He Defied The Japs
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THERE was an interesting item in the evidence given last month in United States, at the trial for treason, etc., of the American-born woman known, for her broadcasts during the war, as “Tokio Rose.” It was stated that the Japs put very great pressure upon certain Euro pean prisoners-of-war to “persuade” them to engage in pro-Jap propaganda; and that one man who consistently re fused and defied them was “a Mr. Wil liams, an official from the Gilbert Islands.”
When the Japs swooped on the Gil berts in December, 1941, Mr. H. C. R.
F. Williams, then a cadet in the British Colonial Service, was Administrative Offi cer at Butaribari, and he was taken prisoner and apparently removed to Japan. He was born in 1916, so he then was only 25 years old. He returned to the G and E Colony after the war; and is at present absent on furlough.