COUSENS' TREASON TRIAL
Received Monday, 7.50 p.m. BYDX'EY, August 26. After the broadcast from Radio Tokio, .\[ajor Charles Jlughes Cousens walked i'roni his studios vvitli tears 111 his cyes, areording to the evidcnce oi lliroshi Xiino, a fornier Tokio radio announcer, in the Ceutral Court todav." "('ouseus said he would rather lie a janitor aud mop llie floor (hau read tliis damuable coiiimeiitary, " added witness. t When the fifth day oi' Ihe hearing oi the treason cliarge against Major Cous ens opened today, M r. .Shand, I'or the del'enee, tohi the Court that if Ihe Crown did not call lJeut. ( 'omniander Henshaw, of the 1'nit.ed States lntelligence, the defence would bring li i 111 to Sydney. Xiino, who took the Christian natli, said that. on tlie day Major Cousens was introduced, he was threatened by Major' TsuneisliL, who said that he was t.o broadcast by order of tlie Japanese Army. A year later wituess began broadcast'ing in English and received tuition I'roni Major Cousens. II e did iiuf regai-'d .Major Cousens as a Iraitor.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 August 1946, Page 5
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