threats (case van BEES). ASUMA - Japanese interpreter. This man was guilty of brutality several times not only during the voyage to and back, but also during the stay in Flores, 1, Serious maltreatment of Lieutenants HARMSEN and HANGEVELD. 3. Kicked his shoe to pieces against the head of P.O.W. JOB. KASHIMURA ~ Korean guard& Next to some cases of maltreatment he was extremelj (ClAUS) keen ©h making the sick who come back from their duty on the aerodrome stand at attention at the guard hsuse. He beat them up or sent them back again to tKelr^work until the working-party as a whole came back. YAHAMQTO -F Korean guard/)leader of working patients. In last mentioned function heNjEB^B'WHWfl^imes guilty to maltreatment, refer to case de Thoiiars.., MAKIAMA. MASIYAMA. HAZAHARA. KIAMA. YAMASAKI. TAKAMIUI and TAMURA NAMES WHICH must be added to the list to illustrate the we comment on two more cases of illtreatment. The case of Captain DE THOUARS. As a rule the Capt. of inf. BE THOUARS acted as Dutch duty-commandant during the days of disembarkation at the harbour of Maoemere and immediately afterwards. May 13th 1943 he complained to the Jap. sgt. ISHI and sgt. SAKAMOTO of the excessive use of liquor (so called !rsoppie goenoeng") by the guards and he expected excesses based on the experiences of the former days. In the afternoon Cpt. DE THOUARS asked for and received permission from the jCorean head of the working-party YAMAMOTO to send back by truck to the "Blom-Camp" some dysentery-patients who just had disembarked and some people on duty who fell ill. After a heated argument between YAMAMOTO and the Korean driver before starting the latter hit the Captain in the face, while YAMAMOTO kicked him on the shins screaming "kiotske". Filled with indignation over this attitude Cpt. DE THOUARS, answered YAMAMOTO1s questions as following: that he (DE THOUARS) had fought against the Japs, now he was obliged to obey the orders of the Jap, and that he would again fight against the Japs, if there was a chance. Then he got a total of forty blows with a rifle butt from the Korean MAKIAMA. on the mouth, was hit and pushed about, while in the meantime YAMAMOTO tried all sorts of J I U - J I T B U - T R L C K G ^ C I N H I M . Soon aTxter that Sg. appeared again on the scene and through him Cpt. DE THOUARS was able to tell the camp commandant his complaint. YAMAMOTO answered during this very superficial interrogation that that reason of the maltreatment was that cpt. DE THOUARS without his knowledge sent the sick people of two kinds (disembarking people and duties) in one car, which caused confusion. The result of the illtreatment was a light concussion of the brain, an effusion over the whole body and a serious / wound DOCUMENT NO. 557)3 PAGE 18 wound of the right eye, causing a permanent injury. In the judgment of the 'i Medical Officer, I Marien, this illtreatment would have caused the death to ! a less athletic person than Capt. DE THOUARS.j ^ The case of BROUlfER. ' The 1st sergeant H.A.B. BROITWER, lie. 121304, was heaten hy OYAMA with a rifle "butt, hecau.se he did not see OYAMA, who walked outside the shed where BROWEP stayed, when the gedek was m. high and he did not how. He was sent to the Japanese guard house to kneel and was heaten again with the rifle "butt and was heated hy the rest of the guards for half an hour with bamboos, rifles and the open hand on head and body. BROUWER, who was knocked down with each blow collapsed when he went away to the gate of the camp and had to be carried to the hospital where he was for a week. The result of this illtreatment was as well as many painful spots over the body a terrific blue spot on the left buttock with a middle line of about 30 cm., also a torn eardrum. After his release from the hospital BROUWER stumbled for a long time before he could walk normally. State of health/De'ath/Execution/Murder. State of health. Tjy&ical information about the general state of health (the number of sick during the several periods on FLORES). is not available at the moment (they are buried in one of the Java-Camps together with other pieces. . Some informatiori"*ould give a sufficient vie\if of this case). The fact is ' P that until the first return transport (27th January 1944) 8O0~"men of the original 2079 men at the most favourable time were able to do their duty outside the camp and at the most unfavourable time not more than 350 men. These figures speak for themselves. The hospital in the "Blom-Camp" after the closing of the "2nd WULFF camp" held continually 1200 patients, except the sick in quarters in the department of healthy people. The kind of illness. During the first dysentery explosion there was the beginning of beri-beri, whilst afterwards there came a malaria-epidemic, which lasted until practically the end. There were daily many cases pellagra and wound infections. Dysentery had the most victims, while malaria, especially the malaria comatosa, and beri-beri the so-called wet-beri-beri were deadly. Elsewhere there's an explanation of how the plague of flies as a result of the open latrines and the pigsty nearby increased the dysentery cases, whilst i the malaria-infection came from the period in the open air and the appearance J of a. mosquito-swamp in the middle of the "Blom-Camp". Lack of accommodation, hygienical supplies and medicines, also bad food increased the sickness. Death. Number of death. Irrespective of the many deaths afterwards, during the voyage 213 POWs died, 2 on the outward voyage, 1 in the train during the return and 208 POWs died at Flores as a result of illness and two were killed by the Japanese. Below is a table giving the death in each age-group. Age Number of deaths Age Number of deaths Total In % of total deaths Total In of total deaths unknown 15 ? . 35-40 35 till 25 25-30 20 17 oil ? 40-45 45-50 54 35 2 61 16-g- 30-35 31 15 50-60 3 ii For the review of the deathrate for a week see the graph (supplement B) D0CU13BT 30. 5578 PAC-E 19 Funerals. The treatment of the corpses of the diseased, persons was very had. First they were laid on the ground under a blanket or a mosquito net, afterwards consent was given to build a mortuary. In the beginning there were coffins, but soon the dead were buried in mosquito nets and blankets and later on in goenisacks. The funerals from the both "Wulff-Camrps" took place on a stretcher; from the "Blomr-Camp" the corpses were carried away on an open truck together with serious ill persons, ''ho must be brought to tho "Wulff-Camp" . -̂ ater on the funeral took place in a little goods-van, where the attendants must sit on the ground around the coffin anc" which was driven so fast that it was very difficult to hold the body on their bier. During the first days there came the order to cremate the corpses of the dysentry-patients "on account of affection". This cremation took place in the vault and caused in the beginning some difficulties on account of inexperience (insufficient carbonization) specially when coconut husks must be used in place of wood. After a while they didn't give wood anymore for the crosses, so that 80 graves stayed without indication except a border of old coconuts. After the liquidation of the second Wulff Camp opportunity was only given 3 or 4 times to keep the cemetry in repair, (a coconut garden in the neighbourhood of the 2nd Wulff Camp). A request for hiring an Indonesian to do this, was refused, so that it soon became a wilderness. Execution/murder. The case of Vissar. Two days after the end of May 1943, when the section \ commander in charge, of the POW Visser, missed him, news was given that Visser was arrested by some Japanese sailors, who saw him walking K.M. east of the Camp. It may be concluded that this POW escaped the Camp, but identification never took place. We learnt from a number of items aboxit trial and execution and from the fact that in those days a shift of .Kn-ropfl ̂ Tarrig wpnt off with rifles ana shovels, to come back after a short time, and from the fact that the Japanese interpreter ASUMA was seen with 'Ljaapp't ynalnj"^, that he had been executed. TJp to now it is unknown where, in which manner and after which trial this took pla.ee. The case of 3oreman. Dr. Wulff, the interpreter Lottgering and the re-s. 1st Lieutenant E.H.J, de Vries were called by the Korean OYAMA, to the Japanese Camp commander who was in a ksmpong house in the neighbour (in the presence of an unknown Korean guard) about half an hour after two shots were heard, followed by about half an hour after two shots were heard, followed by shouting, in the 1st Wulff Camp, on the night of the 7th June 1945 at 9 o' clock. This Camp commander gave the order to identify a shot prisoner of war "trying to escape" but were forbidden to ask questions. The victim who was lying on his back on some distance from the house (a little stream of blood trickled from his mouth) mentioned that he was Borgman. He whispered to Dr. Wulff and Lt. de Vries that hie condition w- hopeless, a shot through both lungs, so that nothing could help any more. After returning to the Camp commander and making a report about the identification the officers were lead to the Camp, afterwards they ho fir d ASHITA giving an order to an t unknown guard. On the way back they heard a 3rd shot, on arrival at the Camp OYAMA gave the order to the section commander of the victim (1st Lieut. Jellema) to go back to the kamponghouse with a stretcher and 5 orderlies (including Costerus ana Driessen). They found Borgman dead with a shot through his head. ^ / on DOCUMENT KO. 5578 PAGE 20 On completion of the order to "bring the corpse to the cometry to cremate . T̂ it and to close the grave, the orderlies had the opportunity to state that the first shot really riddled the chest and in such a way, that the "bullet had to riddle the arms if these were hanging down, (this can point to a "hands up" when this shot was heard) Lt. Jellema was maltreated the following morning in connection with this accident. Dr. Wulff was foi "by OYAMA some we^ks after this, to sign a death certificate. in wnich~~ ^iysentry~wa"s mentioned as cause of death. ;We may he sure that Borgman ciid' not want "to escnpe but~tried to_buy sfrme food from Indonesians, (so as many others tried) and in thTs case passed* The UTOUiify," the"dry riverbed, see under head "1st and 2nd camp for sick people, the so-called "Wulff Camp",'sub safety/protection measures) seduced by the absence of barbed wire and the slight patrolling' along thj.-"' jjrrb or the'fehitfS'.""""*' IV. Beturn Voyage MAOEMEBE (EIOBTJS) - BATAVIA. Transport of sick nc:r..le (27-1- 144 and 10-5- '44) Embarkation in MAQSMSiRE. The 1st transport of sick, which consisted patients could take with them the contents of a square military rucksack, not overpacked and without anything tied on, so that most of the patients had to leave behind a big part of their tattered belongings permission was refused for any of them to take with them th-ir uniform, except the clotches they were wearing, whilst only officers vrere allowed shoes. Despite the provision of transport the distance "3lorn-Camp" - Maoemere had to be done on foot with luggage (3 K.M.), while during the March more military trucks passed them, in which the men, whe fell out even were not allowed. Brom 10 O'clock in the morning till 5 P.M. thjs group must wait for embarkation in a back garden of an Indonesians house in the village of Maoemere. Most of the sick people (i.e. serious beri-beri patients) must climb the rope ladder with their rucksack at the embarkation while there was a companion way. The barges alongside the ship vrere subject to heavy swell, so that it was impossible for many of them to get to the rope-ladder in time. Voyage Maoemere - Sourabaya. The accommodation was insufficient at both sick transports. On the 1st draft the available space between decks of hatch 1 (dirty from cement) ana of hatch two gave insufficient room for lying; stretched out, staying on deck was forbid'.en except for visiting the lavatory. The food distribution was also in the holds. There was no bath and wash-pla«e, water was only allowed for washing up. Hanging baskets outside the ship vrere used as latrine for one person. Although it was insufficient in quantity and quality the food was better then on the outward voyage. Food was prepared in the Japanese kitchen. The distribution of drinking water was limited. The light was very bad. In the 2nd sick draft there was not enough room for isolation of infectupus patients. There was lying a patient with open t.b.c. and a. patient with erysipelas between the other patients. Arrival in Batavia. After a voyage of 5 days in the hold and a train journey of 64 hours (normal 12 hours) in overcrowded 4th class wagons the 1st sick draft was left on arrival at Adek-Camp Batavia at night 11 o' clock, for hours in the mud and the rain, in an ooen field and must undergo a search. / After DOCUMENT NO. 557)3 PAGE 21 After this at 3 o'clock in the night they were lay asleep in an empty shed, and vere chased out the building at 7.30 in the morning to line up for "morning roll-call" . Deaths. One of the patients of the 1st sick draft died during the train journey 3ourabaya-Bando eng-Ba tav ia in the pneumonia ward. It was possible to bury him in Bandoeng, but the corpse had to be carried on the platform to Batavia. MOBE RETURN TRANSPORT. Material care. The accommodation at the 3rd, 4th and 5th return-transports were in general also insufficient; not enough room practically no bath or wash place, defective hygienic arrangements (hanging latrines outside the ship) and insufficient life-belts. It deserved a special mention, that the POW's (472) in the 3rd return transport had to sit down the whole first night on the unprotected foredeck. The following day a part got a place in a midship bunker, where the men must lie, packed like sardines in dust, coal-dust, in unbearable heat from the adjacent boilers, insufficient ventilation and light. 