Japanese Tortures In Shanghai
FURTHER EVIDENCE GIVEN
AT WAR CRIMES TRIAL
Further evidence of tortures suffered at the hands of the Japanese Gendarmerie in Shanghai during the period of the Pacific War was given this morning before the War Crimes Court at Lyemun Barracks.
B. P. Young, a Chinese national formerly employed by the Chinese Government, testified to ill-treatment undergone at the Union Jack Club in Shanghai, as a result of which he spent six months in hospital when released.
Among the were
The accused in the case are Chinese name! Vong. LL-Gen. Kinoshita Eiichi, who prisoners allegedly ill-treated
the Rev. W. H. Hudspeth, Jolin was in command of the Shang-Martin Watson, Hans Rechlie, Henry
Edwin hal Kempeltal between 1942 Forsythe Pringle,
Arthur and 1944, and Sgt. Yoshida Bunzo, then a corporal attached to the Special Branch of the Gendarmerie.
of
Kinoshita faces three charges being concerned in the ill-treatment of prisoners, resulting in the death of William Hutton, a former member
Police. and of the Shanghai
Menuhin Not Coming Here
Yehudi Menuhin, inter- vio- nationally renowned linist, who is at present appearing in Manila, is not coming to Hongkong.
This information was rc- ceived this morning by cable by Mr R. T. Burch, manager of Messrs Moutries.
In his message, Menuhin said he was sorry he could not visit Hongkong as his time was too limited.
Ex-Actress Found Dead
Thompson, Kenneth William John- James Robert Canning tone, William State Bungey. Arthur Vie cent Reavey Dean, C. D. Komareif. Patrick Samuel Gibbon, Alexander
Joseph Haindrava; Morris
Soule Frank. vitch. Evans Daw, Boris S. Boris Topas, J. A. Cook, Eric Davies and B. P. Young.
Yoshida only faces one count of 1-treatment in which he is jointly charged with Kinoshiin with being concerned in fulton's death.
MEMBERS OF COURT
The Court comprises LI-Col. L. A. Massie, Royal Scots Fusilliers (Pre- sident). Maj. B. H. Craig, The Buffs, and Capt. 11. M. McLeod-Martin, Middlesex Regt (Members).
The Prosecutor is Maj. Peter Clague, HA (Deputy Assistant Di- rector of Army Legal Services, CIQ, FARELF), Kinoshita is defended hy Mr Kakeh Masao (Japanese law- yer), with
with Capl, W. R. L. Herries. Royal Sussex Regt, as Advisory Officer to the defence.
ter-
Yoshida, who declined the viers of Mr Kakehl, is conducting his own defence.
1043 and taken
Young this told the court that he was to the Unton Jack on March 16,
Clubs in Myrburgh Road, Shanghai, where he was interrogated and sub- jected to both the electric torture and the "rack." Subsequently, he under other tortures, such I was put
as the water treatment and beatings nt the hands of the Japanese.
In prison with him, said witnes, were Mr Eric Davies and Mr John 22, Shanghat Hollywood, Oct. 31. Ex-A. Cook, aged
Both were in u bad nctress Mary Nolan, 42, who businessman. was the toast of Broadwayway and appeared also to have been
-ireated, said Young. Imogene 25
yenra ago "Bubbles" Wilson. was found dead today by a lodger at her
as
SENTENCED & PARDONED
sister's home where she lived.he Union Jack Club to a Military Witness suld he was taken from An autopsy has been ordered Court on April 10, 1943, and
was sentenced to five years Imprison- to determine
ment. He was later pardoned and death,
released on April 28, 1943.
the
cause
of
A report by detetives sold the former stage and screen beauty had years, once tried suicide in recent by lashing her wrists and once by taking drugs.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1948.
House Movers Escape Death In Collapse
Peruvian UN Delegate Resigns His Office
Paris, Oct. 31.-Mr Enrique Garcia Sayan resigned tonight as Chairman of the Peruvian delegation to the United Nations because of the overthrow of the Peruvian Government.
The spokesman for Mr Sayan said that the other key members of the delegation would also quit, letting the Only the new delegation. military junta in Peru name career diplomats of the Peruvian Foreign Office are re- maining, the spokesman said.
