Colonel William Holmes and officers of Australian Army at German wireless station Bita Paka in New Guinea in 1914 / Picture: Supplied Source: News Corp Australia
THE ABC will today claim that Australian troops in World War I took part in a "mass execution" of German troops following the battle of Bita Paka in New Guinea.
Australian soldiers on the road to the German wireless station at Bita Paka in 1914 / Picture: Supplied Source: News Corp Australia
The broadcaster's Radio National Breakfast program has obtained a single tape recording of a witness to the alleged slaughter, which the ABC says "appears to confirm the rumours" of prisoner executions.
"On this day, on September 11, in 1914, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed near the town of Rabaul — then the capital of German New Guinea — and captured a German telegraph station," the Radio National report begins.
"Officially, six Australians, one German soldier and 30 native police died in that battle. The Australians won, but there have long been rumours of the mistreatment and execution of prisoners. Recently, an account by an eyewitness to that battle has been found — and it appears to confirm the rumours."
The ABC reports the tape recording was made in the early 1960s by a village elder identified as "Bob".
The tape was apparently discovered recently, packed away in a box in Queensland.
The Rabaul force sets sail on troop ship Berrima Augusy 1914 with mission to capture German wireless station at Bita Paka in New Guinea / Picture: Supplied Source: News Limited
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