Lutheran Released
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AN unexpected announcement was made in Canberra on September 8 when the Minister in Charge of Territories said that Rev. Henry Foege (a Lutheran missionary who was sentenced by Judge Wanliss in Rabaul last June to two years’ gaol for having “unlawfully deprived a native of his personal freedom”) will be released from gaol on October 1.
The Minister gave no explanation, be yond saying that the Administrator of New Guinea (Brigadier-General W. R. McNicoll), exercising powers vested in him by the Judiciary Ordinance, had remitted the balance of Mr. Foege’s sentence.
An appeal against the sentence, made on behalf of Mr. Foege, was dismissed by the High Court in Sydney in August.