Australians to give evidence at Jap trials
Fourteen Australians, including former prisoners of war and military personnel, were selected to travel to Tokyo to give evidence before the International War Crimes Tribunal. Witnesses included Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, survivor of the Banka Island massacre, and survivors of the Thailand–Burma Railway and the Sandakan–Ranau death march, who would testify about Japanese wartime atrocities.
AUSTRALIANS TO GIVE EVIDENCE AT JAP TRIALS
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Fourteen Australians and former prisoners of war will sail on the *Kanimbla* about October 14 to give evidence before the International War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo.
Another member of the party will be flown from Borneo to Tokyo.
Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, formerly of the 2nd 13th Australian General Hospital and the sole survivor of the Banka Island massacre, now serving at Heidelberg Military Hospital, will be included.
Two medical officers, Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. Dunlop, of Victoria, and Major B. A. Hunt, of Western Australia, will give evidence of atrocities committed against Australian and Allied prisoners of war while working on the Thailand–Burma Railway.
Warrant Officer W. H. Stickpewich, of Wickham, and Private K. Botterill, of Katoomba, two of the three survivors of the Sandakan–Ranau death march in Borneo, will also give evidence.