Show Japanese Burn Slaves Maves Too Sick 10 o Work Only oily Two Escape As Nips Fire B By RUSSELL BRINES WITH ALLIED FORCES NEAR Borneo July 3 Iff The jp-The The burning alive of starving and sick Javanese slave laborers In a a. native hospital was Charged against the Japanese army Tuesday by Netherlands officials The Japanese the officials said set fire to the native hospital before before before be be- fore driving all bodied able-bodied natives natives natives na na- na- na tives northward in the direction I of the oil fields Several Several Several Sev Sev- eral thousand natives Including Javanese and Borneo were believed to have been driven away by the Nipponese for slave labor purposes Only two hundred natives native In Including including in- in eluding two women have been found so far In this area They were placed in n a compound maintaIned maintained main main- tamed by a Netherlands Indies c civil n affairs unit Nearly all are arc pathetically beaten skeletons Only Two Escape Two men escaped from the burning hospital where an Uncounted uncounted uncounted un un- counted number burned alive Australian soldiers found the thc two huddled fuddled in foxholes as they reached the site along the road leading to the airstrip One had an old unattended leg I infection from which bones bonc pro pro- He Re gasped out pal part pait t of f the story then died The other lay dying Tuesday in the hospital unable to talk The Australians were told that Japanese soldiers strode into the flimsy wooden hospital where they kept slave laborers who were too weak to worl work but gave them no attention or medicine The Japanese announced they Intended to burn the hospital and all those able to walk could escape Only two managed to stagger dagger outside as as the torch was applied Charred Bodies lA The e Japanese fIred the hospital while the h helpless patients patients pa pa- stared at them with hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less eyes from wooden shelves which they occupied as beds When the arrived nearly nearly nearly near near near- ly all sizable buildings had been destroyed and charred bodies were scattered In the debris Other Australian troops discovered discovered ered additional natives native too weak to move In the section of ot They were in a small house surrounded by their dead compatriots Three natives found in a near-by near cave were boilIng boiling boil boil- ing leaves for tor food tood It Is la Impossible to describe the gaunt scrofulous dumbly submissive submissive submissive sive victims of ot Japanese imperialIsm imperial imperial- Ism sm now receiving medical treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment In the hospital for tor a variety of at illnesses and starvation Many had been wounded In prein- prein vas ion shellfire Maj Andre van commanding commanding com corn manding the man unit said the Japanese shipped slave laborers monthly to Java t fOrat for forit r rat at it least five months preceding the Invasion They were called hei hel ho 10 or military laborers and all received some Borne form torm of ot Japanese military training under sion The Javanese apparently were kept perpetually on a near tion diet Local natives also im impressed irn- irn m- m pressed as laborers fared somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what better because they raised some Borne food tood around their homes |