Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Wednesday 23 January 1946, page 1


COMMANDO HELPED

ENEMY CAUSE

LONDON, Monday. - After a court-martial Trooper John Eric Wilson 24-year-old commando, was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for voluntarily helping the enemy by joining the British Free Corps, of which he ls stated to have bean in complete control at one

time.

Leonard Banning, 37-year-old British schoolteacher, who. it is stated, taught in Berlin before the war, pleaded noi guilty in Old Bailey to an indictment on seven counts charging him with assisting tho enemy by making propaganda records and broadcasting.

Tho prosecution stated that Bunning at the outbreak of war tried to return to Britain, but failed and was-imprisoned. After his release he agreed to broadcast for tho Germans.