15 drums filled with petrol were on deck the 5th return transport from Maoemere until Bima was reached. Guards. On the 3rd return transport the Japanese interpreter ASUMA owing to the selling of goods to the ships crew, severely illtreated the victims, together with the two responsible section commandants (the 1st Lt. de Roo and the 2nd Lt. v. d, Eyck.) Ee beat them with a heavy wooden clog on the face and head helped by the Korean guard MATSUMOTO. Next he punished those caught smoking too early, together with their section Commandant 1st Lt. Earders, by kneeling about twenty minutes with the knees on the sharp corner of tho steps of a ladder. The same ASUMA illtreated the 1st Lt. de Boer twice during the train trip Sourabaya-Batavia. (severe beating with a stone, which was taken from the sleeper and dragging him all over one of the stations) owing to pretended "mistake" in the distributing of tea ana the closing of the windows. During the same journey the Korean TAKAMINI illtreated the POW van Mourik, because he asked his stolen grease tin bac-j. In the 4th return-transport the Korean guard MATSIjAHA kicked POW Felix for a minor reason and hit the en"signs*~de Mey and Remmers very severely in the face. ft WS. Capt. A.C.J, de Thouars ! Ldst. soldier C. K. Bra j res. 1st Lt. E.H.J, de Tries i Manggalaan 47. BANDOENG. / nttfr Doc. Fo. 5583 "'pgc i I, VT39006 Major John Kevin LLOYD of Army HO Melbourne, make oath and say r 1. I am a' officer of the Australian Military Force?. 2. Annexed hereto and marked "A" is r true copy of an affidavit sworn hy 416284 - '/Lt Lyndon Lloyd Mc"enzie on 25 v'ar 46 which I have in my custody in the course of my dutie". 3. The original affidavit cannot he made available immediately as it is required for trials of minor w-r criminrls. 1s/ J. K. LLOYD Maj or Sworn before me at elbourno this eighth day of May 1946 /s/ S. p- ach Cgot An Officer of the Australian Military Forces Doc. Ho. 5-583 Pago 2 S. "each Opt. "A" An officer of the . M. .F. This is the copy affidavit referred to in tho dcclara.tdin --of Mayor J. Z. Lloyd dated tho eighth day of May 1946 On this 25th day of March, Que thousand nine hundred and forty-six F/Lt Lyndon Lloyd McKSsTZIE, Kb. 416284, of Ho. 2 Personnel Depot, R. A. A. F. 3RADF.:MLD PARK, in the State of Mow South Walos, makes oath and says as follows 1. I was taken prisoner at S0EM3A on 27 Apr. 45 at approximately 0830 hours, together with eleven other M A 7 personnel, m-mbors of tho crow of a Liberator "bomber commanded by S/Ldr J. A.Wawn. After capture S/Ldr M W , F/0 SYKES and self w re separated from tho rest of the p rty, hand-cuffed, blindfolded, legs tied and hands tiod behind our backs. So trussed we wore placod on tho floor of a truck and driven over very rough road for a period of eight hours. If we moved in any vny we wore struck with a rifle butt. Immediately after this wo wore again separated and Japanese moved round and kickod and bojjJjjftHiaĵ aiuaJjflttJw then we were interrogated by several Japancso "Officers and threatened with death if wc were found not to tell the truth. I wa^thpn knocked into insensibility with £ rubber truncheon and whon I had almost comc to taken outside ...had my head l^y^d^n a block and a Japanese drew and raised, his sword as though to execute mo but he did not do no. By thin time it was -bout 0300 hours next day ~nd I was? tiod up tight and loft that way for the rest of the night. I was unable at this stago to identify personally any of tho Japanese concerned in this treatment. Wo were further jlltroatod at SOEMBA by various frightening rusos .calculated to make us believe wo wore to be oxocuted", tortured" and bayonotod. 2. VIo were taken to SOSMBAWA, where wo remained for throe wocks, being well trcŝ acL end then moved to BATAYIA, arriving there in the middle of June. 3. At CYCLE Camp, BATAVIA I was interrogated by a Japanese whom wo knew as the "BASHER". a thick sot man who prided himself as an cxponont of .ju-jitsu. Early in July the "BASHER" made me s?t in a chair and severely bashed mc with a woodon swori, finally knocking me off the chair onto concrete. Tho Japanese FC0 who was with him, in his prosonco, then continued the bashing with a rubber slipper whilut I was or the ground. As a asesult of this my face became painfully swollen to such an extent that at first I war. not rocognized by my follow P. W. A * Doc. So. 5583 Pago 3 4. 0:: another occasion tho "BASHER" gave a personal oxhibition of ju-jitsu, using no r.s tho victim. I wrs not allowed to retaliate in any way and wan thrown about heavily and suffered cor.sidcrablo pain. 5. The day after my boating by the "BiSEHR", which I have described, I saw P/lt OLD JTSLD , who had been similarly treated with a rubber slipper. His faoc wrs very swollen and oro oyo particularly was finning rod and in shocking condition. 6. About this time also I remember soring Sgts I-icIUM13Y and MALOEET after thny had beer, subjected to a treatment wherein they worn made to lay their har.de palm down on the table and repeatedly hit on oach fingor nr.il in succossion. Their nails were flattered and broken and they wore in much pain. SWORF by tho above named deponent Lyndon Lloyd McXEbTZIE at Sydney on the 25th day of Kr.rch OR.O thousand nine hundred rnd forty-six EEE0P.E ME C~.pt P.. E. 3. EICZSOE M. 25579 An Officor nf the Australian Military Forces. FRO JUSTITIA Government Bureau for the Investigation of War Crimes. OFFICIAL RECORD Today, 15 March 1946, I, Gerrit Jan SIP, let class Inspector of Police, charged with investigation of war crimes, have interrogated the persons Charles van'der SLOOT^J} horn at The Hague on 20 February 1917, enlisted in the "landstorm" (Tr.notot territorial militia army), acting as interpreter at the Office for Japanese Affairs, residing at Park Hotel, Batavia, who, on enquiry, stated aB follows: I served in the B.N,I,A, as an interpreter for the Moluccas area and was stationed at Ambon. On 30 January 1942 it became known that Japanese troops had landed on Ambon. Afteijfeome battles in which I porsonally took no part, the Staff of troops stationed in Ambon was taken prisoner near PASSO (lateri) on 3 February 1942 at 3 a.m. Doc. 5597 16 February 1943 I along with some 30 Javanese soldiers of the R.N.I,A was taken by ship to Timor. The voyage lasted four days during which we were badly fed and one day were given nothing to drink. After disembar- kation goepang airfield proved to be our destination. The journey on foot tooJcTfoxys which I covered with hands tied behind my back. I was so exhausted that on arrival I lay unconscious for 5 hours. The next day I had to act as an interpreter between the Japanese and Australian PrisonerB-of-war, There vrere more than one thousand Australians amongst whom were many wounded and malaria and dysentery patients. An Australian medical officer asked for medical treatment and medicines for his sick. The Japanese officer namedJflJKADA bluntly refused. These Australians lived in an enclosure fenced in with barbed wire and bamboo, practhnlly in the open air. I stayed there for about a fortnight and during that time about fifty Australians died and had to be buried within that acme enclosure. The area in which more' thru one thousand Australians lived was about two acres. Food for these Australians vras very poor. Only dry rice vras supplied; they had to do their own cooking. Equipment for that purpose was insufficient so that preparation and serving of breakfast consisting of rice porriige lasted from <*> till 11 a.m. The Australian officer, a Lieutenant Colorel, asked my intermediary in order to get conditions improved, I translated this request to the Japanese named FU£/U)A but once again I received a blunt Refusal. The Japanese supplied only rice, never vegetables or mea«, During those two weeks I asked fo? improvement several times at the request of the Australian Lieutenant Colonel; I did the same of my own accord but it was all to no avail, v The Japanese demanded a working-party of 500 men each day to repair roads, to cut trees and to do digging. The Australian Sfficer could at most detail 300 men a day fit to do some work. The remainder was sick or too weak. The food supplied amounted to one liter of rice porridge per man per dry. The Australians had wounded personnel among then. During ny two weeks' stay there about 30 men were operated upon for extraction of shell splinters among other things. These operations were carried out by their own doctors in the open air with the patient seated on and tied to a chair. The doctors were compelled in some cases to ojjerate without anaes- thetics. Medical treatment as well as admission to the hospital at Koepang were refused nor were anaesthetics given. In July 1942 a Timorese had cut a telephone wire at that place, The delinquent was caught In th;; act and arrested, along with two brothers of DENOE who"happened to be in the neighbourhood. I am convinced they were not guilty; one was 21 years of age and the other 16, That very aay tney were Sentenced to death which was done in the following way. In my presence and througK my intermediary as an interpreter the suspect was merely asked his name and why he had cut the wire by KAWAKE. He stated his name and said further ho wanted the wire for private use. The two brothers of DEFOE were never asked a question. That same lay on orders from KAWAKE and without any form of trial I had to draw up a document in the Malay language announcing the death sentence of these three which was placarded in the market-place. The public was instructed to come and look on. Eajas and I myself were told to attend. When I arrived on the spot I saw three new-dug graves. After a few minutes the three convicted with hands tied behind their backs were led in. Cne after another jaafl to. kneel before the graves facing the firing squad and the public, They were not blindfolded. A Japanese,"lieutenant SAWAZE read the sentence in Japanese warning that everybody who committed sabotage would be shot. I had to translate this in Malay to the publis. Hereafter the three were shot; all three fell backwards in their grave. The 16 years old was immediately dead, the 21 years old received a coup de $race. The suspect was still alive and moaned. A^Jaganese soldier armed with a rlfj^and bayonet compelled one of the bystanders to take a heavy stone and to throw this into the grave at the head of the wounded man. The eiUht shocked me so that I went away. The graves hsrcboen filled up by bystanders on orders from the Japanese as I heard afterwards. Attending this execution were Lieutenant KAWAKE and Corporals KAWASAKI and KATC, Charles van der SLCOT, mentioned above, was duly sworn before me at the beginning of his statement in the manner prescribed to state the truth and nothing but the truth, while he, after having ®ompleted hia statement and after having had it read to him adheres to it and signs it /a/ Ch. van der SL00T, And I have embodied it in this official record in pursuance of the oath, taken by me on the assumption of my office and it has been signed and concluded by me at Batavia, on 19 March 1946 m v „ - , . . . The Inspector of Police /a/ S.j; SIP CERTIFICATE. The under signed CHARLES JONC-ENEEL, Captain MIA, head of War Crimes Section of HETHERLAMDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NEFIS), being first duly svrorn on oath deposes and states that the annexed statement is a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original Dutch document -entitled! Sworn statement of Charles van der SLOOT, interpreter, drawn up hy G*J, SIP, inspector of police) dated 15th March 1946, No.2750/R, which original document is a part of the official records of1 NEEIS, signature: sgd. Ch.Jongeneel September 2, 1946. Subscribed and sworn to before me K.A.de WEERD, LL.D., Major Artillery RETA Senior Official attached to the Office of the Attorney-General N.E.I. signature: Kgd. K.A. de WEERD. r-nin^nt No. 5596 Page 1 C E R T I F I C A T S The undersigned CORISS J0NGEN3SL first Lieutenant P..N.I.A. head of the War Crimes Sccticn of Motherlands Forces Intelligence Service (ITF'FIS) being first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the annexed report is a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original documents, entitled "Report regarding tho accused S. Nagata, Japanese interpreter at Sooriba from May 15th to appro::., July 194/*.w drawn up by Tf.F.H. van der Plas, controller in Sooinba, dated TJainggapoo, 4*December 1945, No. 0M/1Q22/RB, which document is a part of the official records of the NEFIS. Signature: OH, JCIIC-ENEEL SEAL Batavia, June 7th, 1946. Subscribed and sworn to before mo K, A. do WCERD, first Lieutenant R.N. I.A., Higher Official attached to the Offico of the Attorney-General N.E.I. /s/ K. A. do MEED 123/R. REPORT REGARDING 335 ACCUSED "S, NAGATA", JAPANESE r.TTERPRETSR AT SOEMBA. from MAY 15th to aonro::. JDLY 19M. Dhdar tho Japanese Commandant "JUNIKARA" at WAIITGAPOE, the Japanese interpreter "S. NAGATA" in the beginning hold the function of Civil Ad- ministrator in the Island of SCEC3A, He spoke tho Malay language rather fluently and pre-war ho presumably lived at MALANG for several years. By his orders, the Europeans in SOELIBA and the 2 Americans who live there, in total 30 persons, received solitary confinement in the prison at TL'.INGAPOE, and 55 women and children wore cramped in the "passanggrahan" at WAINGAPOE, which building contained only 3 bedrooms, an inner-hall and a dining room. Food was not supplied by the Japanese, everything had to bo bought by tho prisoners and prepared at home. Document No. 5596 Page 2 Private moneys, possessions and food-stocks were seised by or on orders of "S, J'TAGATA'% most probably in co-operation with the Japanese "JIMIHARA". Fortunately the worn or. had sonic money with them and the 30 men had together approx, f.;?00«-„ Of this amount about f.300,- was stolen one night by a couple of Japanese guards on duty. By orders of '-'S* I!$G.