TRIAL OF MAJOR COUSENS
Received Thursday, 9.30 p.m. SYDXEY, Oct. 3. A warra tfibute to the leadershi]) of Afajor Oharles Hughes Couscns at B'unlca prisoner-of-war camp, was paid by an American witness at the Central Court today. "When Alajor Cousens was in control at Bunlca we had striet discipline and leadership and we all worked together as one fighting unit," said Lieutenant-Coinmander George Herbert Ilenshaw, United States Navy. Witness said that when he first arrived atl Bunka the Japanese told him that they! had higli hopes of festoring peace; through the broadcasts of prisoners. | Stuart Tomlinson Simpson, dentist,| stated in evidence that at Tavov camp.j Burma, in 1942, Major Cousens hadi interviewed the Japanese district com-j mander in an attempt to save the livesi of eight prisoners who had been sen-h tenced to death for escaping. i '
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1946, Page 5
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