Mr
Garcia Sayon served as President Jose Luis Bustamente for Foreign Minister under the deposed two years, giving up the post only F1 few months ago.
the
Mr Garcin Sayan sent this cable to de facto Government in Peru: President "The overthrowing of Bustamente while he was devoting wellbeing himself to the general of Peru and toleration of that re- presented by the Aprista movement, constitutes a condemnable act of all those who should have co-operated The revolution assumes with him. thus the characteristics of an
au ap. palling lajustice perpetrated against a man highly gifted for his position und thereby amounts to a most de- moralising net in our political life
"I herewith irrevocably resign chairmanship of the Peruvian dele-
General As gation
to the third sembly of the United Nations, which by Pres-
has been entrusted to me dent Bustamente. On doing so, wish to state proudly, that it was a pleasure and honour for me to work with President Bustumente on
As a direct result of the sufferings he had undergone at the hands of the Japanese, said Young, he had to undergo treatment in hospital for six mont
behalf of his policies of nationial Cross-examined by defence coun- dignity, being fully aware that by tiny sel, Young said he sow Kinoshita
dolog so I am collaborating, with a Intter visited the great patriot and outstandig states once when the
slated
ho that
was Iman.' "United Press. malnutrition in a rented room. With prison. He the help of the Motion Picture Re-arrested because the Japanese 30- placed in the used him of knowing English and llef Fund she was Cedars_of_Lebanon Hospital.
was trying to help his English and American friends,
Last spring Miss Nolan, a blonde, was found suffering from
ns Mary
tures na Mary Robertson, she came to Hollywood in 1927 Nolan United Press.
RUSSIAN ARRESTED
10
to the man,
MARINE COURT-
CASES
was Aned $50 or 10 days by Mr
NANCY HELD UP
The U.S. West Coast shipping strike has held up supplies of the popular cartoon strip, "Nancy." Arrangements have been made for delivery' by air mail, and it is hoped to resume this popular fenture in a few days.
Mrs Kasenkina's
Own Story
(Continued from Page 4)
. Six house movers, eating their lunches under this newly moved apartment house in Los Angeles, miraculously escaped death when the two-storey frame building collapsed. The front section of the building had just been lowered to its new foundations when it crumpled and splattered · into a pile of rubble. Six scared movers crawled out from underneath-none of them even scratched.-AP
Picture.
All Over In Mukden
(Continued from Page 1)
be
The cargo, originally intended for shipment in December, will carried in Army and Navy vessels so that it will not be delayed by the West Coast shipping strike.
A State Department spokesman said in the meantime that the Go- vernment hal now transferred US$105,000,000 in military aid funds to the Chiang Kai-shek regime. That is 85 per cent of the US$125,-
valed to 000,000 Congress
help Com- Chlong against the Chinese munists.
an-
The last Stale Department
Chinese the nouncement on
ald was made on October 11. At that time, US$88,275,000 had been turned over to China.
My worry over the press inter- view grew into anxiety when newspapers containing the reports of the affair were kept from me. It became clear that I was being ex- ploited for propoganda
עית
purposes. At the same time the solicitude for health displayed by iny Fuardians was disgusting to They were playing with me.
The United Press' informant re~ the fused to identify the nature of
it Was me."big" shipment, but said
being handled by the Army
Department. That
can get for
.fashioluble
D3
GLOOMY NEWS
coincided with gloomy news
Ord-
could
from
In the morning the women wouldnance bring in ten, and one of them usually mean any type of guns and ammuni breakfasted with me. I had all my tion, tanks or other military vehicles. Misa Nolan was the talk of show
neals with them in the room on business in the 1920's when she was
Ziegfeld Follies slár, but
the third floor, but ate very little. illness and misfortune sent her
the DA
A Soviel citizen. Alexander Hain- The master of a large fishing junk something special we
"What can we do for you, is there Word of the impending shipment downward path and she lived in drava, 27, said he was arrested by obscurity for more than a decade. Japanese gendarmes whilst walking Cairns at the Marine Court this you?" they would ask. Police reports said she was treated along Boule Doumer, in Shanghai, morning for falling to take out a
In the street outside, upon which the Chinese capital. A high Chinese that "he the two windows of my room look-official here admitted as a narcotics addict ten years ago.
