It was decided that I (M.L. Webber) should go with the first party to Tamarkan taking one of the stools and then decide on the best method for my brother (D.H. Webber) to carry out the much more difficult task of bringing the remainder of the set and the bulky batteries. Code messages were arranged.

The day after arrival at Tamarkan an officers’ party started coming daily by lorry from Kanburi – Their job was to take building bamboo from Tamarkan to Kanburi. The party was in charge of Capt Briggs, a representative of Major Andrews. It was decided that if the batteries could be got to Tamarkan they would be packed with hollow bamboos and taken to Kanburi by this party. Capt Gordon Shute (A & SH) was able to say that although parties were always searched at Tamarkan single officers accompanied by a sentry were not. The Australian administration arranged for Capt. Skinner & I to return to Chungkai and we were able to bring the batteries in a pack to Tamarkan from where they were despatched in hollow bamboos to Kanburi. The final party from Chungkai arrived in Kanburi without having to go through Tamarkan and D.H. Webber was able to bring the remains of the set in a second stool. The transformer baked in a loaf of bread & the earphone magnets in a wooden shoe, the earphone covers were fixed inside a water bottle.

The set & batteries were now complete in Kanburi.

M.L.Webber (Capt)

D.H.Webber (Lt)

APPENDIX EIGHT:

From War Crimes Trial of Lieutenant Ino[h]

Takeo 1947. National Archives (TNA), WO235/1052

CHARGE SHEET

The Accused : -

Ships Master ODAKE Bunji

Lieut. INO Takeo

of the Imperial Japanese Forces

attached to 4 . . . [?] (New designation 14 Wireless Squadron)

1st Charge

COMMITTING A WAR CRIME

In that

on the high seas between the 11th June 1944 and 16th Aug 1944 on a voyage from Singapore to Moji (Japan) aboard the S.S. “ASAKA MARU”, the accused ODAKE Bunju as ships master of the aforesaid “ASAKA MARU”, and the accused Lieut. INO Takeo, as officer in charge of a P.O.W. draft consisting of 750 British P.O.W.s, while responsible for the well-being of the said prisoners, were, in violation of the laws and usages of war, together concerned in the ill-treatment of the said prisoners of war, contributing to the death of some and causing physical and mental suffering to many others of said prisoners of war.

2ND charge

Lieut. INO

Takeo

COMMITING A WAR CRIME

in that he

on the high seas between the 16th August 1944 and 31st August 1944 on a voyage from Kiirun (Formosa) to Moji (Japan) aboard the S.S. “HAKUSAN MARU”, as officer in charge of a P.O.W. draft consisting of approximately 750 British P.O.W.s., while responsible for the well-being of the said prisoners, was, in violation of the laws and usages of war, concerned in the ill-treatment of the said prisoners of war, contributing to the death of some and causing physical and mental suffering to many others of said prisoners of war.