£TAI? all the Europeans hero, had to make a state- ment of private amounts of money and possessions, whereafter tho money was seized. Many valuable articles disappeared into the pockots of said "3. NAGATA" and in tho so of the Japanese Ooercnandant end his assistants. Silver forks and snoons wore recently found at tho house of a Savoenese woman in the village of KAMBAN3RGS; they had been presented to her by "S. NAGATA". Moreover "S. NAGATA" was a sadist. Onco or twice a week in the period from May 20th until July 10th 19-42, he entered tho prison between 20.00 hrs. and 2A«00 hrs. accompanied by some soldiers, in order to thrash 5 to 10 "whites" with rice-pounders and big bamboo sticks. Nearly all of us were once thrashed in this fashion, When the victim lost consciousness, buckets of water wore thrown over his body to revive him, somo final strokes were inflicted upon him and thereafter the man was permitted to return to his coll. It was always JT3. NAGATA" who organized these maltreatments. First ho hold a secrct c o nvcr s & tion with the Japanese soldiers who accompanied him, then ho laughed aloud after rMch thrashing commonccd. I wonder that arras and logs were not broken during these maltreatments. An American air- man, "HAINES," had 2 ribs broken as a result of maltreatment. The Military Surgeon "van KA3SELT" end Lt. "SCEBBDEBEURS" incurred "bruises, so that for days they wore not able to walk and I myself partially fractured my left arm and was unable to use it for five weeks. Natives too, wore beaten black and blue with "aloes" or rico-pounders. In Juno we saw a Soombanose, who had been carricd into the prison and put in a coll, groaning with pain and with opc-n wounds all over his body, Other native prisoners received a small portion of under-done djagoong (Indian corn) only onco a day. They had to live and to work on this poor food. More cruelties were inflicted upon the natives in SOEMBA by said "S. NAGATA." The above-mentioned facts wore witnessed by mo and I am willing to declare this on oath. Against "3. NAGATA" thcro is a ficrcc hatred among the native population and also among nearly all the officials and it is universally hoped end cxpcctcd that this sadist will be sentenced and punished, if possible, in SOEMBA. WAETGAPOE, 4/12/45. Tho Govt. Controller in SOEMBA, Signed: "W.F.'H. PI AS". Doc. No. 5803 7 * p a g e 1 (I, Carlos Jose Sequeira, widower of 51 years of age, of Portuguese nationality and born in Hongkorg having been duly sworn, make the follow- ing statement: PROTECTION ZONE. CgHEBhlcX CONCBIITRnTICN CANT OP LIQJJTCI. a) The village of Liquica, about a square mile, was chosen to be the protection zone. All the remaining families that did not abandon BAUCAU on the 14th November 1942, v.hen the Japanese invaded that village, were transferred by the Portuguese beat QKUSSI, under Japanese control, on the night of l6th to 17th November 1942, and on the night of the 20th November 1942, to LIQUICA, except the Governor's family and some officials who were taken to Dili by Japanese trucks, to join His Excellency the Governor at the GfMgBSBfc's House there". Airrst everything that one possesesliad to be left behind, because orders were to the effect that no one was to bring more than that which is considered indispensable. b ̂ GI1XBAL CO7'J, IT I ON Upon our arrival at Liquica we were given accomodations by the Chefe do Posto of Liquica but as tha number of houses was limited, several families had to be put into ons horse like sardines in tins, and Jar^ly neace was thus destroyed. For about eight months, life went on like this'""'and during "Shipperiod, it seems that jaic Japanese wore tyv- lag to i.iako friends with hv to r>»r frrrmgnt. . Visits to some houses, and mingled witli itfjj '-•AS1. a ijg&t friendly manner, '£ut 'after' this'"period, co.nditions. started to^change, and in a 'most-methodical way, and in July 1943, all the radio sets were taken away, all rifles and ammunitions were ordered to be handed over; nobody was allowed to keep out cf the house after 8 p.m.; parties of from 2 to 6 Japanese soldiers made constant search for compromising cfjects, follow- ed by ill treatment of the community, and prohibition of the natives to be in contact with us. Prices of food began to rise, and as it go on rising, natives were not allowed to sell to the Portuguese anything, and the weekly markets began to be controlled by tho police, and only what was left after they have bought the best, and tho best part cf the whole, the remainder could be bought by the famine crowd. Finally even this mode of buying was taken away from us. Tie had to go weekly to the Government's Cantina to receive a meagre supply of food and the Cantina itself is being controlled by them. By the beginning of 1944, all the families living in MLTDI-HRA received orders to move to liquica. Old men, women and children, had to make the journey some 15 miles on foot escort- ed by one mounted Japanese guard and several natives all armed. If lodgings in Liquica were already a necessity, with the influx of the new comers, things became worse. Servants were then taken into custody under all pretext and severely beaten for almost no fault, and many were afraid to return to work. Every now and then water supply were cut away and the excuse was that something was wrong with the pipes, when these are connect- ed to the supply tank, next to their Headquarters. FOOD ELL FLY As aforesaid, not much more is to be aided, except that natives were not allowed to go to Liquica to sell, and even the few remaining families who lived in the suburb, are not allowed to sell to the Portuguese. The rationed food received at the Cantina is so small in quantity, that it is not worth mentioning. ITo oil or fat was distributed, no sugar except about 200 grams once in 6 to 10 months time, and for vegetables we were given rotten potatoe and yam roots, he also received Wild beans and wild mandioc. liany had stomach troubles and some eventually died of poisoned beans. Everybody was down in health and weigh several stones less. I for instance, was weighing 55 kilos when I first arrived in Liquica, was weighing 49 kilos in 1945. Many died of insufficiency of food, and had the condition lasted for six months mere, I do not think there will have been many left to-day to tell this story. ; X : I O . . L SUPPLIES AND ATTENTION Not much has been done in this respect, for, although we had a doctor and several male nurses in the camp, there were no medical supplies to cope with the exigencies. Nearly everyone had a sore or a complaint. The majority had swollen feet and some even swollen faces and more. Malaria was almbst a general case, so was general weakness, from want of food If Doc. No. 58C3 page 2 L.c: or cx)r:iTig-!vrio-: '. e were living actually without any outside news. No natives were allowed to approach our camp. We do not knot, what was passing around us outside the barbed wires and anything that we happen to hear were news given to someone on purpose by the Folice, that the allies were losing, which of course, only the igncrants believed. '7AL IT ri.NNE EP.CM i.IR ATTACK ? Yes up to a certain period, but\when the Japanese tried to induce passing-by planes to attack the camp, we were then left liable for air attack. I say this because when the Liquica Hospital was machine gunned by some 10 planes, this incident was the result of the Japanese having treacherously opened fire from a spot between the Hospital and their High Command on a squadron of planes which were flying North, and these planes located the fire, made a half turn, and started machine gunning a limited area, about, and including the Hospital, but when the women and children who were hidden in the building could not stand any more the attack, and resolved to get out of the building, risking their lives, the pilots must have spotted them, for they immediately ceased fire and flew away, not without killing the very Japanese who opened fire from a machine gun. (I got this information from somebody whose name I do not recollect now: The male nurse LUIZ LEM5S was called to the Japanese Headquarters to treat a wounded. Japanese immediately after the attack.) Ixcept for a few slight scrat- ches from broken splinters, nobody was seriously hurt c,t the Hospital.', AITII.avT'giT MT. KELIJICUS SERVICES This was normal except for a few sarcastic remarks thrown now and then to church goers by Japanese guards, no interference was made on the part of the Japanese. S^ITIRY .jd mil:::.. Nothing was done in this respect by the Japanese and everything was left to nature. G O R G E D I / J s O U R Directly against the internees no labour was forced, but by punishing severely the servants as stated above, many families were left without help and had to do their water carting and fetching of firewoods etc. In another word, forced labour was indirectly forced on the internees. P O E T E G U I L E . I I P J J , h I T £ E CTIRRE?TCY Portuguese currency was the only currency used at "the beginning but as the Japanese started on propaganda in the interior depre- ciating the value of this currency, natives started to refuse accent- ing Portuguese money and slowly, everything was paid in Japanese Guldens, only with a very few exceptions, Portuguese money could be made use of. Iron informations received after the war, very active propaganda did take piace at the weekly markets in the interior of the Colony and to show ana convince the natives that Portuguese :,oney was of no'value, officers in concluding their public speeches, use to burn ŝ r.e n^tes, and offer to exchange to the natives Japanese notes for Portuguese notes which the natives immediately decided to do. J d T t h F T I - A I i n , D P R 0 P ; . G i J - D A Yes, of every kind. Only the natives, the ignorant ones of course, would believed. 1 This is all I can offer for appreciation about the Concentration Camp. Dili, 3rd July 192ji>. /s/ C. J. Eequeira. Doc. So. 5803 Page 3. Sworn "befere ne this third day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-six. /s/, H- Captain, N.E.I. Army moR Page 1 Summary of examination of -UNSSTO SIMDS, aged 29 years, born at HATOLIA, iorteguese Timor, a Portugese subject, a driver and now residing in ^ DILLJ , TurlUymiMf Timor, being duly sworn states:-] I am unable to give any information regarding the murders by the Japanese of Australians in DILLI 0r elsewhere. About September 1%2 all Portugese troops were concentrated around the town of AILEU. I was a Portugese soldier at the time. /n i_About 15th September.. rgjj-gjthe Japanese troops came to AILEU and from then on the Portugese troops vere ..stationed in special quarters inside AILEU. '.'/hen the Japanese came to AILEU they stopped us from patrolling the surrounding area and the Japanese ordered the Portugese troops to stay in AILEU while they took over the patrolling. Although they ordered us to stay in the town they expressed their friendliness to us, saying they wished to hel • us. Till then the Japanese used to pass through AILEU and only remained at the most a day, "but on tins occasion they stayed four or five days. The day before the attack was made on .AILEU the Japanese Tssre especially friendly and dis- tributed cigarettes and gifts amongst the Portugese troops. On the night before the attack I was on duty at my house when I heard some noise outside the house where I and another ninety Portugese soldiers were quartered. I thought it was the noise of horses moving about so I went and asked the man in charge of the horses but he told me that all the horses were inside. I then opened the door and looked outside but could see nothing, '.lien I went away from the door a grenade came inside the quarters and killed two horses near the door. I rushed to the other Portugese soldiers and told them to be ready for an attack. "Thile wait- ing for orders from our Commander I saw a group of men outside the door. First Sergeant MARTINS asked °"/ho1 s there" and the answer was .."Nippon". First Sergeant MARTINS then said, that if they were Nippon _ they* could come inside, -"hen the men enteredwe saw that they TOre Blac1: Troops of the J[a»fiJ2£ji£. 'Then First Sergeant MARTINS assumed an offensive attitude with his gun t h e J & a e k r a n away. Then the fighting commenced. From six points I could hear the noise of machine-guns firing and from one side several mortars were shelling us. There was also lots of rifle fire and j many grenades thrown. j It was about three o'clock in the morning and too dark to distinguish the people firing the mortars and machine-guns. As I have never seen any ! natives handling mortars I was sure that the Japanese were attacking us. The mortar bombs fell and burst in our quarters and it was most accurate fire. Suddenly in the midst of the attack I saw large numbers of native troops advancing on the quarters so I hid in the underground cellar. From a girl who actually saw it haopen, I was told that my brother-in-law and another Portugese soldier were captured and taken outside by the jjlack Troops and shot. From where I was hiding I could see through a hole Japanese troops mov- | ing around. Then about five o'clock in the morning I heard the native Black Troops shouting out tc the Japanese Shat the -white men w^r^ all i ^finished*The Japanese then sent the native troops away and made an in- • spection of buildings to see if there were any white men left. A few of the Portugese soldiers were able to escape, but some others • were killed, among which, was our Commander, Capt. FEREIRA da COSTA and his wife, Secretary GOUVEIA LEITE, the Clerk of the Judge, AF0N30 and ^ Doctor PEDROSO.] After the attack First Sergeant MARTINS and my brother came out of hiding and when the Japanese Commander saw them he expressed surprise that there were some whitqp }QftT Then all people who were hiding were ordered to come out and the Japanese formed them up in a line. I was amon^t this lot. The # Itou. No. 580A Doc. No® 58°4 V Page 2 Interpreter of the Japanese told us that the natives had been ver3r bad and were dangerou3 to our safety and the Japanese offered their protection against them. The Japanese took a Portugese machine- gun from one of the Portugese soldiers and examined it lo see if it had been used. They then opened fire with it towards the river in which their own native troops were camped. Ve were taken before the Japanese High Commander where we were asked if we vrere wounded and if we needed treatment. -e had to stay in the hospital when we were brought to DiCLLI and were not allowed to leave it. After four days we were interned in the internment camp at LIVUICA. Captain MGRIYAMA was the Japanese officer in charge of the Japanese troops around AILSU the time., The attack took place on 1st October 1942. j /s/ Ernesto Sirioes j Signature of Deponent Certificate of Interpreter. I, GIL FURRIERA, certify that I duly translated the above summary to the witness in his own language, prior to his signature which appears above. /s/ Gil Ferreira Interpreter Taken and Sworn before me this twenty-ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-six, at DILLI, PORTUGESE THiOH. /s/ N. F. Quinton Major Australian Military Forces and /s/ G, N, P0f Capt. U.E.I. ARI2" /s/ (Illegible) | Intendente, PORTUGESE TIIICR \ sj- A Doc. Wo. 5805 / jlft' Pago 1 ! In the International Military fzibnnal f r the Par East Tho United States of ...ncrica and others v. ARAICI, Sadao and ethers X, Vjjlliam ̂ riderson Beattic, cf 632 St. Eilda Road, Melbourne formerly No. 129833 Flying Officer ~ IT. Beattic of Royal Australian -"irforco, make oath and say:- 1. In September 1942 I was a member of 2/4 Independent Company end embarked with that Company on H.M.S. Voyager fcr Timor, I disembarked in Timor and went up in Cctobcr 1942 to the neighborhood of Dilli. the.t time the Japanese were in occupation cf Dilli. I remained in the Dilli area until December 1942, part cf my duty being to obtain information concerning Japanese Forces in occupation of Dilli. 