said he on October 2, 1942, and taken
He pleaded licence for his vessel.. that he was only
passing through ed out, there was unusual and in-situation looks bad" but of the the
vessant activity. Through
the believed "speculation is wide of its She was known as America's most Bridge House He was placed in a
cell, where he found one
Colony,
drown curtains and behind the mark. beautiful showgirl when she was
American airmen attached
The master of another fishing junk Doolittle
The Squadron, star on Broadway in 1922 and, after
The joint Congressional walchdog" committee on foreign starring in European motion pic-Licut Halimark, was lying on the was fined $10 or two days for failing drapes at the window sides I could to renew his licence, which Expired see knots of people on the sidewalk
and in front of the floor and had not even the strength
in June 1947. He stated he had left hotel across, gazing at the Consu-aid is studying China closely, Only to it himself. Several times wit-
last week it announced that William theast Hongkong that year and had only late. 1 caught glimpses of Lig nsk airman ness heard the
Bullitt, former American Japanese to transfer him to a POW Just returned from Swabuc
Ambassador to class IV boat had reporters, photographers and police C. The master of
Moscow, had been Camp and to treat him as a POW,
accosting the consular offelals
named spelal emissary to investigate his pleas were ignored. The his ball of $10 estreated when he they came and wont.
and report failed to appear
the Chinese situation The Consulate Itself became some- charge Japanese just laughed at him.
niege. back "with recommendations." The second day after his arrest, failing to renew his licence.
thing like a fortress under Haindrava said he was interrogated. The masters of two boats were Brom the Amtorg and the UN per
Mr Bullitt, who recently broke Ho was
of
for paper cautioned was shown a piece
failing to take out sonnel, Soviet otiletals were recruit-
that ed and installed in our building as will leave on November 9 for Nan- with President Truman politically, "confession" allegedly licences containing a
when they pleaded
Just orrived written by himself, and was asked they had
from if they were preparing to repel an
king. He has been an outspoken invasion. Every few minutes some- and
aid for Was Chinese territory.
advocate of more military The arrival of three firefight-to sign it. He refused,
For carrying cargo on his boat, one would efter pass my room or then ordered to lie on a bench and
President Chlang. as has the ald ing appliances at the Ice House given the electric treatment, will the master of a fishing funk was look into it.
Committee chairman, Senator Styles Yet the vigil inside and outside
mission led Street
of Prince's his hands entrance
Bridges. Mr Bullitt's underneath. fined $150 or two weeks. handcuffed
I felt that I was gave me courage.
to speculation that the Government's Building shortly after noon to- The torture was applied to the most 75 bags of lime on board.
that I had the no longer alone,
Chinese policy would undergo a support of the American people. swift chango day caused no little excitement sensitive parts of his body.
if Thomas Dewey The following day, he was given
This became strikingly evident when
were elected President. and attracted a large crowd. the
additionally, same torture and
Lomakin was served with They had been sent in response to the water treatment, as well as being from Central Police subjected to other Indignies, Al ametsage
in that Station at 1221 pin. reporting a together, he was tortured
manner on four occasions. He was Are in Prince's Building.
finally released on December 3, 1042.
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JEWS WIN N.
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in produce me an American. Under present procedure, court. There was much excitement must buy her military supplies with over 1 In the consulate. There aid funds turned over by the State were moments when it was thought Department. The Department cannot that the police chiefs who called on participate in the purchases. How- Investigating, Acting Chief Fire
Senegalese troops, who have been Lomakin would insist on seeing me ever, the armed services can handle Dewey Favoured OTHER FOREIGNERS W. Brand and Station Omeer C
Judge. such purchases if Chinese officials Havre since and taking me before the unloading coal at Le Among other foreigners in
do so and it is request them to not to handle Then my keepers would become ex- Officer. C. W. Browne discovered
the dockers decided that one of the lift motors housed Bridge House while he was there
coal cargoes, today began unloading tromely concerned over my welfare. understood the Army acquired the
chief witness," "You'll be our the building had were Mr Soulavitch, Mr Harry the roof of
three ships lying at the quay-the
impending shipment-United Press. The
electric mains Fringle, Mr Evans Daw, Mr K. W. British ships Mirim, Sea Connett Vice-Consul Chepurnykh sald to me caught fire.. were immediately switched off, and Johnstone, Mr. Boris Frank, Miss and the Italian Giovanni Amendola. one day in his most endearing man
Duguet, M. Victorin the fire soon died out. There was Petrova, thid several others, some of
Secretary ner. to the motor whose
I thought otherwise. By this tim? names ho could
not re- General of the Communist Miners no damage except
Blan, I realised that my appearance in an Federation, and M.. Celestin installation
were American court would be my last On one occasion. Haindrava mald secretary of the Federation,
break away from my A party of police under ASP Nho saw Kinoshita when the latter suspended from their posts on the chance to
goolers and to reach pn open road Rolfe was present to keep order.
