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THE AGE, Saturday 27 April 19853 Dunlop and his men revisit their J3a I till I ell-fire path' Return to the Railway 1 vT -iViCSSSm -ilp1' I fill 1 rm tw lj PUS) I rr i lit I I 11 I Lrf 'ltf iW-i l'- Nf i in. 1. 1.. i emJ fC-" I JV- CC I pf-'' fnAy 1' Frank Fry flies a 727 to earn his I rV Jl A "jL day ead. When he has time io rJU if 1 It V0 i I "4 -iSTr nyl- himself he just loops the loop.

Mr hnj I VlWOTV Fo. the 1983 aerobatic champion. I If I If frTTW has designed and built himself a I Jl I I .1 --OKf IsSoNl i 4 Loser 200 hp, 384 fcmh which I i Vp 'i-Tiim hewillfly in the Australian cham- I hhuJ I I I SslW" I pionshipsot Grpth this weekend. I I -'XlS Yesterday -Age photographer Jr I Vv 1 5 5 camera he fixed to the Laser's i'S "wiw Jr wing, hence these three-direction- I i I sei-portraits. mZts it 1 kilometre track that led to the work site.

Dunlop called the track, which was ankle deep in mud during the monsoon, the Via Dolorosa (the way of tears). The metaphor could apply to the whole PoW experience. It was also at Hintok that the worst brutality occurred. A Tas-manian sergeant named Mickey Hallam was subjected to a vicious and prolonged bashing when a member of his gang hid in the jungle to avoid work. A parade was called and all were forced to watch.

A comrade wrote: "As most went solemnly back to their tents, Mick was carried to hospital. Next day he died. He had been generous, a staunch friend to weak and strong, and his death cast an even darker shadow over all Now that the tour has concluded, it seems necessary to attempt to put at least some perspective on this aspect of prison camp life. It would be dishonest to pretend that a good number of the men on this tour are less than bitter, but most will admit that their treatment was largely a reflection of the way in which the Imperial Japanese Army treated its own. If it was a fact that the worst guards on the railway were Koreans, it was also a fact that the Koreans who were conscripted into the Japanese Army at the lowest levels were regularly humiliated and beaten by their superiors.

At least two members of the tour saw Japanese soldiers beaten to death by their own officers. Saturday Extra 3: Honor in the face of horror By MARTIN FLANAGAN BANGKOK. The return to the railway has ended; but what did "weary" Dunlop and his men find? They found much had changed. Incidents and faces eager for placement in the physical landscape had to be reprocessed and queried as the country failed to correspond to memory. Where these men hacked down bamboo and lit fires to discourage prowling tigers, there is now cleared ground devoted to the plough.

Even the river has changed, a dam having drastically lowered its water level. The moment when past and present fused with greatest poignancy occurred on Wednesday. The party had gone by bus to the Thai army beef cattle station 18 kilometres north of Nam Tok. A rock-strewn path from the edge of the cultivated plateau led down to the now defunct railway line in the river valley. Entrance to the track is via a Buddhist ashram, around which chickens cluck and dart The vegetation bordering the track has been singed by fire so that a view has been opened to the knuckle of hills on the otter side of the river.

On a moderately hot morning it is hard to see this path as the Death Railway. A kilometre down the track, however, one meets a symbol of inexplicable power: a large stone hillock cut in two like a loaf of bread. The largest cutting of the Thai-Burma Railway, it was known to the prisoners who cleared and excavated it with their hands as the "hammer and tap cutting" or "Hell fire The meaning of the moment was no doubt related to the fact that the work on Hell Fire Path was done from the Hintok camp. It was at Hintok that, in face of the combined onslaught of overwork and tropical illnesses, morale of Dunlop Force reached its lowest ebb. That Dunlop Force fared far better than other groups in the area was a credit to its medical officers, who not only worked around the clock to save lives but also enforced strict rules of camp hygiene.

(A party of several hundred English prisoners which arrived at Hintok at this time lost half its number in a matter of weeks.) But it was also at Hintok that the Australian medical officers were under the most severe strain. Sir Edward Dunlop speaks of the "agonising" responsibility of deciding which of those stricken with illness would have to work to meet the quota. Each day, those selected would totter out of the camp, some on sticks, most bootless, on the three- Jaraaiiese order investigation ed made under parliamentary privilege were taken exactly from the confidential volumes of the Costigan royal commission's final report. Mr Cain said that the NCA did not have a formal reference to investigate Essington Ltd. "All it has is some suggestion by Mr (Frank) Costigan, QC, (the former Royal Commissioner), that it ought to examine some aspects," he said.

It was not up to him to decide what priority or how seriously the NCA took the information. Mr Cain criticised Mr Kennett for breaching the confidentiality of the Costigan final report. He said Mr Costigan had warned of the dangers to people and investigations if people in the reports were publicly named. Asked if the Government would go ahead with the project without an NCA report, Mr Cain said: "I'll meet that if and when it arises." He also criticised three groups for trying to undermine the project. They were unsuccessful tenderers, people with competing projects and the political lobby "that wanted to knock everything," he said.

warranted close investigation over possible tax frauds, and that the company had sufficient overseas connections to provide an international money laundering service. On Thursday Mr Edwards, the chairman of Essington Ltd, denied allegations that his company was involved in tax frauds and illegal money movements. He said Mr Kennett's allegations were made for political ends. Yesterday Mr Kennett said that the Government should not sign a development agreement until the National Crime Authority had completed an investigation. The Government should ask the NCA to give priority to an investigation, he said.

