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MASSACRE
AT BALIKPAPAN
TOKIO. Friday (A.A.P.) - A
Durch sailor, Josepa van Amstel,
told the War Crimes Tribunal to-
day, that the Japanese in 1942 mut-
ilated, drove into the sea and kil-
led all Europeans in Balikpapan,
including three Catholic priests.
Those who were not drowned were
shot, until all, approximately 80
to 100, were dead. Van Amstel
escaped by disguising himself as
an islander. He saw one priest
wading to death and blessing the
floating bodies around him.
The Japanese carried out the
massacre because the Dutch auth-
orities did not deliver the Borneo
oil refining works intact. The
islanders were forced to watch the
massacre or be beaten.
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