Evening star., 1945-10-07
Yamashita 10 Be Held
Responsible for All
Philippines Atrocities
BY the Associated Press.

=. Ss tue ASSOCIATED Press.
MANILA, Oct. 6.-Standard pro.
cedure of United States Army court.
martial will be followed to the rigic
letter of the law when japanese
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita is ar.
raigned Monday on charges of dere-
liction of duty which may cost him
his life.
Yamashita will be arraigned for
mally on charges that he "unlaw.
fully disregarded and failed to dis
charge his duty as commander to
control the operations of members
of his command, permitting them
to commit atrocities and other high
crimes against the people of The
United States and of its allies and
dependencies"
The indictment is so drawn as to
permit introduction of evidence OF
all Japanese atrocities in the
Philippines during the period from
October 9. 1914, to September 2
1945, when Yamashita was in COM
mand. AS commanding general, he
was responsible under the laws of
war for acts of his command.
u. 8. Off1cers to Be Called.
Wide latitude in the introduction
of evidence on Yamashita's degree
OF control over his troops is ex-
pected. American officers indicated
that prisoners of war and Filipinos
who suffered at the hands of
Yamashita's forces likely will be
called as witnesses.
Date Of the trial is expected to
be fixed at Mondays arraignment.
Yamashita will be permitted to
call Japanese defense counsel from
his homeland, or he may accept
designated American Army counsel
So far he has not indicated how he
plans to plead or whether he de-
sires special defense counsel. If he
requests Japanese counsel, the ar
raignment probably will be halted
while his attorneys are flown in from
Japan.
The trial is the first of alleged
war criminals to be held in the
Philippines.
Trial Generals Listed.
The prosecution is expected to de-
mand the death penalty as an OBJ
ject lesson that retribution inexor-
ably overtakes violations of the laws
of war, particularly acts of torture
and violence against helpless pris-
oners and the civil populace.
An1arinan 1c u,Io 80
In Judgment on the bullet-headed
enemy commander are:
Maj. Gen. r. B. Reynolds, Dundee
Mich, assistant chief of staff of
Army Forces in the Western Pacific;
Maj. Gen. j. A. Lester, Columbia.
s. c., military police commander in
the Western Pacific; Maj. Gen. c.
L. Sturdevant, Washington, D. c.,
deputy chief of staff for administra-
tion of Army Forces in the Western
Pacific; Brig. Gen. w. G. Walker.
Washington, D. c., deputy assistant
chief of staff for Army Forces in
the Western Pacific, and Brig. Gen.
e. r. Bullene, Pacific Grove, Calf.
chief chemical officer of Army Forces
In the Western Pacific.
Maj. Gen. c. L. Sturdevant now
is in Manila with headquarters of
the Army Services Forces. Previ-
'ously, he had been assistant chief
of the Corps of Engineers at Army
headquarters here.
A native of Wisconsin, he was
graduated from the Military Acad-
emy in 1908. His wife, a daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Sturdevant, and a
son, John, who received his dis
charge recently after three years
IN China with the Army Air Forces
communications division, live at 1000
Cathedral avenue NV.
Brig. Gen. William G. Walker Is
deputy supply officer with Army
headquarters in Manila. From Au-
gust, 1941, to December, 1914, he
was supply officer on the staff of the
Army War College. Transferred
from there to Fort Benning, Ga, he
went to Manila last July.
Maj. w. G. Walker, jr., the gen.
erals son, said last night he hoped
his father would succeed in getting
Yamashito where he had failed
Last January, he said. he was pilot
OF a B-24 which took part in a
special bombing mission against
Yamashita's headquarters at Baguio.
Another son, Capt. James H. Walker
returned recently from duty with
the 9th Air Force in England.
The generals wife, sons and
daughter, Mrs. r. c. Buchanan,
whose husband is stationed in the
Philippines, lives at 3612 Quesada
street NV.