LONDON: Trials of Japanese war criminals, which have been `proceeding in Tokyo, Singapore and throughout South-East Asia, during the last few months` are criticised by an `ex-prisoner of war from Siam` in this morning`s [Jan 5] `Times`. Declaring that those concerned with the building of the Burma-Siam Railway are mostly being tried on evidence obtained from sworn `Atrocity Forms` signed by returning ex-prisoners of war, the writer adds that very little publicity is given to these trials in the Home Press. He affirms that considerable uneasiness is felt by many ex-prisoners of war concerning some verdicts that have already been published. `It seems to us that the humbler the rank of a Japanese the more severe is his punishment,` the letter continues.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Chandipiri,] Addressing a gathering of women who had assembled at the courtyard of the house where he is residing at Chandipiri Mr. Gandhi on Saturday [Jan 4] said that women should depend on God and on their own strength and not on others....-Dawn Delhi