2. I knew Fathers Novcrto and Piros. They wore Catholic priests at the Administjgptive Center Ainaro in the province of Suro." " I know them very well and they were strictly neutral as far as the war was conccrncd. They were only interested in their own mission work. In early October 1942 we loft Ainaro for several days on patrol and a very largo patrol of Japs came into Ainaro from the direction of Alien, unknown to us. On our return tc Ainaro several days later I went up to the house where the priests lived and found that it was completely ransacked. I inquired from a mission boy as to tho whereabouts of the priests. He told me to go over to the Church. I went over and found some bloodstained clothing outside the Church and on going in noticed, the, bodies imngrfectly buried, where the concretc floor had been picked up and a wooden platform placed over it. I later saw the mission boy who looked after them in their house. He told me that the Japanese had questioned them asking where the Australian soldiers were. They refused to disclose our whereabouts. The Japs had then tied their ankles together and had tied their heads down to their ankles and bayonetted them_to death. 3. On 12th December 1942 the Japanese attacked us near Atsabe. They used as a screen for this attack a number of unarmed natives whom they drove in .front of thorn. About 50 to 60 natives were used and a number of them wore killed. V/e also saw them burning native huts in the area of Mt. Katr-ai and shooting the women and children as they ran from the huts. This was a regular practice among the Japs to make it unpopular with the natives to assist us. 4. A doctor who was the brother-in-law of the Portuguese administrator of Manatuto told mo that the Administrator- had been frequently questioned V Doc. No. 58o5 Page 2 by Captain Moriyema. bead of the local Eempai Tax, and that the Administrator disappeared ono night, On the f olloruag jicrnin^ a native ealleg"SL. IU*'.'BJ1.U T5 s f.iil, up remains. > UMiniifiiiimTiiri "nr II PMMMgMMM* and left a sack nhi rh ccntglhgrims cut ) Sworn at Melbourne in the State of Victoria this the ) 27th day of September 1946 ) Before Me /s/ W. xi. Beattic /s/ John Mansfield J Jo. 5806 "age 1 Sucnarr of exani-.ip.tion of LOTS -CTO'./'IO FUKTS HOErSIGUSS occupation, Doctor's clerk, of Porte^uese nationality end "born in "orteguese Timor, and 30 years of age, and residing at DILLI, Porteguese ninar, "being c.uly sworn states I was in DILLI on the 20th February 1942 when the Japanese first occupied DILLI, Two or three days after a wounded Australian soldier was "brou-'ht to the hospital where I was employed "by a native. This Australian soldier was suffering from a large number of wounds. I was present when the native told the officials of the hospital about the bodies of seven (?) Australian soldiers that were then lyinr partly covered in ditches by the side of the road near FATIt M3TA. The native had. counted the bodies and told how their legs and feet were not covered by earth and the dogs ware eating their legs. I do not know of any person who actually sa.w the Australians killed, nor do I know the names of the Japanese concerned. I cannot now remember the name of the native who told me about the Australians being buried. I only sa.w one Australian a Prisoner of T'.ra.r of the Japanese and that was the wounded Australian soldier brought to the hospital. That is all that I Imow about the Australians. uIn 1943 when I was in OSSU I sa.w Japanese beating natives including a native chief by the name of G5PJMIAS, and also half-casts. The Japanese used torture methods on the chief and two or three more natives by burning them with cigarettes after their hands were bound together and also by giving them a water torture by holding closed their mouth and •nonr̂ n.o- UTP.*AT JJNT.N their mouth. They also forced them to kneel_ down jpnj pharp stones while they applied pressure to their backs. Gj^rettas wore also out into their nrs. The natives'* were alsô S?,Ce!!*7f5fĉ rIapp in. with hands and by beatings with sticks and when they foil unconscious they ware revived with water and beaten again. I saw the native chief, G32MMIAS, taken to a newly dug grave, he had his hands bound end four or five Japanese of the Eempetai with long native knives make sma.ll incisions on his throat, telling the chief that he had to disclose the whereabouts of Australians, otherwise he would "bo killed. The chief refused to -five any information and was then taken away. About p. month later, on a day of a Japanese feast, the Japanese announced that the chief had been killed because he was not s friend of the Ja.pa.nrso. The Jananeso told another chief all this as a thre-t as to what would ham en if they die1 not assist them. I The Japanese forccd the natives to take pert in celebrations .of ̂ apgnes^^p^ts. while the Portogucsr feasts were not permittee.. On the 14th February 1943 I was in MALA3IA when the Japanese attacked that mountain using b^g^Jyyjflj^. I was in company with Lieutenant FIFJ5S and Sergeant KARTIFS .and other Porteguose, and also two Australians, Lieutenant Frank HOLLAND and Sergeant SMITH. I saw tho Japanese bum the village of IT3HCAI, including tho hospital anc Doctor's house. This was in Dccomb-r 1942. I also sa.w the villa.gr of SArLnEC^. burnt by the Jauancsr after tho attack on MO.TA3IA. THIS is tho first page of the Statement by LOIS AFT07I0 :HGS iODIiFIGfUSS Doc. 'Jo. 5806 2 rj "Hicn the Japanese1 attacked tlir jar Vive villages thofuscd indiscrimiap.tr rrr.chine-.-~un fire, j She people in Portesuese Timor "-re forced to use Japanese money. The Japanese issued an order that rnyone found with Portogucso money would he killed. The order was civ.ir to the natives hy the Japanese after the natives had "boon collected in the market place hy the heating of drums. Ton the 21st February 1942 I saw the Japanese fcrcinc the doors of the Chinese houses in DILLI and mprc other houses, mid lootime the houses. t nf y. n-f Japanese.forced the. chiefF to send nr.tivr alrls to Japanese brothels, V thrortcr.inr the native chiefs hy tilling them that if thny did not send the cirls, they, th*> Japanese, would ro to the chiefs houses and take away their near female relatives for this OUTDOsew i i On the days of the Japanese feasts I hoard the Japanese telline v̂ g., only. the Asi atica and all I'fcitc people should he driven out. t know the native chiefs were forced to give native labour to the Japanese to build military roads and at the aerodrome of LAUr^M. They also forced the natives to cut bamboo sticks for use against parachute attacks, and placc the sticks in the ground. The Japanese paid the natives for this work with JpTipm.ese invasion money. The Japanese used -b.rp.bs as spies for them and later A-TOO in ted many iirobs to the positions of vhef de Posto and ministrators. Two Japar.esL. sergeants, APAI and DaCIOCi-j. rnd another sergeant FAITO were the Japanese who beat the native chief, GTilMI^S. Is I .Lois .^ntonio .lures ."lodroifiues Si~npture of De or.ent Interpreter I, GIL PISHI2SA, certify that I duly translated tho above summar- to the witness in his own Ian mage, prior to his si.•nature which '•noears .above. .Is I.Gil.Pirriera. Interpreter Taken and Sworn by me at DILLI, PORT"CJtTST TIMOP, this 26th day of Juno 1946. , , \r • /e / rr v ^inton Major boinr Officer appointed by Commander-ir.-Chief, S. "3. A. C., to make this investigation and . ./s/ H-. POP Capt., and ./s/... .(iWblf. .tp. rPP.dj Int endar.t, POETEGtBSS TIMOR « / DOCUMENT NO. 5594 PAGE 1 CERTIFICATE: The undersigned CHARLES JONGSNEEL, first lieutenant R .IT.1 .A., head of the War Crimes Section of Î T'HERLAEJDS FORCES INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (NEFIS) beint. first duly sworn on oath deposes and states that the attached report is a full, true, complete and accurate copy of the original document, entitled "I Statement on Sulmata Incidenfc^ II Statement on other Incidents, III Statement on arrest of former auxiliary soldier of Mori unit", "being statement in the English language of the Japanese Ma.jor General Tanaka Yuki ddo. Soembawa January 27, 1945, on several "incidents" on the Sermata, Loeang and Moa Islands, No. 4012/R which original document is a part of the official records of the Nefis. ( S E A L ) Subscribed and sworn to before me, K. A. de Weerd, first lieutenant R.N.I.A., Senior official attached to the office at the Attorney-General N.E.I. /s/ X. A. de Weerd Batavia June 1946 DOCUMENT NO. 5594 PAGE? I. Statement on Sulmata Incident. 1. Season why s v.ppressive action taken. In Sulmata Island 4 Jr^ftr^se M.P. and 6 crews of air watch, party. balancing to Air Intellirjer.ce Unit had heen installed since middle of June, 1944, when in the end of Aug. 1944-. natives started dis- am.,,murdered these Japanese. A suppressive action was taken to clear out this disturbance to sweep away the rest of the line for the future and to establish law and order in the island. (Total of Japanese ^̂ sn.f.T'̂ rl y^s 9r for one of 4 M.P. survived because he was in hospital at Louten.) 2. Cause of disturbance. Eadja of Sulmata. stationed in Luam Island ruled both island, Japanese advance to Sulmata was quite natural for performance of War, and their enforcement of military administration was unavoidable measure under then existed circumstances. Nevertheless, the Badja. perverting this, for encroachment of his governing authority, determined to raise a rebellion, besides, seeing that, at that time, flight of the Japanese aircraft over his area was scarce instead, of the frequent . flight of Allied aircraft, and that Japanese shipping activity around Lautem area was declining, he decided that our fighting power already fell and thatj therefore," no Japanese reinforcement could be sent to the island, if ever he might raize a riot; and, moreover, he intended to ̂ e cur if 77 by this rebellion his own status of Eadja against the probable landing of Allied fo rco. Statement to the above effect was made by tho Ka&lal.ffile chief criminal, on his examination, and no other notable cause of the incident was tractable. Looking to these causes of the incident from political point of view conduct of the Eadja and people of Sulmata and Luan must be taken as purely rebellious and it must be justifiable that the Japanese treated them as rebells. 3. Outline of rebellion. (1) Tho Eadja establishing himself in Luan took command of whole I campaign and made his son Yoos to direct action in ITuTmata.'""Tooi~ gurrorndcd the camp of air--watcfc. crew wrEh 'Ms' force ofHalbout 350 — natives consisting, of about 200 natives of Sulmata^ (.mainly natives from !liro village ~and Eokisal village, and 10 to 20 natives from each of other villages) and 150 of Luan. Their weapons wero spears and bows. At t̂ g-t Wftmnnt, fyĵ y 9ne Japanese was"Tn the camp, and others" and gone angling at the coast without earring any wagons. They were p.11. massacred at last and their bodies were thrown' into the sea or cast away * O S E H 3 2 T ~ T 2) On that day, 1 W.0. and 1 N.C.0. of M.P. force went to Luan, on the Eadja1 s invitation. The Bad.ia had plotted to sink the ship they took on their way by taking off the plvg of the hole in the bottom of the ship which was prepared beforehand. But it was not actually carried cut owing to the shipmen hesitation. jgJEL.. were suddenly^ attacked by about 300 • iatives that night in their camp. They are known to have escaped from the camp and evacuated the island by rowing a small boat, but since then nothing has been heard of them (M.P. uniform, pistol and / boots DOCUMENT SfO. 5594 PAGE 3 •boots worn by Yoos when he was arrested afterwards by suppressive party were probably robbed from their corpses). (3) A F.C.O. of M.P, was massacred on small island west of Luan when he stopped there on his liaisonal trip to Lautom. x. Motive of the discovery of crime, Raised suspicion by th? silence of their wireless since Sent. 1. a plane was sent to ascertain the:.r ,:af^ty.But "the tragedy was felt when it received no answer to its nigra'1. , 5. Sending of suppression party. Myself, the District commander, organised the following suppression party in accordance with the Divisional order; Commander of the suppression party, Captain Shimada Tosaka One infantry comgany_ One machine- 'gun -platoon One light trench-mortar -platoon Total strength about 200 men To the suppression party I ordered to such effect as they completely cleaned <g& ^tfiqfisrr, and _swee-oc-d pray the root of the eyij ti° eptghlish laM._ard order for future, as well 83 they sea-rfhad fnr t-ha^ ̂ ^ipg and their the Japanese on Sulmata oidereft to Capture afty 3 islands for it seemed to be probable that this, disturbance was the" result of agitation made to these natives by such party. Movement