Show SYDNEY Sept 17 UP UP Dep Deputy I uty Prime PrIm Minister Francis Francia M M. Forde Fords Monday cited the Japanese massacre of ot 21 lS A Australian nurses nuru on Bank Banka island bland off southern Sumatra Sumatra Sumatra Su Su- matra as s an outstanding example of at why Tokyo's war criminals must be crushed This Is the worst wont atrocity ever perpetrated in the worlds world's history he said The story was told lM by 24 survivors survivors survivors sur sur- of ot the original party of ot 65 nurses nurse who attempted to escape from Singapore In 1942 The 24 women were brought from their I prison camp in the depths of ot the Sumatra Jungle by an R RAAF A A F transport plane They said their boat was sunk In the Banka straits and the Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese ruthlessly murdered 21 nurses on the beach after they had landed from the wreck The only survivor of this particular lar tar group was Nurse Vivien Vivian Bull Bull- when the rest were mowed down by gunfire anc and left with the tho others othen lying with her face fa-e In the tha water water mistaken mistaken 1 for tor dead I |