With Sedition
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NG Man Charged With Sedition
A 21-year-old former P-NG Co-operatives Officer, Brian Leonard Cooper, in a Madang court on December 5 was re manded to December 16 on a charge of seditious utterances.
The allegations were that in Madang last September he had told natives that if they rebelled against Australia the Russians would come and help them. He had allegedly said that the natives should go and seize the Europeans.
Cooper, a Sydney University graduate, was arrested in Syd ney and flown to Madang under escort after extradition pro ceedings.
The charge, an unusual one, created a great deal of interest in Australia and Papua-New Guinea.