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·RANDOLPII SCOTT
ANNIE SHIRLEY
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1946.
LOYAL TO LAST BREATH
(Continued from Papo 1)
cruselating burning sensation a about two days, I could not few inches above my right knee. raise my arms. I had to cat Interpreter. They brought me "Ismelt the smell of burning the ball of rice they gave me, through a lengthy interrogatico flesh like that of a burnt slouk, once in the morning and ones in In very friendly and cajolling I lost consciousness, I regained the evening, from off the floor nanker. At the end of thing In-consciousness dome considerable by bending downwards. I was terrogation I was taken back to time later in my cell. There not taken out the next day. my cell,
was a round watery looking sortį "On Saturday morning in that "That evening 1-had a visit of boil about five inches above | same room beside the two ac- from a man named Howard my knee. The only treatment cused there was Howard Torr. Torr whom I also knew as Ts, I had for this came from ona] He told me that he was respon- Chi and Tse Linng. 1 had of the Chinese guards unofficial-sible for Van Bergen's and my conversation with him and thenly. Late in the evening this] arrest. He said that apart he left. The next morning Chinese guard, furtively joking from Nakashima be was tho was a Sunday morning and un-around, handed through the most powerful man in the whole
INTENSE PAIN
thing happened 'the whole day. biry a small tin of "Tiger of the Kowloon Gendarmerie and FLOGGED AND KICKED Bali." I put a thick layer of that he held my life in the "On Monday morning, some this on the wound. 1 thanked palms of his hands. When he time after 9 a.m. I was taken him with my eyes and he put asked me if I would not senal- out of my cell and brought to his finger on his lips, admonish-bly and talk, I said 'It is dif the same interrogation roon.ing silence.
ficult to talk when you have no-i found there the sume two per-
thing to talk about. sons. the Japanese and the in- "Next day in the morning 1. "He replied, “You are, Mar-! terpreter. I was told to kneel was taken sût again to the same cuş, a man of intelligence and on the Alvor before desk. I room. Only the two accused for intelligent people the men- was interrogated along the ears were there, Tsui anid Still tat torture Is worst than the lines ns at the Brut Interroga-obstinate Mr. Silva or are you physical torture you have been tion. The Japanese was hand willing to talk.' I said that I through. I am certain that ing a bamboo whip. It consist- had nothing to reveal. In reply your "thoughts are constantly ed of five or six strips of hump- to that the two- accused sudden-| with your brother Carl and boo tied around a central plait ly pulled my arms backwards, your family. I am sure You ed wire. During the course of tied them behind my back with realise I can take them in here the interrogation he kept log-a-piece of cord, pulled me to a in two shakes of a lamb'a tale." ging me sometimes the head, corner of the room where they "I turned to Torr and said '1 and acros my shoulders, argli (led the cord to a dangling piece cannot understand how and body. Toward the end of the of rope I was then pulled up un- why 'you are acting like Chis interrogation the Interpreter alsoļ til my feet were off the ground, and why you are doing this to) took part by kicking me with The pain in my shoulders was me, Pre-war we were frienda, the flat of his sole, rolling we intense. I am not sure her and you were even an occasional across the floor as one kicks along this lasted. Towards the client of mine. Do you not re-| football around. This lasted Inter stages I was semi-consci- member the number of times about an hour, 1 was then taken ous. It must have been about Carl and myself hud drinks at back to my cell.
20 minutes or more.
your place.' "BLOODY SPY"
"During the time I was bang- "TENDER MERCIES” "On the next day I was taken ing up Taui kept on asking nie "He looked at me and said “I out again in the morning Joif 1 would talk, promising re、 am afraid, Marcus, I have to the same room. On that morn-lease from the rope if I did. I leave you to the tender mercies ing I found a Japaneso called shook my head negatively, was, of these two.' Ozawa there, an interpreter, and eventually let down. I could He signed to So Leung and the two accused. On that mora- not stand and fell inte a crum. So Leung delivered about 20 ing i was accused of oblaining pled heap. While I was on the odd lashes with the bamboo false Portuguese citizenship floor in this semi-cupacions con-¦ whip. Then, as I lay on the papers for a British subject, dition I was told to get up, by, floor, Torr said 'Still not talk namely, George Van Bergen. I think. Sa Leung.
ing? I made no reply. Tsui, That was not true. Also, that "I tried to get up but when Kwok-ching then said, 'Mr. Te i was a British spy and way in I failed So leung caught on taj what about the water torture?, communication with a Mr. Lai, the back of my shorts and jerk? "They took me to a smal then allegedly in Free China at ed me to my feel, tearing my bathroom adjacent to that room. Shlukwan or Kukong. I later shirts at the back.
The two accused led me to a learned that by Mr. Lal was EFFECT OF HANGING plank or bedboard. This plank named Col. Rile of the B.A.A.G. "I was then hulf dressed and was placed on two stools in sich, It was also alleged that as such half shoved buck to my cell.
a manner that my head came a British espionage agent 1 was
below a water top. One of the in communication with Mr. Leo
accused shoved a gag into my d'Almada e Castro in Macao.
mouth and tied another gag around my mouth. This cutside KUK WAR tied in such a way that it held in place two small-; er boards on each side of my head, preventing me from shak- Inclement weather cartalled ing my head from aide to side. the Baseball last week between A rubber contraption like n U.S.S. "Los Angeles" and All small mask at one end was then Hong Kong and the game is to be placed clamping over my upper played again this Sunday at 10 lip and cheek, leaving the non- a.m. charp.