The Premier, Mr Cain, said yesterday that the Government would decide if it would go ahead with the project without an NCA investigation report "if and when that question Mr Kennett claimed that it would be the height of irresponsibility to sign an agreement before an investigation was completed. Mr Kennett said that he was "90 to 95 per cent" certain that his allegations about Essington Limit Victoria project chief wants to know if allegations are true people or any such dirty people, and it is our policy not to have anything to do with them." he said. There had been a lot of misunderstanding in the Australian press which he hoped would be cleared up when the truth was known. Until then he would not speculate on what action his company would take until after it had received the views of its investigators. The State Opposition Leader, Mr Kennett, told State Parliament on Wednesday that Essington Ltd was named in confidential volumes of the Costigan report.

He said that the volumes said Essington A SAFER LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE New simulators are training a generation of watchkeepers. By SIMON HOLBERTON in Tokyo and JIU BAKER in Melbourne Kumagai Gumi, the Japanese construction company partnering Essington Ltd of Sydney, has engaged investigators to establish whether there is any truth in allegations surrounding the big Sydney property developer, a senior company executive said in Tokyo yesterday. A senior managing director of Kumagai, Mr Mo-too Otsuka, said the company had no way Of establishing truth itself because it bad been operating in Australia for only three years. "Now our company is seeking the right people to judge the situation," Mr Otsuka said. "We have engaged someone to advise us on the truth and substance of the claims." But he appeared to reaffirm Kumagai Gumi's support for principal of Essington, Mr Malcolm Edwards.

"Mr Edwards has been our business friend for the past two years and he himself is denying he allegations. It is very difficult for us to judge the allegations," he said. Kumagai Gumi is Japan's sixth biggest construction company, bigger in terms of foreign business. In Australian alone it has won contracts worth nearly $1000 million in the past few years. Recently a joint venture company, owned equally by Kumagai and Essington and known as EKG won a $400 million contract to build what will be the biggest structure in the southern hemisphere atop the museum station in Mr Otsuka said his company was "very unhappy" about the controversy in Australia and he denied strongly that Kumagai had any relations with the Mafia.

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The Queensland National Party yesterday closed ranks behind Sir Edward Lyons, chairman of the TAB and the Premier's main adviser, effectively leaving the Minister for Racing, Mr Russ Hinze, out in the cold. The National Party's powerful state management committee decided to leave it to Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen to resolve the future of his trusted friend, who is also a National Party trustee. The committee met after the TAB board called for Sir Edward's removal as chairman. Investigations showed that he had used TAB funds for personal punting and bad bet on credit, in clear contravention of TAB rules. Documents leaked to the media since the TAB board request, which only relate to Sir Edward's TAB punting, showed that he spent $702,570 betting in the last year, losing $201,092.

More than half the betting money, or $317,968, came from TAB credits. The Queensland Attorney-General, Mr Harper, last night issued a statement saying Sir Edward had broken TAB credit betting rules at his local TAB agency at Holland Park and other agencies at Surfers Paradise and Rockhampton. However, there was no civil or criminal liability on the Sir Edward's behalf, Mr Harper -said. The committee decision yesterday cleared the way for Sir Joh to implement his veiled suggestion of disbanding the TAB board and take control of the Racing Development Fund from Mr Hinze. Sir Joh could bring it under his own Treasury Department when Cabinet meets on the Lyons affair next Tuesday.

Edward's resignation, Mr Hinze said he would request Cabinet to ask the Director of Public Prosecution to begin an inquiry under the criminal code. Mr Harper's statement last night said a Justice Department inquiry had cleared Sir Edward of civil and criminal liability. Mr Harper said: "I confirm that there is no evidence of either civil or criminal liability on the part of Sir Edward. "However, there have been breaches of the rules of the Totalisator Administration Board by Sir Edward Lyons as they relate to betting with that board. "The rule relating to credit betting with the TAB has been broken in respect of the Holland Park, Surfers Paradise and Rockhampton agencies of the TAB.

"Whilst there is a lack of clarity about the rule relating to the crediting of uncleared cheques to accounts in the case where the cheques are used to supplement money in an account, the board and its auditors have been critical of the chairman's use of his tel-phone betting account "Whilst such conduct is clearly in breach of the rules of the TAB, I reiterate that there is no such evidence of either civil or criminal liability on the part of Sir Edward Lyons." Although Mr Hinze appears to have been dumped by the National Party hierarchy in his battle to get rid of Sir Edward from the TAB, he has received support from backbenchers and the racing industry. The president of the Queensland Racehorse Owners Association, Mr Neil Barber, said any plan by the Premier to link the TAB with the Treasury would be a disaster and owners would revolt if the TAB was taken out of the hands of racing people. Such a move would clear Sir Edward of further investigation and also lessen Mr Hinze 's control of Queensland racing. The 40-member state management committee met for four hours yesterday at Bjelke-Peter-sen House, the National Party headquarters (commonly called The Bunker). The party president.

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