INTERNATIONAL: The Rules

To U.S. marines and construction workers captured at Wake Island last December, the Japanese gave printed instructions. The rules, exactly as typed by the Japs:

1. The prisoners disobeying the following orders will be punished with immediate death.

(a) Those disobeying orders and instructions.

(b) Those showing a motion of antagonism and raising sign of opposition.

(c) Those disordering the regulations by individualism, egoism, thinking only about yourself, rushing for your goods.

(d) Those talking without permission and raising loud voices.

(e) Those walking and moving without orders.

(f) Those carrying unnecessary baggage in embarking.

(g) Those resisting mutually.

(h) Those touching boats materials, wires, electric lights,...

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