ACTS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
PROCLAMATION
January 3, 1942
Any person who commits acts mentioned below will be put to death or
otherwise severely punished according to the provisions of Martial Law.
However, if the person who has committed such acts presents himself to the
authorities and confesses his guilt, he may be pardoned.
(1) Any person who rebels against the Japanese Forces.
(2) Any person who intentionally or falsely guides the Japanese
Forces, warships or transports.
(3) Any person who commits an act of espionage, collects or betrays
vital military secrets to the enemy, or who gives out such information to
the public.
(4) Any person who states false information or spreads wild rumors
of military importance.
(5) Any person who inflicts damage or destroys roads, waterways,
bridges, railroads, railway signs, apparatus for telegraph or telephone,
ships or the objects for the facilities of mail or who disturbs traffic or
communication in any other way.
(6) Any person who inflicts damage, destroys or burns houses,
warehouses, buildings, trains, automobiles, vehicles of any kind, ships,
arms, ammunition, provisions, clothing and any other objects of military
usage.
(7) Any person who damages or destroys or in any other way makes
useless all kinds of signs and notices necessary to the military
authorities.
(8) Any person who destroys, damages or conceals clothing,
provisions, fuels, and vehicles; harms, kills, or conceals livestock or any
other objects of military importance in order to avoid commandeering by the
authorities.
(9) Any person who steals arms, ammunition, provisions, clothing or
any other objects of military importance which are under the care of the
military authorities.
(10) Any person who, taking advantage of the war, commits looting,
robbery, murder, arson, sedition, or disturbs in any way the peace and order
of the land.
(11) Any person who pollutes drinking water by Poison or in any
other way.
(12) Any person who kills or inflicts injuries upon any Imperial
Japanese soldier, civilian employee of the Army and Navy, or who hinders the
execution of the duties of the above-mentioned persons.
(13) Any person who counterfeits military notes; refuses to accept
them or in any way hinders the free circulation of military notes by
slanderous or seditious utterances.
(14) Any person who snatches away, hides or helps to escape from
the authorities a person who has violated any provisions of Martial Law.
(15) Any person who refuses to obey any orders of military
necessity issued by the Japanese Forces.
(16) Any person who commits acts other than the above-mentioned
against the interests of the Japanese Forces.
(17) Any person who plans, suggests or assists in committing any of
the above-mentioned acts.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
IMPERIAL JAPANESE FORCES IN THE
PHILIPPINES