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Show Doctors and Nurses Atrocity Victims Escaped Seaman Describes Japanese Tortures. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. A story of Japanese brutality in -the Philippines Philip-pines including atrocities upon American doctors and nurses was related here by Samuel Roberts, 26-- 26-- - yer-old navy machinist mate. -- He said he saw the bodies of doctors, doc-tors, their- clothing removed, their hands chopped off and their ears slashed from their bloody heads. Bodies of nurses, he said, showed signs of worse treatment "Bodies of two nurses and four doctors were found in one place," Roberts said, "and they were not pretty sights. It was awful." Roberts said he was captured by the Japanese soon after the outbreak out-break of the war and placed in a concentration camp, but escaped and made his way to engage with the American forces in the fighting in the Philippines. While he was in the concentration camp, he said, the Japanese tortured tor-tured him in an efTort to obtain information, in-formation, j "They shoved rice straws under my fingernails and set them on fire. They put glass in my shoes and made me walk around." Roberts enlisted in 1940, navy authorities here said. He told his story as a naval officer stood by to see that no information of value to the enemy was revealed. The San Antonian told also of seeing his buddy who had escaped with him from concentration and two other men go to their deaths on a destroyer's bridge as they manned a machine gun in blazing oil on water covering the ship. "They just stood there firing away with the machine gun until they dropped in flames," Roberts said. |