Footnotes to War II

The Manila trial of tall (6 ft.) Lieut. General Masaharu Homma added three new footnotes to history:

P:A Filipino girl told the court that she had been raped, next day had reported the attack to the local Japanese commander. An attorney asked: "Had you ever seen him before?" "Yes, sir," she replied. "He was the one who raped me."

P:Eyewitnesses testified that Homma's artillery and bombers blasted away at Corregidor for 24 hours after a white flag had been hoisted on the Rock's 660-ft. summit.

P:Mrs. Homma, who flew from Tokyo as a character witness for her husband, described him to reporters as a bookish poet, "kind and considerate to his wife, servants and children." He dabbled in Chinese poetry, liked "serious literature," was especially fond of Galsworthy and Shaw. His favorite English-language novel: Gone With the Wind. (Army Intelligence said that he read a chapter nightly on Bataan before retiring, asked Tokyo to rush him the movie "when the Japanese land in California.")

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.