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JAPS KILL WIVESý.. AND CHILDREN
:Japaniese .soliers. on',.Saipan 'Island are shooting their wives and4
*childreni. and have evene cut' their throats to prevent them from
surpendering:to .tthe . victorio'us:'American, 'troops.
S leutentant.., :-GQeral:' Hdw1and
.:Shmi:h,.'commander -of: land. forces,':
coinfirnmed :these storiesaOf 'almOst,
" .unbelievable JapaneseL-brutality in'
S.an initervliew . . .
"These neconle are not 'hiuman,"
'he said.' 'They've beet -'treatirng their
wo-imeri iiand children' "like -tinmials."
SHd' described 'how a" Japanese cap
tain first shot a" 18-months-old child,
and, then cut, the thro.t of his wife
as the Americans advanced.
The *woman was found with the
'baby "' her' arnims arid- almdst dead
fioml the gash in her throat. She was
thkL n to hbspital, where she' revealed
d&taIils of' her husband's action.
.'This isn't. an. isolated case," Gen
.eral. Smith .said. "There. have been
many Instances of. snipers shooting
.their own women and children as they
advance, towards our lines to sur
render..,
!"Japan*se troops haie taken good
care 'to. .se. that ..they are ' well proe
v1ded 'with foo6d and water, but they
have left women 'end children to die
from thirst and starvation.
"I found it difficult to believe- when
I iift ar.rfved' Here that people could
be. : bestial :aid aimal like."
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