of suppression party. (1) The suppression rar-,v on arrival tft Sn'irpatA Island, about 29th of Sept. 1944. landed at two points, northwest end av.d middle of north coast of the island. Most of the natives hac] rff-.f̂ A-kfê the mountains. but, some resisted with bow, sword dr/'. spear, while others attempted to step owr_ advance by" conflagraten/r h<v'-.')"' of read- The suppression party captured some of the remainirg native?. investigated the circumstances of the mutiny and succeeded in acquiring such information as that Yoos. aon of the Bad j a was directing the whele, that natives of villa-pa . ̂uiiWc.' to Li. aha that when the party landed:, Yoos, went from nortn coast to south eoant through east coast, ..animating the natives by rereading ta. false n^ws that strong A-x̂ tra'tian force were landing the is Ian-. from many points. The 3uppressT6h party~Tdllowed tiife trace ~0lJI Yoos but his whereabout could net bo easily foundo They called up the village chiefs to question this but they would not open their mouths. Their incorporative attitude (except Leran village chief) made the searching extremely difficult. It was continued by dividing the party to many places (2) A part of the suppression party was sent to Luan island. They were charged with rifles fiyg fffifl g» firad hjg^ ̂ aifiet this They frustrated natives"resistance although the Had j a"and hi7*family tried to / - — - — - — - shoot DOCUMENT ITO. 559<± PAGE 4 shoot the Japanese "by bows that night, arrested the Bad.ia. his family and his chief subordinates, and returned to Sulmata. (3) The main body of the suppression party fruitlessly^ ©eatinuing, their search for Tons, _a.1yan.dy fpr two weeks, ordered the Badja to search out Yoos within three days, with all the men in the island, under death penalty in default of carrying out this crder. The Badja. assented to obey this order and commenced the searching but could not find him out until • the ordained date. Therefore he was executed. Next, a Japanese soldier found a native sentinel standing in front of a cave in the mountain, then the cave was surrounded by the Japanese and at last loos was found and arrested in spite of his resistance with a pistol. (4) After the arrest of Yoos, those circumstances of the incidents brought to light, and most of the-, persons concerned with incident arrested, the commander of The supression party requested for my instructions. To this I ordered the commander to bring Yoos and other leading criminals to Lautem, . to execute those joined the conference of rebellion and led the crowd to . the assault and to appoint Leran village chief as the next Rad.ia. Three leading criminals including Yoos was executed in Lautem. (D) Natives of Luan island were especially atrocious. They moved to Sulamata island from their own island to join the attack against our air . watch party. On Luan island they assaulted our M.P. and they showed pretty stiff resistance when the suppression party landed there. Therefore, . I ordered to bring 42 -principals of them to Lautem. But, on the way, 6 i of them escaped because they were divided to several small boats. So I ' made the remaining 34 executed on Moa island. f 7. As the result of Sulmata mutiny, about 60 of total 650 persons joined the I mutiny were put to death. 3.) I do not' lenow TEe '""amis of executioners. i> II. Statement on other incidents. In Jan. 1943f natives of Elomalo, Lautem, Timor island assaulted the Jananoseat Lore, and also natives of villages west of Matabia were at first against the Japanese rule. Therefore, subjugative actions vrere taken against them, and some of the natives were killed or injured during action, because the natives resistance was considerably strong at first. But they surrendered very soon. And, I remember, that considering the future in- fluences on our administering natives, no native was put to death penalty after that subjugative actions. I have nothing more especially to state, because as the result of these subjugative actions, natives came to recognize the Japanese real power, and since vrere very obedient to our rale. III. Statement on arrest of former auxiliary soldier of Mori Unit. Sept. 1945. in.Haumere Area,.,. Blores 65 former auxilliary soldiers of Mori Unit deserted their unit. Therefore, I, as the Dirtrict Commander, ordered Mori unit DOCUMENT NO. 5594 PAGE 5 unit and, other, u ^ e to arrest. these auxiliary, soldiers., .They succeeded in arresting ahoulQoO^f then. I ordered, therefore, to stand a special ^guard to watcJr»thpff: ^fl yj-̂ n they were handed over to Australian, most of remaining 33^1so followed then. Jan. 27th, 1946, at Soembawa. vas signed: Major General TANAK1 Yuki (?) Seal: IAJAKA Yulci (?) Doc. No. 5591 C E R T I F I G /. T E The undersigned, C^.ELES JONGINEEL, first Lieuten Ve^d of tve Vrr Crir.es Section of NETHEL.-.NDS FOECI S INTIELIGINCI SILVIO.. (NIFIS), bein. first duly sworn or.th deposes rnc strtes tbrt tlx rnnexeil report is ful true, coi plete rnd rccurnte cooy of tve orifinrl document, entitled:] 1* Co:; pilrtion of NIFIS interrogation reports Nos. 2026/111, 2027/111, 2028/111, 2033/111, 2034/111; 2. NIFIS interrogation report No. 1810, infcmmt ELONTERY, Julius; 3. NEFIS interrogation report No. 1811, infcrr-mt Si" OIL DOLOEDI: 4. NIFIS interrogation report No. 1070, infomrnt EATUL.' 1 IE". A SELVANUS; 5. Extrrct frcn letter fron SOINIA I.II. 131 T IEOR; 6. Service report of Lt. 0T7.IA, Cd. Grrriscn in EO/ ISLAND; 7. Signed strtenent by Y01LIUS EONTIEY? 8. Signed strtenent by DOIFINOIS I0PUETAEVE; Sirned str.ter.ent by Lt. O^AEA SIIDII; | 10. Sifned st-tcrxnt by Sft. ./.ISUS..EI TOEUO; 11. Signed strtenent by S't. Erj. UDO BINZOO; [concerning irss-rurder rnd forced ^restitution on LOIANG rnd SI EE ATA ISLANDS; icb docu ents rre port of t>c cfficirl records of tve NEFIS. Si nrture: /s/ C. Jon eneel (SEEL) Brtrvir, June 7tv, 1946 Subscribed rnd sworn before r.e K. A. de EEEED, first Lieutcnrnt E.N.I.A,, Figbcr Officirl r.tt-cved to the Office of tve Attornev-Generrl N.E.I. r? /s/ K. A. de Ac ere. . Doc. No. 5591 ! Prre 2 / STATU-INT. B a L i . 0T^KA S c l c > i Q. v."kr.t is your nrne r.nC. rre? A. Hy nr-r.t Is Q^PI .Seidri, riy r.ge 27*. • Q. WV-pt is your unit? A. TAtfAKA BUT/.I, T7AYASNI TAI. . VN r t is your kc-ne address? A. KUAAMOTO KIN, KA1.0T0 GUN, r.'ANOiUFA 2191. C)» Give r resuix of your scrvicc in the rrny? A. Dec. 1940 2 Inf. Re- t. of TAINAN Oct. 1941 TZUKUHE Crdct Acrclciiy Jon. 1942 JAVA Dcc. 1942 TIliOPi June 1944 AOA ISLAND Cj • !, >o TPS connrnder of I r0A I sir nd in Pept. ' 445 A. I r:r s. r. Uere rny nrtives kill Of1 on Kor. Islrnd in Pept. '44 rnd hovr l :rny? A, About 40 rjotives v/ere capturccl rt SIH ,.TA -nd LOI./.N » Islrnds • n.. tvey v ere killed.. Q, Uky v/crc they killed? A. Becrusc tve nrtives ottrcked tve Kl.i.PII TAI on SIK ATA rnc1. LOIAN Islrnds. Q. \J>C ordered tve killing? A. Qr^, /̂.TVN.u ordered thrt the nrtives v/cr* to he sent to M s PO tut hrforr. t.Vry 1 rft. Df tke c rd c r r n t' rd - m d I'l-ra ofd̂ -red, to kill tver: there. rnd~~send 3 or 4 of t>c nrtives 1 coders tc TANAKi; BUT/.I „ Q. Did you till these nrtives yourself? A. No. I only supervised t^e killing. Cv. \/ho rssisted ycu? A. Sgt. Mr. i. UDO, Set. TOYOS^IGE ?nc Sgt. 1ATSUS/KI rnd 21 other soldiers Dec. No. 5591 Prfc 3 Q. I,vcrc pre tvese ncn net;? Sgt. UDO rnd Stt I ' nic o i - i - a- o US/.KI pre in LOPOK with Q, A« 2 Inf. Rert. of TAI'./N. Fg;t. TOYCS^IGL left for LAUTII in July '45 end tvc berge rrrived enpty,, so it wrs presuned thrt he wrs clrowned• Few were tve ncn killed? They were lined up in threes in cclunn of rcute rnd then the 21 soldiers ncntioned ebeve chrrred tven with Lng three ?t ?. tii.c, A witness hr.s srid tT~?t raped vconcn rnd thrt wonen r-n-f. h m i j t to the bgtrreclcs rnc useci fry the Jrps. is this true? I orrrnized r. brcthel for the sol.':iers and used It' nysclr. here the wonen willing tr rc into the brothel? Sono were willin-", sa; e were not. ^ow r.rny wonen were there? Fow r.eny cf these wonen were force" into tve brcthel? Five. ^cw were tvese wei:.en f^rcc into the brothel? T^cy were "°u.'vters r'f t> e nen wvo rttache" the KEL PL I TA I. _ Then these wonen were forced into tve brothels rs r. punishnent for the "eeds cf their frthers. 0< For how lone were these wonen kept in the brothel? For 8 nontt-s. Fow neny nen use" tvis brotvel? £1 •Pp.ve you ever berten m y natives? Doc. No. 5591 Prgc 4 A. Yes, I hrvc struck nrtivc sol'.icrs vto co-opcrpted ritb us. •r. Why? A. A hrtive RVC live 7 on DAIiAE IslpnJl wbc T?F. s cnc cf these killed the J-ps soldiers cscrpeC to IfOA. There he M d in P bouse of r nrtive wYo vms ? spy for the Jrppnese. Then Yc escp.ped rn". I Co not know where he rente After his cscr.pt I" found out tbrt vt. bidden in the spy's bouse, so I beat tho spy -vitb ny clenched fists p.bout tbe Vcsd F.nd shoulders becruse be bed not told us. Q. V,r.s tvis native bp ":ly vurt? A. Nc. (S[•:.) 0TIABA Sridp.i Witness. J. Lcnnie, Cr.pto 13 Jrn. ' 4 6 The rbove bps been rerd tc CFAIA in Jrpmcso rncl be strtes tbrt it is P true rnC rccurste report of tbe infomrtion given by bin. '] A\ \/ A Doc. No, 5307 Page 1 fsummary of examination of OHpTO Hal CHUNG, also known as-fli HOI, occupation, merchant, aged 24 years, born in CANTONG, a Chinese subject, residing during the war in LIQ,U.IOA and new in custody in LIQUICA Gaol, being duly sworn states t- During the Japanese occupation of Pcrteguese Timor I worked for the Japanese as an Interpreter from May 1943 until the end of the war. I was working for the Kbmpaitai , j The names of the Ecmgaita^ for whom X worked were 2 - Lieutenant Sub-Li eut Sgt (First) (Second) Driver Soldier AKIfZAJA X3N3B0 NAPiSTA YOK.O UESKY HETA CNO KTTANO MI0CHT KATO UZ3HEEE NASEAJA Alvf Cl FUEKMOTO NAITO OK/JtfARA TiJL'̂ .dNS KCUAI&CHI There was also a Sergeant ARAl in the Kempaitai on tho '.Test Side of the island and a Captain MATSUDA of the ORTORI. That is all that I remember. I was not an interpreter when the Japanese interrogated Australians becausc the Japanese could speak E n g l i s h . 1 did not see them interrogated. I saw some Australians in the Dilli gaol from September 1943- 1 was brought down from LICyTICA in that month. f I acted as an interpreter in Pcrteguese when .JNITONIO ADGUSTO dos SANTOS, was interrogated by the JCempaitai. This ;as sometime after September 1943 • I saw dos SANTOS with his 'L,ands bound together and hung from the top of a doorway and I saw him beaten T7ith sticks. I saw this ha;.pen to DOS SANTOS only once. Sub Lieut KANEKA was in charge of tho interrogation of dos SANTOS and ordered him to bo hung up. There Doc. No. 5807 Page 2 was a Japanese interpret ore present but I do not remember his name, I saw dos SANTOS hung up for a period of fifteen or twenty minutes. After that time he was released and giv -n a drink cf water and I was sent away. Dos SANTOS was interrogated because he was accused of stealing petrol and ammunition which had belonged to tho Dutch. } The Commandant of tho gaol was Lieutenant A E T J h o was agod about kO years. Ono Kempaitai named IAJMJAPAN was in DILLI gaol for a short time, he is the one who wears glasses. I All prisoners in the DILLI gaol, including Porteguese, Chinese and natives, were treated in the same manner as dos SANTOS being hung by their hands from the top of c door with their foot off the ground. I saw this on a number of occasions. This was done to the prisoners if they did not give satisfactory answers to the interrogations^ All the Japanese of the Kompaitai named above, except CESJUT YOKO. AKC7XJA, KITANC, TAKAMIME, .4MASAKY, FTJKUMOTO, OKM'JU*.. KOU^JAoHI and NuITO. ore the ones I saw tying tho prisoners up by their hands tc the doors. Sergeant KATO was tho worst man. I know all tho others did it but I did not soc them. I do not know the numbers of the Japanese regiments which cccupiod Porteguese Timor as they were kept secret, but I do know that the number of, tho Kempeitai unit for whom I was working was number 1921. II was also present as an interpreter when a Porteguese Lieutenant, LIBERATO, was interrogated by the Kompaitai, sergeant NAKETA. Lieutenant LIBERATO was also tied up by the hands to the top of a doorway and beaten with sticks by NARETA. I also saw Sergeant UTCHEKI using tho "water torture" on Chinese and native prisoners.j I could positively identify Sub-Lieutenant KANEKO and Sergeant NARETA again, if I saw them. I am net sure that I could identify the others. Hlhen I saw the Australians passing through the gacl to take a bath or to do other things, they wero very weak and exhausted.j There was another Japanese organisation who ch was worse than_ tho Kompaitai, it was callod ORTCRI. :-r.d crgr.tUood- tho native troops. U'nere were iAdfiyTSKST'Tn this organisation. I heard»that the ORTORI was responsible for the killing of several Chinese. ! There were also soma native women prisoners in the DILLI gaol. I saw them interrogated vy Sergeant NAH3TA rnd boat arid hung up from tho •top cf a doorway by their bound hands by him. I saw some of -chose native women being interrogated. Doc. No. 5807 Page 3 I saw prisoners fore a to squat down with a stick tied behind their knees until they fell over with exhaustion.! Sub-Lieutenant KANEKOr Ser- geant NLRETA, Serjeant RVTO. Sergeant IHCHSkl, were the ones I saw forcing prisoners to do this. One prisoner to whom this was done was Lieutenant LIBERATO. Sergeant NuRETA was the one who did this to Lieutenant LIHERATC. I know that tho Japanese NAX'.TA and TCEANA worked before tho war for the SCCIEnADE AGRICOLA and came back in uniform with the Japanese invasion troops. «../s/.Chung,Hai.Cheng. Signature cf Deponent. Certificate of Interpreter I, OIL FIRRIERA, certify that I duly translated tho above summary to the witness in his own language, prior tc his signature which appears above. r ! i / s/ Gil Firriera — Interpreter Taken and Sworn before mo this First day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-six, at DILLI, PORTSGUESE TIMOR. Is/ 17. F, Quinton Ma j or AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES and /s/ Capt., N. E. I. ,JMY and f Intendcntc, PORTSGUESE TIMOR J"Doc. No. 2760 ' ' m Page 1 Description