The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30

(COnClnueu from EhBe ~ heart. Then CoSgrave was stabbed twice.
 I saw one mother who was try ing to protect her small son slaSh- ed across the shoulder and then 6 big piece was cut out of her leg," the priest said.
 Butchered In Chapel The Japanese then scattered through the college, bayonetting and shooting as they went. They In. vaded the college chapel where many priests died" Cosgrave said. Those still alive were beaten to the floor.
 The priest said he stayed where he was for l2 hours, with the body of 6 woman on his head and two dead persons sprawled across his feet. He was unable to move be. cause he was too weak from loss of blood.
 Near midnight, the priest con- tinued, he dragged himself upstairs to administer last rites to the dy. ing. The stairway and corridors were filtered with the dead In the chapel he found one brother dead at the communion rail, and the bodies of several small boys in the corner. Manila, Oct. 30 = (UP) = Maj. Gen. Basilio J. Valdes, chief of staff of the Philippines Army, testified today that he found the mutilated bodies of his brother and nephews in Q pile of corpses" last Feb. 10 during the Japanese rape of Manila.
 Every skull in the grisly pile had been crushed and the hands of every victim were roped = mute evidence of their brutal murders by the Jap. anese, valdes told the military tri. bunal trying Japanese Gen. Tonio- yuki Yamashita for l23 war crimes in the Philippines.
 Vaides' slain brother was It. Col. Alejo Valdes of the Philippine Army.
 On Trial For Life
 Yamashita is on trial for his life charged with responsibility for the deaths of 57,000 Americans, Fiiipinos and others through murder, torture, starvation and neglect while he was Japanese commander in the Philip. pines in i944 and io45. X
 Mrs. Angelo Lopez Valdes, widow of Lieutenar1t- Colonel Valdes, told the tribunal how 70 to 30 Japan0ee armed with bayonet-tipped rifles searched her home and Kidnapped her husband, son and brother-in- law. All subsequently, were found slain.
 A lone Japanese soldier returned late ct night and attempted to rape her ib-year-old daughter, she said. She said she threw herself between her daughter and the Japanese, who was standing with drawn pistol.
 "Qo ahead and kill mel" sine told the Japanese.
 Tie Japanese turned and ran from the house.
 Four Bodies Found
 Mrs. Jiista Guido testified that some 20 to 30 Japanese soldiers searched her home Feb. 6. After getting drunk on stolen liquor, cat. ing the family food supplies and stealing precious jewels and 5000 pesos, the Japanese left with her husband and three sons.
 The hands of ali four were tied behind their backs, she said. Their bodies were found later also.
 The Japanese returned two days later and nachine-sunned her home Mrs. Guido said, but sine and her family were hiding beneath the structure and escaped injury.
 The courtroom in the American High Commissioners residence again was crowded. More than 100 American officers afid enlisted men and Filipino civilians were in line one and c half hours before the session opened.
 OIL BURNER FIRE
 Engines 2 and 10, Truck 1 and tho Emergency Truck responded last night to . fire at the homo of Mark MaFgotti, 2l Saving street. A defective cil burner range was tho eaisec.