CANTEEN SCANDALS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 7

CANTEEN SCANDALS.

WHITAKER AND MINTO FOUND GUILTY.'

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST B'AROX

SAVE AND SELE

(By' Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 27.

Lieutenant-Colonel Whitaker and Archibald Minto (Lipton's Ltd.) were found guilty; in connexion with the canteen scandals.

Whitaker, in his defence, said that no favour was shown to Lipton's. The only money received by. him was in compensation for a visit made by him to Crete. He read a, letter from Colonel Fiennes, representing a firm of Maidstone brewers, offering him a free trip, and asking him to use his influence with a colonel in Crcto on behalf of thoir beer contracts.

Mr Justice Darling, in summing up, said it was regrettable that Colonel Fiennes, was now Baron Saye and whose ancestor put. his hand to tho Magna Charta, should have written such a letter.

Whitaker, in broken accents, said he was unaware that-ho was doing wrong. At - the instance of the gentleman named, he did it because ho was in need of- money, having two eons at Sandhurst. Ho'threw himself on the judge's mercy.

Mr. Justice Darling, animadverting on tho letter, stornly commented on the decadence shown by tho representative of a great'family in cadging orders for- beer. Whitaker was sentenced : to six months' imprisonment. The other niilitai-y. accused • wero bound over. - Minto and Cansfield were fined £500 each, Craig £100, and Laing, Owon, Pcgly and Lynch £50 each. Swain was bound over.

Whitaker made a second appeal for clemency, but the judge ordered his removal.