Show R s Slaughtered Chinese arch for Doolittle Fliers 0 dApril April 29 INS INS INS- troops wantonly killed 1 L Chinese civil- civil vain search for Maral Mar Ma- Ma ral r Jimmy Doolittles Doolittle's tithe th bombing of Tokyo Vincent incent cent Daniel Smith ii ona disclosed Thursa Thurs- Thurs 1 t. t smith th a member of tian n fathers told how three other Am American rican S1 to the coa coastal tal hills of Ijar tago arago ago to escape death I I d of the vengeful Jap- Jap iI ipg g General Doolittles Doolittle's l Jews ws I mith said the Japanese men women to become blackest story Had d fellow I priests hid in tiring lUring the two and one- one h the Jap army was vengeance in nith nith ith received almost t of the massacre and laid at-laid waste to whole K g over and over again S the Americans the I everyone they came die by a bullet was wasI I a priest I cannot tell i story of the d don o these helpless peo- peo and children babies mind can conceive is which were inflicted ns o of from 1500 to people were wiped out the populace killed and the homes and places of business leveled by fire This was not only in one case but it was the fate of 30 or 40 towns of such size in the I square miles of our province I Only the handful of people who I Continued on Page Three 4 5 Column Four Japs Killed Chinese In Iii Search earch for Doolittle Fliers Continued tram from Page age One une fled to the hills and were here not the Jap marauders survived survived survived sur sur- the ordeal After the he invaders finally withdrew withdrew withdrew with with- drew from the immediate area and his fellow priests returned to the missions he saw the bodies of the Jap victims He walked through the ashes of the ravished towns He said Death came in horrible forms That we learned with our own eyes One of our priests Father Humbert Verdini had begged to be allowed to remain at the main 1 mission at I Bishop Charles Quinn of Los Angeles hesitated to grant him I permission but Father Verdini argued that he was an Italian and andas andas andas as such the Japs might respect him as the subject of an allied power Then too there were 20 orphans orphans orphans or or- and more than 20 aged persons persons persons per per- sons under the protection of the mission So he stayed while we went to the hills hills to stay ahead of the J Jap p invaders All AU Were ere Kill Killed d When we returned we found nothing but death In Ina a a pond inthe in inthe th the gar garden n we f found Father Verdini's Verdini's Verdini's Ver- Ver dinis dini's body Near by were the bones of the orphans and the aged men and women Few met the merciful death that a bullet gives I Father Smith said that of the missions mission's Catholic converts I it was definitely learned that 1500 were murdered Runners from other sections of the province brought similar tales of murder and pillage He continued continued con con- We know that at least and perhaps men women and children were killed in our province alone This during the little more than two months h in which the Japs were in control What befell be be- fell the coastal provinces of Che- Che kiang and F klen where the Japs remained permanently we do not pot know There the sla slaughter was twice as great Father Smith in an exclusive interview with International l News service first revealed the extent of Jap depredations visited on the Chinese when the army last week made public the story of General Doolittles Doolittle's raid on Tokyo The priest gave fuller details of the Jap atrocities after Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of the Treasury Henry Mor- Mor Jr revealed in San Fran Francisco cisco the fact that nearly every man women and child in the ChInese Chinese Chinese Chi ChI- nese coastal areas where the American pilots abandoned their planes had been put to death |