The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-11-09
Tells
 Of Japanese
 Imprisonment

WASHINGTON Believing it will
 be of interest throughout Alaska,
 there is quoted below a statement
 made by one of the Aleuts captur-
 ed by the Japanese on Attu in 1942
 The report was made to Monroe
 Sweetland, American Red Cross
 Field Director with the 10th Army
 when the Aleut passed through Ok
 inawa on his return to Alaska
 from Japan. The report is entitled
 News of Life in Japan from 1922
 to 1945. Now Different.":
 June !, Sunday The morning
 3 o'clock day breaking we saw
 boats outside of Bay, and we
 thought they were U. $. Nays so
 we didn't mind it. Later on 6 O.
 clock We send small boat with outboard motors on. They saw an airplane fly over the village. We still thought it was Navy. o'clock
 we all went to Sunday church. By
 that time the Japs went ashore on
 iand and they come from side or mountain. After we finished our church there they come down the west side of hill run with rifles and machine guns and start to shooting village. One lady was shot on leg but she got well again. When Japanese army come into village call for everyone. The officers use swords 10 gather everybody then. The commander name was anna zaki. After he gathered everyoEe he put MT. and Mrs. Jones Ill one room. MT. Jones he Was radio operator and Mrs. was teacher then. 1t was 10 o'clock tlen Nh>.lI the oaps got finished wItn ne, every house was searched and all the guns was taken then Dvjiu-- that they took all they wan, IrJ.- house. They send us home Wa guards evening o'clock. The laps call me out from my house to hep them to take MT. and Mrs. Jones out from school to another house. He was calling for his bed and blankets. these Japs won't let them have it tell him hurry up and get out from school and then Jap ofTi- cer start to get ruff on him and slap him on his face and kick him on his back leg and done same thing to his wife too. l left them I didn't know what was next. Next morning o'clock Jap commander call for everyone so we went by flag pole and he head something and rise Japanese flag over us and take picture of whole thing of Vil- lage and us then. EVerytime when We ask for go to fishing, policemen must be always with us. We make ask for boats, too. Kill if we don't. We will get punished for that. They make us to go fishing for them. And then in part of Sep tember they tell us we must go to Jap and we tell them We don't want to go but they tell us We must go to Jap and promise us they Will take us home again when the war is over so we said yes to them and we left September 16 evening left Attu to Hikkaido Otaru. We got in Otaru Bay 12 o'clock mid night 26th September, 1942. We went ashore on Otaru City they give us old house No. 3S3 and We start to work in November 11,l942. Ten of men start to working on clSy and these men get sick one by one finally we were five alto gether then later in 1945,. Decem- Der. ue stop working then because .veryone got sick and got in hos pital from that May 26 and 27 some men went out from and we start to making gardens and dig ging holes for caves to get safe from bombing city. In month of August Is, 1945, they let us stop working and they gave us our working payment. Then this is far I kunuy v