and text of six cinenatographical films (newsreels), marked I to V I , which were made by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of the East-Indies, and were seized by the Allied Forces on entering Batavia (Java) in S-ptember 1945. DCC- EC. 2760 Sequence 1 . July 1942,, Kb-SL I Page 2 Police Officers Training School in Sukabuni (.e3t-Java) which has been taken over by the Japanese: newly graduated Indonesian C / C - police officers (fitted out with the Japanese flag as a cap badge) parade in Japanese gcose-step under Japanese instructors before the Kido Eutyoo (the local Japanese garrison Commander, who at that time Tvas concurrently Chief of local Military Administration). The Kido Eutyoo hands the*" Japanese certificates, Ifetlay commentary; Quotes In July of the year 2602 a graduation-ceremony "..'as held at Sukabumi for those who passed their final examinations at the police-school. The honourable do Eutyoo" reviewed this party of new leaders of the police. At the end of this ceremony the honourable "ICido Eutyoo" h nded over the graduation papers and express 3d his best wishes to those new leaders of the police. Unquote. Sequence 2. August 1942. Arrival of the Irinces of Solo and of Jogjakarta (the Susuhunan, the Sultan, the Fangkunagoro, and the Paku Alam, respectively) at the ra ltray station of Batavia, to bs sworn in as Japanese "Kb". Malay commentary: luote: In August of the year 2602 a ceremony was held to install Susuhunan XI as "Solo-ko", Sultan IX as "Jokja-k-", ITanglcunasoro V I I as "Mangkunagaran- ko" and Prince Adipati Suryodilogo as "Paku Alaman-ko". This ceremony took place in the palace at Batavia before cj^f^^U-n- h i s Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces, lieutenant General Imamura. Unquote. These four princes appear before General Imamura; Imamura gives an address; the Susuhunan, the Fangcunagoro and the Paku Alam are sworn in; they hand oT_er documents in connection with their oath. I • DOC. NO. 2760 Page 3 Sequence 3« September Athletic Meet of the Ikatan Sport Indonesia ( I . S . I . ) « the I . S . I , flag is hoisted; arrival of Lt. General Imamura and address given by him„ Ilalay commentary: Quotes His Excellency the Commander- in-Chief of the Dai Ninnon Forces, Lieutenant General i Imamura, arrived at the Ikeda sports grounds to •witness the opening ceremony of this sports meet. Unquote. Japanese speech of General Imamuras quote: It is with the greatest pleasure that yis fcnve today been able to hold a general athletic meeting for all the young men of the island, when it is not half a year since Java has been conquered. Now, it is said: "A sound mind in a sound body". Unquote. Sequence k . 17 December 1942* Malay subtitles quote: New '.'."omen Teachers at Djakarta, thquote. (Djakarta is the Japanese name for Batavia. Visit paid by irofessor Ozaki, Bunkyoo-kyokutyoo (Chief Uucation /JAKA ^ft^h C&j^ Mi* rfs+t, Bureau) to a normal school for romen teachers at 3atavia; the first Japanese-sponsored course has been completed. Among those present is Nakayama, Soomubutyoo (Chief General Affairs Department) Malay commentary: ^uote: New women teachers in Batavia, In the year 2602 f T the first time a closing ceremony of a course for training female teachers, who in the future will become educators at primary schools, was held in Batavia. The honourable Colonel Nakayama and Professor O-aki of the Educational Department isere pre- sent at this ceremony, and gave advice and their best wishes to these teachers who will become the leaders of Indonesian children in this New-Java era. Unquote. Sequence 5« 3 November 1942. Celebration of "Meijisetsu" (Meiji-day) at Batavia, Semarang, and Sourabaya. • DOC. NO. 2760 Page 4 I.5alay commentary? Quote: Meiji-setsu day is one of the most important national holidays to the Japanese J people, since it is the birthday anniversary of His ^ t i u Majesty Emperor Neiji who laid the cornerstone for the conception of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, P j b M Sequence 6C Throughout Greater East Asia, therefore, various athletic meebs and physical exercises were held on that day to strengthen the spirit of young men who in the future will be the treasure and hope of the country and people. Unquo te. At Batavias taisoo (Japanese variety of physical training) for school children. Irocession of school children and junior I . S . I , members through the tcwn4 preceded by a Japanese Army Eand, !'.?alay commentary; Quote: Lock at those thousands of school children gathering at the Ikeda sports grounds under the direction of the Department of Ulucation to take part in the commemoration ceremony and to participate in the "radio-taisoo." The brass band of the Dai Nippon Army followed by thousands of school children marches past government offices. Unquote. Procession cf school children carrying Japanese flags marches past General Imamura, standing on the steps of his palace at Batavia« Malay commentary: Quotes School children marching past His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the Dai Nippon Forces, Lieutenant General Imamura. Hnquote. At Semsrangi Saikeirei (formal, deep bow in the direction of the Imperial Palace) by youthful athletes during a big meet. At Sourabeya: Procession by school children and others marching past the Japanese governor of Sourabaya; shouts of "Banzai." October Training of Eeiho (auxiliary militia). L'alay commentary: Quote: Indonesian soldiers. In order that it be known to the public, a demonstration to show their military skill was held by Indonesian soldiers in DOC ITO , 2760 Page 5 Batavia in October® Tlie new Indonesian soldiers are quite different from those of the late Dutch army. "Then the Dutch were still in power in Indonesia our people were never given the chance to st®?y military science thoroughly; our soldiers were merely used as cannon- fodder. Look and see how they perform their task. TJhquote, Japanese commands are heard; the Japanese flag is hoisted; Japanese physical training (taisoo) is done; Japanese army regula- tions are being memorized in chcrus; Japanese text as spoken by the soldiers on the film: Quotes I? Loyalty shall be the duty of a soldier. 2. A soldier shall be courteous in his manners. "Those w'10 have memorized the special regulations posted ~ : at the main entrance, raise 3^our hands." "Here.• "Very good; you all seen to have memorized them." "Then, SL&MuT, state the regulations." "Yes, S ir . " "Those, who pass through the main g a t e . . . . " "Those who are permitted to pass through the main gate are as follows: Soldiers of the Japanese "Empire, civil- ians in the military service; all others cannot pass except by special order." Unquote, DOG. 270 , 2?c0 Page 6 R23L I I . Title: The New School. First flash: "New Java8 in Japanese Kana script. Games by school children; a Japanese soldier (or teacher) plays with these children. Japanese language instruction. Instruction in Japanese writing (kana) Vocational school with Japanese instructors; first a class- room, then a workshop. Synchronized hammer 'drill; instructions given by a Japanese in unintelligible, broken Malay. Instruction in popular Japanese songp ("Kbjo no tsuki - The Moon over the "Old Castle'0 at a school for domestic training. Military training of students; Japanese commands; Japanese ^ goose step; wcoden sticks for rifles 0 [Atrie. DGC. NO. 2760 Pag* 7 RiiEL I I I . Titles Birth of Few Java. March 1943° Sequence 1 . Kragan ('last Java): Monument commemorating the Japanese landing operations in March 1942» Malay commentary: Cuote1 To day is commemoration day of the surrender of the entire Dutch Arny, the birthday of the new history of Greater 3ast Asial The Japanese people are carrying on a life and death struggle to free all the Asiatic people from the clutches of Western imperialism and to establish a new Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Indonesian people, therefore, live and die with Nippon. All the people in Java welcome this commemora- tion day of the inauguration of Few Java with great joy. Unquote. Sequence 2. Batavia: Meeting of Islamites. Announcers ^uote: The Islamite community meets in "Gambir Square" to celebrate the day of the establish- ment of New Java. Unquote. Address by a Mohammedan noman in Malay, saying! _uote: During the Dutch regime, we were always bel~i%d and never took part in any occasion like today's. Nevsr had Islamite women the opportunity as they have today to share the rejoicement of celebrating an occasion which is of great importance to society and to the people. Unquote Address by a Japanese so-called hadji (pilgrim to Mecca), dressed in the Indonesian style. Japanese text: Quotes TVe are grateful to the great Japanese Army who respect and protect our beloved native land. <e will fully co-operate with the Japanese Army until the Greater-^ast-Asia-war is terminated success- fully. • DOC. NO. 2760 O K A Z A K I Page 8 e are convinced that all the Mohammedans in Hast- Asia are our comrades. Unquote. Community prayer for ultimate victory. Announcer (in Malay): Quote: After expressing thanks to the Japanese Army who really respected the Islam religion it was decided to support Dai Nippon continu- ously until victory in the Greater East Asia war will be achieved,. Unquote. Sequence 3« Opening of the Japanese Club wit sremonies in the former British Club at Batavia. Malay commentary: Quote: Various kinds of games and exercises were held by the Japanese at the Japanese Club in Batavia. Before the opening ceremony took place ~ "*» Shinto ritual and prayers were held for the long life of the association. _JDhquote. The Gunseikan, Major General Okazaki,_ participates in the Shinto ritual. Sequence 4« ^ i - -To Meeting at Batavia for the commemoration of the foundation of New Java. Address in Japanese by Okazaki, saying: Quote: One year has already passed since the day of re- birth came to JAVA, and it is our greatest joy that there is no longer any trace of the three hundred years of oppression by the Netherlands, and that the fifty million native inhabitants of JAVA and all the East Asia races are engaged peacefully in construction. These, indeed, rely upon . . . . (rest of sentence unintelligible). '-.re deem it the noble right and duty of the native inhabitants and all the East Asia races to co-operate with every effort in the military operations and Military Administration of the Snpire till the dawn of accomplishment of this holy war. BanzaiJ BanzaiJ to His Majesty the EmperorJ Unquote. Malay commentary: Quote: The meaning of the speech by His Excellency Gunseikan Lieutenant General Okazaki is as fol- lows : • DOC. NO. 2760 Page 9 I am grateful to all the Indonesian people for their as- sistance in building Hew Java together with the Japanese Army. Since the surrender of the Dutch the establishment of the Greater ^ast Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere has made , . much progress. Let us join hands to achieve victory over L * r m ftifA"^ An.0 / l n Britain and America for our co-prosperity. Unquote. Sequence 5» At Jogjakarta: Dedication of a / ^ n u m e i r ^ a fountuiu)' ' on the cccasion of the anniversary of the foundation of New Java. Malay commentary: Quote: On the commemoration day of the inauguration of New Java a monument was ceremonially un- veiled in Jcgja to commemorate the anniversary of the Japanese landing operations in Java. High Japanese of- ficials, the "Jogja-ko* (Sultan of Jogja) and the "Paku-Alaman-ko" (Prince of Paku-Alaman) accompanied by their retinue were present at this occasion. Unquote. Sequence 6 . The Japanese Commander-in-Chief and the Gunseikan tour Java: Malay commentary: r„uote; Recently the Saiko Sikikan (Commander-in-Chief) and the Gunseikan (Chief, Military Government) made an inspection tour to Central and r'est- Java to study the activities of building New Java. The arrival of these prominent guests strengthened the reso- lution of those who were vorking for the establishment of New Java in their respective fields: industry, agricul- ture, education, etc. Unquote. Japanese commentary: \,uote: -ith sounds ringing high for the construction of N_,.; JAVA, the Supreme Commander ac- companied by the Chief of Military Administration, re- cently made a tour visiting every area in JAVA, and person- ally encouraged those who are doing their bit in industry and agriculture for the sake of embattled J-VA. Unquote. Visit to the big textile factory at Garut ('/est Java). In- spection of the Seinendan (Youth Corps); march past under Japanese instructors in Japanese goose-step, DCC. NO. 2760 Tage 10 Sequence 7 . Malang: 1 - 2 0 July 1943! propaganda carrpaign for theflextermina- tion" of the Allies,. Procession and march past the Japanese Governor by school children and representatives of various racial communities (Indonesians, Chinese, Arabs, Indians, Germans, etc.) carr. ing Japanese flags. Malay subtitle: Quotes Movement to crush the power of America ana Britain. Unquote. Malay commentary: ".uctes A drive to crush America and Britain was held all over Java from July 1 to July 20. In Malang this movement organized a procession in which not less than 50Jc'00 people participated, including Indonesians, Chinese, and other Asiatics. Unquote. Japanese commentary: "luote: A campaign for the annihilation of the United States and Great Britain was staged throughout the island of Java simultaneously from July 1st to July 20th. In MALANG, a great parade of 50,000 people was held with Indonesians, Chinese and both our allied nations, the Germans and Italians, participat- ing, and the spirit to annihilate the United States and Great Britain, both arch-enemies of Asia, was displayed. Ulv- uote. Doc. No. 2760 Page 11 REEL IV. Title: Prime Minister Tojo's Visit to Java. Subtitle: The Allies must be crushed. Sequence 1 . 