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Show JAPANESE ALLY TAKEN They Suffer Torture on Desert While Evading Authorities Los Angeles, June 23. Tracked by immigration officials for two weeks across the desolate sands of tho Arizona Ari-zona desert, buffering intolerable fjr-. turcs from the torrid heat, thirst and hunger, being. finally, compelled to kill one of their 'pack burros, drink its blood and use.. the flesh for food, two Japanese, charged with being illegally illegal-ly in the United States from Mexico, were driven to bay Monday in a box car. a short distance east of Needlps, captured and taken to jail. They will be brought to Los Angeles for trial. The two men are supposed to have crossed the international line near Yuma, with two well laden pack animals. ani-mals. The immigration officials were notified, when one of the burros of the Japanese wandered into Avalon. Ariz., with a bucket of blood arvl . pieces of flesh, cut from the other burro, bur-ro, tied to the saddle. After a hunt of a fortnight. In which several r.f the pursers' nearly-lost their lives on the desert, the fugitives v. ere finally run down, and captured. |