European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Jap general had a record of rapine and cruelty from Malaya to the As he sat in the evidence piled up higher and higher against by Jim Gianladis yank staff correspondent girls came into the hushed shamefaced and they told of being along with 400 into four Manila hotels and raped by lines of Jap at the defense impeccably wearing four rows of Campaign sat general Tomoyuki charged with the responsibility for these he was often a Little he heard himself described As a Man who permitted Tor Ture and rape and the Gen eral once the general was known As the Tiger of he was commander of the Imperial japanese army in the brought to he was asking for the mercy in which he did not in the Bullet scarred High commissioners of where he once ruled As a Gen eral Yamashita stood before a tribunal of five generals As the first Jap Leader to be tried As a War he was receiving a fair according to the general haunt bothered to give his Yamashita was the most hated Man in the and he came into the 1 courtroom guarded by 75 he had been brought secretly from new Bilibio prison in an army Yamashita wore a Gray Green White sport military his head was he fingered his Campaign occasionally he rubbed his right hand Over his potato shaped sobbing girl witnesses told of repeated attacks by Jap Many of the girls said they were forced to submit at Bayonet these attacks took place in february in the hours preceding the reentry of the american troops into an extract of the testimony were any of the women tortured i went into one there were three filipino girls a 12yearold was lying on a mat on the she was covered with blood and the mat where she was lying was saturated with was the girl conscious but she seemed dazed and stunned and i  get her to talk or she kept covering her face with her i was unable to help she appeared Semi conscious and was and apparently was suffering another witness during the first night in the lobby of the two russian girls were taken and the girls were and and both were did any of the girls say on their return what had happened one girl my my they raped the witness said that two other one 13 and the other were forced repeatedly to leave the room with the How could you Tell they had been abused the younger girl had to be carried into the As the witnesses described these Yamashita listened a Little contemptuous sometimes the witnesses looked straight at when this Yamashita looked the other at the defense at Yamashita sat his personal Masakatsu a graduate of Harvard Law school class of the court permitted the general to retain Yammamoto when the general complained that he was unable to understand the expert interpreters furnished by the five general commission trying the the court informed at the begin Ning of the that it had selected his Legal but added that the court was willing to accept any counsel whom Yamashita when this translation was Yamashita made a Quick Little nod of faced the commission and answered in japanese i am Happy to accept the Choice of the commission As to my i am highly honoured to have been Given such distinguished persons to represent this statement came As a it had been predicted that Yamashita would press vigorously for the right to name his own barely allowing time for his statement to be Yamashita continued i would also like my chief of Akira and my Deputy chief of As additional there Are a number of records and facts with which they alone Are i need their advice and this brought an immediate protest from the Robert Kerr of port on the ground that it is entirely irregular that a witness for the defense should also represent the accused As the com overruling the stated that the commission would accept the officers named As associate defense this translation brought another Quick nod from he said to the commission in carefully enunciated japanese i thank the court for the admittance of the Afore named Gen at this Point the commission asked Yamashita if he wanted to have the charge and specifications translated for he said that he did not want to hear a Reading of the Here the presiding took a sterner stating the charge twill be read to the the charge stated Tomoyuki general Imperial japanese Between 9 october 1944 and 2 september at Manila and at other places in the philippine while commander of armed forces of Japan at War with the United states of America and its unlawfully disregarded and failed to Dis charge his duty As commander to control the operations of the members of his per i i mitting them to commit brutal atrocities and other High crimes against the people of the United states and of its allies and particularly the Philippines and general Tomoyuki thereby violated the Laws of colonel Harry defense came to his feet with a motion that the charge be stricken on the ground it fails to state a Vio insofar As general Yamashita is con the objection was then the prosecution introduced a Bill of particulars citing 64 separate instances supporting the main charge a Bill of particulars is a de tailed statement of incidents making up a the instances alleged that civilians were tortured and murdered 144 american officers and enlisted prisoners of tortured and murdered 488 women and children and at least eight american civilian internees beaten and summarily his baggy eyes taking on a pronounced Oriental walked slowly to the Center of the raised dais before the commission and spoke a Short sentence in the interpreter repeated after Yamashita my plea is not the evidence continued to pile the trial of the first major Jap War criminal seemed to be an Avalanche of overwhelming damning the from the very beginning of the you  find a sucker to bet two pesos to 200 on Yamashita the defense gets the Bill of particulars in the left to right Harry defense counsel Yamashita Walter Masakatsu bending