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JAP PROPAGANDA FILMS
TOKIO, Fri. — Australian and Dutch prisoners of war were
forced at gun point, to pose for propaganda films represent
ing them as being well fea
and luxuriously housed in
Java.
So said Netherlands' prosecu
tor Lieutenant-Colonel Sin
ninghe Damste before the War
Crimes Tribunal.
Australian Brigadier Arthur
Seaforth Blackburn in an affidavit
said that the Japanese film show
ed prisoners as handling succu
lent beef and steaming bread, but
prisoners were not allowed to eat
any of it.
They saw It and handled it, but
the Japanese ate it.
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