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By ALBERT RAVENHOLT United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Sept. 20. — The Japanese converted the “Bridge House” in Shanghai from a comfortable apartment house into a prison hell hole of filth, starvation, torture and death, it was disclosed here, OWI Correspondent Ed Rohrbough said the fate of many prisoners will never be known because Japanese, there kept no records of deaths, An American, who must remain anonymous, suspected of being: an agent of the U. 8. government, survived four months of calculated cruelty. He said he never heard of anyone living there longer than six months. He sald the Japanese stripped him, burned his body with lighted cigarettes, and thrust them up his nostrils when he refused to answer questions. Shocked on Nerves

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mouth, he reported. “The "American said the Japanese poured water from a tea kettle down the nostrils of prisoners until the victims were bloated. Occasion ally the guards added pepper or kerosene to the water, he reported. This torture, he said, was alternated with long, tiring exercises. Prisoners suffering from malnutrition or starvation were forced to sit cross-legged in the Japanese manner an entire day. Hang By Thumbs A B-24 pilot, Lt. Harold Effier, was captured and brought to the Bridge House for questioning. The Japanese asked him when the Americans would ‘land on the China coast, Effler told them their questions were “funny.” The Japanese hung him by his thumbs. There is nothing frightening

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