OFFENDERS IN JAVA
TRIAL BY DUTCH COURTS (Rec. 10 p.m.) BATAVIA, Jan. 3. Military courts instituted by the supreme Allied commander in Southeast Asia to try all persons other than those subject <o British military law for offences against the Allied Military Administration will be Dutch, because the Netherlands is the sovereign Power in the East Indies and no British court can legally be set up to try certain specified offences. Dutch courts will form an integral, part of the Allied Military Administration, and one or more members may be Indonesians. All cases of sentences of death will be reviewed by the supreme Allied commander. Sentences exceeding two years’ imprisonment will be reviewed •by the com-mander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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