7 July 1943. Arrival of Prime Minister Tojo at Batavia Airport 5 he is met by the Japanese Commander-in-Chief, Harada, the Indonesian "Four-leaved Clover", the four Rulers from Central Java and many more Japanese, military and Indonesian authorities. Malay commentary: Quote: On 7 July His Excellency Prime Mnister Hideki Tojo for the first time arrived in Java. At that time a drive to destroy the power of America and Britain was held throughout Java. TVith a feeling of great joy and gratitude thousands of inhabitants welcome the arrival of the Prime Minister. Unquote. Japanese commentary: Quote: Prime Minister Tojo, on 7 July paid his first visit to Java which is in high spirits, convinced as it is of certain victory in the war of Greater East Asia. He is cordially welcomed by all the inhabitants. Unquote. Sequence 2. Tojo is driven to the Toalace at Batavia; streets are cordonned off and only school children line the way. Further on is lined by Japanese and Indonesian officials fromvarious Departments and other services, ice cover the public, with rifles at the ready and with their backs to the proces Japanese commentary: Quote: Premier Tojo drives through the streets in a motorcar. The native inhabitants welcome him with the rising sun flags in their hands. Unquote. Dcc. IIo. 2760 Page 12 Arrival at the palace. Japanese commentary: Quote: Soldiers present arms. Unquote. Sequence 3 . Subtitle (Malay): "Reception to Welcome the Distinguished Guest." Prime Minister Tojo receives Japanese and Indonesian authorities at the palace. Malay commentary: Quote: After a brief rest, Prime Minister Tojo soon was kind enough to receive several representatives of the people, since he was much interested in the welfare of the inhabitants of Java. To those representa- tives the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude for all efforts the peonle had shown in supporting the Japanese Army, and he hoped that the people in Java would continue with increased vigour their much appreciated assistance. Unquote. Japanese commentary: Quote: Ceremony of Attendance. The Prime Minister, who is much concerned about all the inhabitants of Java, first received the representatives in audience, and strongly encouraged them and at the same time gave them thanks for their services. Unquote. Sequence 4 . Subtitle (Malay): "Eeiho Corios". Prime Minister Tojo visits Heiho-barracks. Inspection of anti-aircraft battery dr i l l . Malay commentary: Quote:. When Prime Minister Tojo visited the Heiho-troops, who are brave and courageous, - because they underwent con- tinuous and rigorous training under the supervision of the leaders of the Japanese Army - jfche Prime Minister followed with great attention all the activities which the Eeiho performed with full vigour. Uncruote. Page 13 Doc. No. 2760 Japanese commentary: Quote: The Keiho Force. (Command): "Eyes Right" . The Prime Minister arrives at the stand in a motor car. The Premier reviews. The Premier, when visiting the Heiho Force, closely inspected the vigorous training of the 1 Heiho under theleadership of .the Japanese Army. Unquote. Sequence 5. Subtitle (Malay): "Sekolah Rayat" ( People's School) Prime Minister visits a Primary School for Indonesians. Malay commentary: Quote: Though Prime Minister Tojo had to attend to many duties during his visit to Java he nevertheless could find time to pay a visit to several schools, among which the first Primary School in Batavia. Since the Prime Minister is very fond of children he was extremely pleased when he heard and saw that the Indonesian children "ere seriously learning the Japanese langu^ge and that they were good in singing Japanese songs and performing Japanese dances. Unquote. Japanese commentary: Quote: Primary School. Children's dances and songs. The Premier who loves young children, called at the Jakarta First Primary School in spite of pressure of other urgent business. The Premier saw their earnest study of the Japanese language, skilful Japanese songs and dances. Unquote. Japanese children's song: JOC. Uo. 2760 Page 14 Quote: "That is the right spirit to destroy America and Britain. Let us sacrifice every- Sequence 6 thing -for the Sacred Tar " . Unquote. Taisoo (Japanese style physical training)by school children. Tilling the soil by school children. Subtitles (Malay and Japanese): "Sacrifice Everything for this Holy Tar. Grand meeting at Tkada Square." Grand meeting at Batavia to welcome Prime Minister Tojo. Arrival of Prime Minister Tojo at the meeting. Address of welcome by Sukarno, in Malay, in which he says: / Quote: Your Excellency, our loj^alty to Dai Nippon has become more pronounced. We are more convinced that the Greater East Asia Tar which Dai Kinpon is carrying on at present is a holy war to return Asia to the Asiatic people, to give back to the respective peoples their countries and to arrange those countries intc one sphere of brotherhood and co- prosperity under the leadership of Dai Nippon. Your Excellency, once more we express our gratitude for your promise and for your visit . Te stand behind you and behind Dai Nippon. ^We offer all our energy and power to the_ prosecution of the present war. Long live Dai Nippon I Down with America and Britain! I have said, Your Excellency. Unquote. Address by Prime Minister Tojo in Japanese, in which be says: Quote: Doc. No. 2760 Page 15 As the representative has just said, Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and all other inhabitants in the various areas of Greater East Asia are members of one large family. However, the United States does not have . . . . . (One line u n i n t e l l i g i b l e ) . . . . in Greater East Asia, prevailing since the beginning of the " a r . As the leader of various countries and races in Greater 3ast Asia, Japan is fighting the TVar of Greater East Asia to free this large family from the bonds of (one line unintelligible) . I earnestly desire that you all will well comprehend the true spirit of the Empire, and cooperate under the leader- ship of the Army here, and concentrate politics, economics and culture to the sole cause of concluding the War of Greater Easl? Asia, and unite all the inhabitants for the construction of a New Java and to give the fullest effort for i t . Unquote. Meanwhile a Malay version of the above is flashed on the screen; -*uote: As has been said already by the people's representative, I am convinced that the Indonesians, Chinese, Indians and other peoples in the Greater East Asiatic Sphere are thoroughly aware of the necessity that they must be united in one great family. Since the outbreak of this war, the Dai Nippon Empire achieved a supreme position^ in Greater East Asia. Dai Nippon is striving unceasingly with the object of liberating this big family forever Doc. No. 2?60 p a g e 25 from the_ bondage of America. Britain and_ Holland. I hoce that the entire Indonesian population of Java will be aware and convinced of the true aims and principles of Dai Nippon, and that th^-will concentratc and increase their efforts under the leadership of Dai Nippon in order to achieve the final victory in this war of Greater East Asia, while at the same tine they will exert all their efforts in the field of government, economy and culture, and work for the realization of the ideals of building a New Java. Unquote. A vJ " , q ^ ^ ( Led by Sukarno, the audience shouts: "Tennoo^ ^ S " Heika Banzai banzai, banzai I" (Banzai, banzai for the Emperor). At the end the following slogan is flashed In Malay and Japanese: "Beware of enemy spies" . Doc. Ho. 2760 Page 1? REEL V Sequence 1. Subtitle (Malay) - "Opening of the Second Session of the Tyuuoo Sangi-In in Java". January 1944. Second Session of the Tyuuoo Sangi-In (Central Advisory Council for Javf); opening of the session on 30 January 1944. The"G-ibyoo" (Head of the Council), Sukarno, is seated " ' J t f yyj^' next to the Japanese Kyokubyoo (Head of the Office). Malay commentary. Quote: In order to intensify further the war efforts in Java to meet the present war situation which daily increase in fury, an opening ceremony for the second session of the Tyuuoo Sangi-In was held on 30 January, attended by His Excellency the Commander-in- Chief. Unquote- Japanese commentary. Quote: Ihe 2nd meeting of the Central Advisory Council w?s solemnly openad^'or January 30th, in the presence of the Commander-in-Chief, to deliberate on the attitude of Java, in regard to decisive victory in coping with the present critical war situation. Then, after five days of deliberation, through the active will of all the members, the following policy was unanimously cecic.ed upon: first: The practical measures for strengthenin the defence by the people. Second: -'he practical measures for the increase of food production. Unquote. During the following days motions were put to the vote by a. show of hands. These motions were drafted by various Committees in reply to questions put to the Council by the Commander-in- Chief. Malay commentary. Quote: Thanks to the great efforts made by members of the Tyuuoo Sangi-In, a speedy reply could be given to questions put by the Commander-in-Chief. The questions firstly dealt with the strengthening of national refence and secondly with increase of food production. Unquote. Doc. Ho. 2760 Page 1? Sukarno, in his capacity of Head of the Council, leads the vote, and says in Malay: Quote: . . . gentlemen, in connection with the proposal suggested "by the fourth special committee, I Ueg those who give their approval to stand up. Thank you. Gentlemen, there is not even one member who does not stand up so that I may say the entire Tyuuoo Sang.i-In approves the proposal by the fourth committee to be the legitimate reply of the Tyuuoo Sangi-In to the second question put by His Excellency, the Commander- in-Chief. Unquote. Sequence 2. Subtitle (Malay): "Presenting of colours to the Corps for the Defence of the Fatherland in Java." The Commander-in-Chief presents colours to the Corps for the defence of the Fatherland at Batavia. Malay commentary: Quote: Gracious banners, symbols of prosperity and Justice, were awarded to units of the national Defence Army. After this ceremony of bestowing banners was over, units of the National Defence Army, carrying their newly received war-banners, staged a march past the Commander-in-Chief and the Gunseikan. Unquote. Japanese commentary: Quote: A bet'le flag glittering with honour and Justice was presented to the Java Defence Volunteer Corps on February 8th. With the glamorous great flag in the fore, our Volunteers triumphantly marched past the official residence of the Commander-in-Chief. Unquote. Sequence 3. Subtitle (Malay); "Progress me.de by the Asiatic people." 8 January 1044. The Gunseikan reads the Commander-in-Chief's proclamation establishing the Djawa Hookoo Kai (Corooratioa for Communal Service). Doc. 3tfo. 2760 Page 19 feley commentary5 s-uote: On January 8 a decree "by the Commander-in-Chief concerning the establishment of a new "Corporation for Communal Services" wrs made public. This new organization seeks to strengthen the spirit of the \ I 50 million people in Java by uniting all power, rendering spiritual and material assistance, cultivating feeling of brotherhood, and by doing practical works. iVith these efforts, the power of the entire population in Java would be incorporated in the fighting strength to obtain final victory in the interest of Greater 3fst Asia in general, and for the establishment of Hev; Java in particular. Unquot Japanese commentary, ^uote: An instruction was issued on the 8th January, with regard to the establishment of the Hookoo Zai, which aims at striving for the accomplishment of the ar of Greater Erst Asia and the construction of a Hew Java with the all-out effort of the 50,000,000 people of Jpva. unquote. Sequences 4 to 8 inclusive illustrate the objectives of the Java Hcokoo Eei. Secuence 4. High School students exercise Xinroo-hooshi (voluntary labour). Sequence 5. At Solo the Sultan a.nc his consort lead in the planting of cotton. The consort of the Prince of Mangkunegoro leads the people in the planting of rice. Malay commentary, ^uote: To forget one's own interest Ei.8H6 to give uo the idea of making profit for oneself and to cast, off one's individualistic attituce- In an effort to practice this, the people of the Sultanate of Solo are exerting themselves, following the example given by their sultan ant. the Prince of i'lankunagoro, who started the activities. Unquote. Jappnese commentary, ^uote: Stalwart figures of the people of Ja."-a can be seen sacrificing themselves in labour services with the Sultans of SOLO and of kAHGEUHGOHO in t he le ad. Unouo t e. Doc. Ho. 2760 Page 1? At Bandoeng Japanese end Indonesian authorities (among them the Japanese Governor and the Indonesian Mayor) set an example in voluntary labour: fallow ground is tilled. High School students similarly carry on voluntary digging- Chinese end Arab parties participate in these activities. (The Arab party carries a banner inscribed in Malay: "Group of Arab Labour Volunteers"). Students are cleaning up an aerodrome. Sequence 6. The Japanese Command ej^^iiv-Giiiefand the Gunseikan visit a. meeting called by the Tonari Gumi> The chief of the Tonari Gumi delivered an address. Che meeting place is marked by a signboard "Kumityoo 6 , " vriich means "Head of the 6th neighbors' Association." . Malay ccmmntary. v^uote: All strength can be united by a feeling of brotherhood, even though there are various races. The present war is a. total war, therefore -̂hat is most necessary is the uniting of the strength of the entire people. In Jav.a> Tonari Gumi or neighbors' associ- rtions have been established, which have made the nucleus of the strength of the whole nation. On January 11 the Commander-in-Chieft the Gunseikan and the Governors of several provinces paid a visit to a neighbours' Association in 3e.tavia to witness the association carrying on air defence drill, end general vork or "jokai". Lnquotc. Japanese commentary: Quote: Harmony among people is the most important thing in time of total war. The system of TOHARI GUMI (Neighbours1 Associations) was established recently in Java, and on the 17th, the Commander-in- Chief end the Governors of all Residencies visited a model T05ARI GUMI in JAKARTA (BATAVIA) and inspected the condition of their regular meetings, their cooperative activities end their anti-airreid training. Unquote. Doc. Ho. 2760 Page 1? The same authorities pay a visit to a field where hundreds of people are planting corn. An air defence drill , held "by the Keiboodan, is inspected. Sequence 7. During a meeting of villagers somewhere up-country, propaganda is "being made for increased production of food crops and for delivery of the produce to the Japanese Military Government. Malay commentary: Quote: The spirit of "Service to the Public" will he transformed into fighting strength, such as for instence to increase agri- cultural produce and to deliver this to the authorities concerned for the common interest. To achieve final victory as early FS possible we must at present produce c.aily necessities with our own strength. To hasten the delivery and to increase the production of food stuff several gatherings pr.d meetings were held. The way to increpse agricultural production is not only by cultivating new area but also by improving the methods of planting in rice-fields and grrdens. Unquote. A Japanese shov?s students how to plant rice. Malay commentary: Quote: These are places in which Jappnese agricultural technics pre being applied. Unquote. Jppanese commentrry: Quote: ihe spirit of Public Service, which consists of spcrifice, harmony and practical work, will be our fighting strength - o. <3760 Page 22 . in increased production, delivery of products to the government, and defence, a villagers' mass meeting was held for the delivery of rice to the government and/Oapane&e v;ays of farming were .