camo on an Inspection of the cells. French National Cont Board by a Kinoshita was "dressed in Japanese decree of the Ministry of Industry to freedom:
published in the Army officers' uniform with plenty and Commerco
Steamer Aground
Pan
Deal, England, October 31-The crow. of the Panama steamer, and gangs of men from Dover to-
member.
of gold braid and wearing rows of Journal Officiel today,
order Ho
said they The medal ribbons on his chest, was among party of officers, and suspended "because of the Incom- existing between the seemed to be given every respect patibility
exercise of the functions during his tour,
Describing cell in which he was incarcerated, appeal addressed
AMERICAN MURDERED
New York, Cut. 31-An eva of of the 48 States election today indicates that Governor Thomas E, Dewey will be elected President of the United States on Tucaday
majority,
with
(Continued from-Page 1)
commanding The Arabs lost hundreds in killed and captured for, the loss of “sot A nation-wide survey published more than 10" Israeli troops killed,
the spokesman 'added, (Continued from Pare 1)
by the New York Times gave Dewey, ¦ the Republican candidate, 845 prob-
The spokesman told the Israeli Two Russians continuously beatable electoral votes from 23 States
tho Ross and threw
unconscious and President Truman, 105 probable troops were met by the Druze vil-
The lagers' who asked for protection and· The electoral votes from 11 States. girl out of the moving car".
nasistance. In "ridding themselves of other two soldiers followed in their
Governor Strom Thurmond,” of Kawukji's troops, who had been Jeep.
The Austrian police found Ross South Carolina, the States Rights persecuting them for a long time." slumped behind the steering wheel (Dixiecrat) candidate, according to
of his car. The ignition wires and these reports appeared certain to He asserted that a Lebanese Southern states vigo had niso asked for Israeli four wheels had been removed, carry An appeal brought by the four They found the girl about 3 a.m. Alabama Louisiana, Mississippi and protection: bat had been told that
brought her to hospital for the South Carolina" with a total of 38 they need not surrender mon convicted: piracy jure treatment of "critical wounds
she electoral veles. These Btates are cll Trolls were hop/Bghting the gentium on board the Dutch steamer Van Heutaz on December 14 Inst sustained from the hands of the opposed to the major Parties' plans Lebanese. was refused by the Full Court this Russian soldiers," according to the calling for the abolition of racial
Police repor
discrimination
were
(Tomorrow: Mrs Kasenkina's Drantatie Leap to-Freedom)
REFUSED
the condition of the ministrators of the Board and the PIRACY APPEAL
albility
their respon-
of
08 tho
day laboured to toss. overboard pats Haindrava said it was smelly, cold, safely devices in the mines."
to the miners to suppress of cargo of manganese ore in an
and full
of lice. A single
M. Raymond Tournemaine Secre- effort to lighten her,
tavatory was placed in the cell, and
tary General of the Communist- The Pau tan aground three miles It was used by every one of the
led Railwaymen's Federation, was South of Cape Gris Nez lighthouse,
male and female. As for inmates.
A also suspended from his post on the washing facilities, two buckets were National Coal Board. He had on Saturday night in the fog.
:: The Karaqli shokásmän added that An attempt by the Dover tug brought in each morning for the biz already been suspended from his morning.
.one bucket.
Three of the men had been, sen-Late this afternoon the girl re- og ung for the directorship of the French Railways "Landy Brassey" to pull her off this calls, and
to tenced to nine years, with 10 strokes gained consciousness for a few Four States with a total of 43 some of the sectors captured in th
helloved, to be morning failed. The Lady Brassoy smaller cells, and all the prisoners after his union had uppealed
Geftians" and "Yugoslava-Router) Tul-Reuter, railwaymen to stop trains carrying of the cane and the fourth to six minutes and told investigators what plectoral votes were listed as doubt-Galilée ardor were Is to make holler trypt ligh had to wash out of theso receptacles
had happened.United Press. The trial is proceeding.
Imported coal-Reuter,
yenra. water tonight-United Press.
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