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MOROTAI, BORNEO 1945-11-29. THE TRIALS OF SOME JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN ATROCITIES WERE CONDUCTED AT MOROTAI. THE PRISONERS HAD BEEN BROUGHT FROM OUTLYING ISLANDS IN THE AREA. INSIDE THE COURT THE PROSECUTION TABLE WAS PLACED ON THE LEFT AND BECAUSE OF SHORTAGE OF SPACE WAS ALSO OCCUPIED BY MEMBERS OF THE PRESS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, MR W HUDSON, WAR CORRESPONDENT FROM THE SYDNEY SUN, MR E L THORNTON, WAR CORRESPONDENT FROM THE MELBOURNE ARGUS, EX WING COMMANDER W. L. DOBSON WHO WROTE FOR VARIOUS AUSTRALIAN AND OVERSEAS AVIATION JOURNALS, VX80889 LIEUTENANT COLONEL L J BYRNE, PROSECUTOR, QX59954 SERGEANT K CAREY, SHORTHAND WRITER, QX37190 SERGEANT D. WALLACE, SHORTHAND WRITER AND CAPTAIN F G THOMAS, INTERPRETER. (PHOTOGRAPHER STAFF SERGEANT R. L. STEWART)
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