3 Indonesian Airmen Shot For Treason
CANBERRA, This Day. Three Indonesian airmen stationed at Canberra were arrested and shot for treason in 1943. Secret Service investigators discovered that the three airmen were using a wireless transmitting set in their ’plane to communicate with the enemy. ' They had planned to fly out of Australia and surrender to the Japanese on an island north of Australia. The three Indonesians were considered loyal until they were denounced on the aerodrome by a companion just as the ’plane was ready to take off. Though for security reasons the incident was hushed up, it caused a sensation in Canberra. The three men were sent under armed guard to Melbourne. where a court-martial found them guilty of treason. They were sentenced to death and were executed in territories outside Australia. N.E.I. Army Denial. A Netherlands Indies Army statement denies that the three Indonesian airmen were executed as spies. The three men were convicted, not for disloyalty, but for conspiracy and desertion, and were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 20 years to life, adds the statement.
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1945, Page 3
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