•' introducedjfurther to increase the crops from cultivated lands. Unouote. puer.ee 8. Training of Eeiboodan (Village Guard), Seinendan (Youth Corps), and Volunteer Corps (with wooden r i f les ) . Iv.a.la.y comcentary. Quote: At present the Zei- "boodan, the beinendan, and the Volunteer Corps in Java are engaged in rigid physical and spiritual training, Unouote. Japanese commentary. Quote: In JAVa, the -efence Corps, the Youth Corps, and the Defence Volunteer _ ^ V A Corps are carrying on serious training. Unquote. The Volunteer Corps parades through Batavia, singing the , "Crush .america and Britain^song . Malay commentary. Quote: Our enemies America and Britain have recently started a, l ife anc death counter-offensive, i/e on our side should he prepared to meet this counter-offensive by uniting the strength of the entire population in the south so as completely to defeat our enemies' intention. Unouote. Japanese commentary. Quote: If the enemy is desperate, we are also desperate. Ti.ue, all the inhabitants in the southern Sphere march on in perfect unity for the accomplishment of this holy ter. Unquote. Doc, No. 2760 Page 23 KEEL VI Title : Celebration of t>e second anniversary of the Found?tion of New Java , March 1944, Sequence L 5 March 1944e Commemoration of the fall of Batavia; triumphant arches, night fa ir , etc . . Malay commentary: Quote. Starting on the 5th of Larch as tv-e anniversary of the fall of Batavia, and lasting for six days, various festivities were held tvroughoi t Java to celebrate the foundation of New Java by all the people who exerted themselves both in matters concerning t^e defence of the home-land ana in matters concerning tve increase of t>e war-effort. On the 7th of M a r c h t v e Mohammedans conducted a prayer-ceremony for the achievement of final victory by our side. Unquote, Japanese commentary: Quote. The key to the Enemy's Capital, BATAVIA. Unquote o 7 Marc1- 1944, A meeting of Mohammedans is held in a mosque at Batavia. and is addressed by ? J?t)rnese. On a scvoolboard outside is written in Malay: "Ceremonial Frayei by Moslins for the ultimate victory, Tuesday, 7 March 2604, 10 o'clock a .m. " Scqucnce 2 , Subtitle (Malay): "First mass reeting of t ve Java rookoo Kai at Batavia." Doc, No. 2760 Page 24 9 March 1944. Malay commentary: Quote. The founda- tion of t v e "Jawa ^ookoo Kai" (Corpora - tion for Communal Services in Java) preparations for wvicv have been under way following t ve proclamation of the Commander-in-Chief on January t ve 8th of t v is year, has already been materialized on t ve 1st of tarch. This fret will be recorded in gilded letters in the Vistory of Indonesia. On the 9tv of Larch, t v i s newly organized "Jawa Fo«koo Kai" WPS able to vold its first grand meeting in Batavia. With t ve formation of this new organization, leadership over the people of Java comprising 50 million people, w>o are rll convinced »f cert?in victory, can be strengthened now that the war is increasing in violence; and in this way a vigorous rnd flexible movement utilizing the people's services can be orgrnized. Unquote. Japanese commentary: Qu»te. The Java Fookoo Kai , which had been in a stage preparatory to establishment in accordance with t v e Commander-in- Chief's instructions of January 8th, made its historical appearance «n March 1st , and held its first central meeting in Jakarta., Batavia, on the 9 th. ' i "i. . N o . 2 7 6 0 Prgc 2 5 A position of' certrin viatory ® Vfs tvus been est?blisvea for tbe fifty million inhabitants of Jpvr, to rise rgrinst tvc enemy in the severe end decisive brttle, rnd the ^ookoo Kri is expected to cr.rry on energetic activities . Unquote. At Gprbir Sour re, Ertrvip, tve various sections of the populrtion - including the J^prnesc - , t ve vrrious corporations (suc> ?s t>e Medical Coiporr.tion), Keibodm (Village Gurrds), Seinendrn (Youtv Corps), students, semi-military organizations end officials of various Depart- ments are paraded in military formations. Sukarno gives ?n address in Malay, in wVich Ve says: Quote. . . . n o racial discrimination and no discrimination towards work (and labour), so t v rt tve entire population of JfVP will be united in brotherhood in order that the finrl victory in tbis holy wrr vi/ill soon be relieved. Unquote. Svots of Indonesians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Japanese, Eurasians, v.'omen, Germrns rnd Italians. Svots of various persons giving addresses. Sequence 3 . Nover.ber 1944. Sumatra: Installation of tbe Volunteer Corps on 14 February, 1944, at Padang. An oatv is being taken. I>lry commentary: Quote. Tve desire to defend t u e Vome-l?nd is growing in strength in Sumatra ?s well . On the 14th 0 f February, a. ceremony for the enrollment of members of t^e Volunteer Corps wns '''eld rt Pa dang for the first tIme„ Unquot e 0 Japanese comnentarjrs Quote. An ardent spirit for defence h^s ^lso risen in Sumatra. . T> e First Enlist- ment Ceremony for t s e Volunteer Corps was held in Prdrng on February 14th. Unquote. Spring of 194?. Subtitles Takeyari Jutsu (Use of Bamboo Spear). Propaganda picture for t v e manufacture of bamboo spears and how to use them.. T v is sequence is accompanied by classical Javr ne s e wa r d a nc c urns i c a lialay commtntary: Quote. ThL. use of the bamboo spear= T v is film is primarily meant to demonstrate the way to use tve bamboo spear in actual combat. Sine*, olden times f-e bamboo spear was used in Indonesia to beet off attacks by foreign invaders. As the bamboo spear was prohibited as a weapon during the Dutch time, its use was discontinued and only in t ve art of "ptnehek" (kind of fig1 ting- technique) one still finds its remnants. Pencvak however was generally looked upon as mere play, so t vat it is not suitable for actual f ig v ting . At present, t ve spirit of pencvak, the knowledge of tve bamboo spear, and the Doc. No. 2760 Page 27 i r*te < ' " i. . c., use of the bayonet in t vc Japanese way are introduced into Indonesian penchak so that it can be practiced by everybody„ Unquote,, Maiay Subtitles: "Method of raking t vc takeyariJ' "Fow to use tve takeyario" ,,rrow to stab i:Tith the takeyari, wl-ile standing fast" T'~is demonstration is given by a J-panose, ending in an attack on dummies, accompanied by wild shouts* Same technique is then demonstrated by several Indonesian youths. Sequence 5 . 28 May 1945° Installation of t ve Committee for t ve Study of Preparations for Independence„ In front of tve building of the former People's Council the Indonesian flag is hoisted along- side t>e Japanese flag which is already flying. Tvc Japanese Commander-in-Cvief, a great number of Japanese officials , ana the Japanese and Indonesian members of the new Committee are present„ Ma.l^y commentary: Quote: The Committee for t ve ctudy of Prepara- tions for Independence has the sacred and very difficult task of conducting basic studies of important matters, drafts and investigations, in prepara- tion for the founding of the Indonesian Nation, and has started its activities on t v e ?8th of MRV. Un-uotec Doc, No. 2760 Page 28 Jrprnese comrenttry: Cuote. Under t vc s^rdow of t>~e gr^ve rno decisive war between Jr-prn m d t v e U . S . A . , the Committee for t^c Study of Preparations for Indonesirn Indepen- dence mrde r colourful strrt on Mry 28th. At tvc grmd meeting, the Conmrnder- in-Cvief delivered rn rddress to all the members of tve Committee. Unquote. Authorities srlute the hoisting of t^e Indonesirn flrg . Picture next svows the J^.p^nesc Commr.nder-in-Cvief delivering rn rddress in the Committee room. Mrlry commentary: Quote. On the occasion of t^e opening ceremony of t^e Committee's rctivities, it pleased Fis Excellency t1-e Commr.ndcr-in-Chief to address the members of the Committee rs follows: "Tve independence of Indonesir has long been cherished by tT,e D*i Nippon Empire and is one of t'-e rims of D p i Nippon in this holy war. Todry, in t v is hall t ve first step h?s been trken in the trsk of t ve Committee for the Study of Preparations for the Indonesian Independence. I hrve the greatest expectrtions «f tVis Comr.it- tee. You.members must exert yourselves to fulf i l l your srered duty for the foundation of an independent Indonesirn Nation," Unouote. i . No. 2760 ppgc 29 Address in Japanese "by the Cor mander-in-C1 ief : \ Quote. "The independence of Indonesia has been the lang-cherished wis1" of the Jap-nese Empire ~ncl it is also one of t'-e aims of this "Poly War. On inaugurating the Comr ittee for tbe Study of Preparations for Indonesian Independence here today, I express great expectations of the Committee. All the committee-members will make their greatest efforts for tbe establishment of the State of Indonesiai" Unquote. Meanwhile t ve picture svows s^ots of personali- ties attending, among tvem Sukarno, the six Japanese spccial members of tbe Committee, et« . The Chairman is escorted to tbe front and bows to the Cemmander-in-Cbicf. Fe tven takes the oath on beb^lf of the Committee. Vslry commentary: Cuote. In response to the address of r i s Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, t ve Fonourable Dr. Hajiman Wedyadiningrat, on behalf of all the members took the oatb-. Unquote. Tve oath (in Llalay): Quote. I , Hajiman Wedyadiningrat, Dokuritu Zumbi lyoosakai kaityoo (Chairman of t^e Committee for tbe Study of Preparations for Independence^ on bebrlf of all members swear to exert all our energy and our Docc No, P760 P-ge 30 intellect in our work so as to come up to t v e expectations of t^e Dai Nippon Military ^clrinistrrtion and the Indonesian people. Unquote Sequence 6C T ve Pnncha Dharna (t ve Five Principles of the Japanese-sponsored nationalist movement) are read by an Indonesian® As it is being read, the text is flashed on the screen, in Malay: Quote: T v c Issencec l t In t v i s Greater Fast Asia Y/ar we are one in l i fe and deat1 with Dai Nippon0 2. We build an independent Indonesian State as a member in tvc family sphcre of Greater last Asir . 3» Wc- endeavour to keep up and improve our civilization and culture , 4 0 We serve our country .~nd people with all sincerity and we believe in God0 / We strive for world-peace in v accordance with tve principles of / ,,TTa.kkoo-ItiUo" Unquote, I . P . S . D o c . W o . 2 7 6 0 . C 5 E T I I I C A T E I> 1'isao Ibihara, hereby certify that I an officially connect with the International Prosecution Section in the capacity of a proofreader and stenographer in the Ditto Section of the Document Division, that I am thoroughly conversant vith the Japanese language, and that in said capacity I have made the attached true record to the beet of i...y ability of the tit: and text in Japanese as well as of the spoken word in Japane of six cinexaatographical films (newsreels), marked I up to VI, Signed at Tokyo on this fourth day of Docenber 1946. Signed: ifisao Ebihara. I . P . S . Doc. No.27^0. C E R T I F I C A T E I , Radon Soo^anto, L L . D . , hereby certify that I an officially connected with the International Prosecution Section in the capacity of a translator in the Language Section, that I am thoroughly conversant with the Malay and English languages, and that in said capacity I have made a true record to the best of my ability of the titles and text in Ilalay as well as of the spoken word in Malay of six cinemat©graphical films (newsriels), marked I up to VI . And I further certify that those portions, marked in the attached English document, I . P . S . No. 276C, as "Malay Commentary", "Malay title" , etc. are a true and corrcct translation of corresponding title, text and speech of s^id cinenatographical films. Signed at Tokyo 011 this fourth day of December 1946. Signed: Soewanto. 1 J- « X *, < , liSP* ' Uu . 0(3 ; I , Klaas A, de 'feerd, Attorney-at-Lr,;, hereby certify that I am officially connected with the Head Office of the Attorney-General of the Netherlands Fast Indies with the special task of collecting, such documents as would be needed for the preparation of the Prosecution of suspected Japanese Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal for the Far Fast at Tokyo and that as such I have received from the Netherlands Indies Government Information Service the cinematographical films (newsrsels), now marked by myself I to VI , which were made by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Java and which were seized by the Allied Forces on entering Batavia (Java) and handed over by them to the Netherlands Indies Government Service. Further I certiiy that I wrote down the descriptions of sequences as these appear in the attached script of said newsreels according to my best ability and knowledge Iron what I saw on these films. Signed at Tokyo on this fourth day of December 1946. Signed: E .A . de Weerd.
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