I trils free.. The other end was The line-up 18 as followe→→→ rubber tubing which was ingert- "Los Angeles"--Kropp (alt- ed into the top nozzle. cher), Henke (catcher), Jenkins UNABLE TO BREATHE "So Leung said nothing but (1st base). Anderson 2nd base), "So Leung handled the tup. had a slight smile on his face. Stevens (3rd base), Astornelia He kept letting through rushes
Gage (left-field) He seemed to derive pleasure (sport-stop).
(Capt.).
of water from time to time. Hüber
(centro-feld) from what was going on.
found myself unable to breathe then taken back to the cell.
Hong Kong-Wally Ohing except to take in water through "I next left the cell on Wed- (pitcher), Nin Lum Icatcher), my nostrils. That went on for nesday morning for a further Stan Leonard (1st base), Al five to ten minutes. I felt a interrogation in the same room. Gibeon (2nd base), Dave Leonard terrible congestion and disten- There were the same persons (Capt.) (3rd base), Artur Ozarin sion of the inside of my chest. present as on the day before. I
strip laid was told to
"My denints led to another eating with a almilar whip, The person wielding the whip WHA So Leung, the Arst ac- cused. Tsui Kwok-ching, the secund recused, took no part in that examination other than to interpose in
the interrogation by Ozawa: “Talk, you bloody British spy The whip was biting into the welts of the day before and I haul la seream with pain.
FIRE TORTURE
+
The effect of this hanging last
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Dachlor (right-field).
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short-stop), Pauf McCulloch Another board, a smaller one. (left-field), Gerry Gosuno or On
Hussain (centre-field) and Bertie was placed on my stomach and second accused, bounced on it Avich Yvanovich Gosano (right-field).
I felt as though the water was Umpires: "Doc" Molthen being forced through my eyes. ears and nose. I almost lost (plate) and Robbins.
a long table in the centre of the room and was tied to this by the two accused. Tani extract- cd a rather thin steel poker with what looked like a rubber handle from an oven with home Ive coals in an earthenware pot. "He passed the hot end an inch or two from my face. I could feel the heat.
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was taken off and Torr nuku ENSA ENTERTAINMENTS FOR H.M. FORCES
ne "Isn't that enough?" I said
44 nothing. The torture was re
in the Shield peated. At the end I was not
He then football match at the Navy quite clear what was happenmt pussed it along my body from ground, Causeway Bay, to-morrow but it was being carried out. I head to foot and then slowly will be selected from the follow-, believe to my cell. along my soles. While this was happening I was being told by the Japanese to talk and con- fess the accusations I have al ready detailed.
BURNING SENSATION "Taul brought the hot end up- wards along my right leg and as he came along to my knee)
BOY BROUGHT Procter, Lennox, McCrystall, "While in that prison I saw Pennington, Smith, Bailey. Boyd. Van Bergen from time to time, McGowan, Brown, Hanlon, Brooks, but toward the end of the third Hughes. Stokes and Cowen.
week of my stay I saw the two accused with Howard Torr lead- ing them bringing in two par- aons. One was a boy, about 1 or 14, the other was taller and
JOE DAVIS
Oldham, March 7. Joe Davis, world anooker cham-
||
he said, "If you won't talk. 1 plon, hopes to get his 200th cen older. The next morning, will shove this in." I replied tury this season.
heard from my cell the choking. Last night in the semi-final of sound of the water torture be that I could not talk as I had nothing, to reveal. I Bald. the world championship at Old- "Could you imagine me to be ham, ho got Hs 195th hundred ing, administered. I could tell fool enough to act as a spy and break playing against Stanley who was administering the wa- retain my family here in Hour Kong?" The reply was an ex-
Nowman-Router.
REAL HEAVYWEIGHTS
ter torture from the voices of the two accused.
Yacht Club Gala duw, and Charlie Collott, nearly dresses
A gala first sailing race day of the new Yacht Club will be held at Kellot Ifand to-morrow.
Thwa, dinghy races will be held, tho first starting at 1.30 p.m. Club dinghies will be available on hire. Both races are ones to club and shi
ship's dinghies. Squash courts and skittle alleys will also be available.
An invitation is extended to all members and mesage to make this
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In the most powerful story of the sky Intending members may obtain
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BOMBARDIER"
SDE TOKYO BOMBED BEFORE,
YOUR VERY EYES
Taul's volco especially won screaming obscenities at the Epsom, March 7. victim, cursing him for his ob- Two heavy-wolghts, Reg. Apetinacy in not revealing the no
of various guerilina caused the ring to collapse here whose names were on a list last night. The total weight of found on the boy when he was the two boxers was 29 stone.
Harried repairs had
be arrested. They accused the boy effooted as the boards cracked but of being a guerilla and a spy,
(Continued on Page 6) this did not appear, to under the boxer.
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