CANADIANS FOR TRIAL
COLLABORATION WITH JAPS COMRADES ILL-TREATED (10 a.m.) OTTAWA, March 5. Allegations that they co-opera.ted wi.th .the Japanese by improper fraternisation and also ill-treated fellow prisoners of war at Oeyama prison camp in Japan after .the fall of Hongkong will be preferred at a courtmar.tial at Winnipeg of Company Ser-geant-major Marcus Charles Tugby, of the Canadian Army, and Corporal John Hugh Harvey, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Tugby will be tried by a Canadian court-martial on 19 charges of collaboration and also securing more .than his share of the Red Cross parcels and depriving his fellow prisoners of Red Cross comforts and assaulting and striking fellow prisoners.
Harvey will appear before a British court-martial to answer charges ranging from manslaughter of a Canadian prisoner to ill-treatment of fellow prisoners, taking more .than his share of Red Cross parcels, and depriving fellow prisoners of comforts.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 7
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