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We nhall have our reprjaala, but they will lie directed ogalnst the officials of the Japanese gos'err.ment who have directed or instigated these’ crimee.1'The executions by no means represented Japan's first disregard of military procedure.• The war. waVJess than a month old whan the war department In 1ta communique No. 35 on Dec. 30,1911, tcld of damage done to undefended Manila by The repeated senselessaiuL.aayage homblrig by Japanese Aircraft after It had been declared an open city.'* included in.. that communique, which charged the enemy with deliberately selecting churches, an! other centers of. Christian worship and culture ns special targets, was this radiogram from Gen. Douglas MacArthur;Enemy mercilessly bombed the open city of Manila using.63 bomb.ere. Damage ban been severe and Includes all types of civilian installations, such as churches, tho cathedral, hospitals, convents, business and private’dwellings It Is nolnble thnt before Manila was declared an' open city and before our anti-aircraft deefnse evacuated therefrom he hatf abstained from attempted bombing of anything in Manila except military Installations, Ilia present actions can only bo deemed completely violative of all the civilize! processes of International Jaw, At the proper time I bespeak due. retaliatory measures. ' '• Japan did not say' how many American fliers It had put to death but informed this government thru Swiss channels that It had tried those captured and sentenced them to death. The sentence wa» commuted for f*1© “larger number’' of them, the’ note added, hut wm carried out on the others,Of the SO officer* and men who /lew (O Japan with MaJ. Genera!Btrictly a one-way-ticket.- 1 Ope statement said: -You raid us and ve raid you, It's all a part of the *ar, Americans.— * tliil .12 Dead inPlane Crash(AaaeUtpd Pr«jl • 'Eyarfsville,; Ind., April 22.—An army airplane crashed while making a landing at the Evansville Municipal airporL shortly before lostmidnight and 32 men were killed. Major F. C. DlckEon, army repre* sentatlve at the field, reported. • Major Dickson issued tills formal statement:An army airplane crashed at the Evansville airport at 11:26 P. M. central war time (10:26 . P. M., M, W. T.) Wcdneaday and 12 men were reported killed. Their names are withheld pending notificationof thcir^next,’of kin.”Employes at the field aafd the plane approached from the south and Hghta.wera turned on to facilitate Its landing.‘ They said that t»3 It neared the control tower at a low altitude the pilot apparently decided to makeanother circle of the field before landing • but •’ the . ship Mailed and' fell, rolling over and ever aa it hit the ground. •’ i‘ Flames flared up immediately. At Indianapolis, Slate Police Captain Walter Eckerl said a 'police teletype error resulted in an early report that 19 men were killed Jn the crash.MBoy‘;Jrouble Reported . j : Police had two complain I a of boy fTmihle Wednesday. Boys were reported climbing electric DowerlineTemple and the name of G the people th( tithes and tf above these tl pay all that civil, politics Hon, .(Thoso p up on.religion tlie people; peity graft oiand hlrd-and-oly. When Jlt; lings from tht his Father's prayer for al be sure tlial understood Ji from two amcaught the 1nunclatfon. TJy to plot his Jesua had tho masses, posed the fu Messianic dn Jerusalem as peeled to en done whnt th slab, to do. T of realism on was calling h the truth, Bulost iuterest : Isblng their i Enlg. Why did J« do not knowambition,'. res of l he'so ma Perhaps tbe that Juda3 w cerely believe Biah, but grBw unwillingnessprecipitated where It woi Him to use I era. Ferhaps ; bo a traitor; 1 Jiiir. officious like that.
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Greeley, Colorado, US

Thu, Apr 22, 1943

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