AFTERMATH OF BOER WAR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 26 October 1927, Page 9

AFTERMATH OF BOER WAR.

COLONEL LYNCH'S CASE. "KING EDWARD MEMOIRS" CRITICISED. (BT CABLE -TRISS ASSOCIATIOX— COJT&IQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN" AND NZ. CABU ASSOCIATION) (Received October 23th, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON; October 24. Colonel Arthur Lynch criticises Mr Sidney Lee's "King Edward Memoirs," referring to Colonel Lynch's Boer "War episodo as false and smeared over with hypocrisy ami cant. Ho says: "I was arrested, but, except that J was constrained technically, I was at complete liberty in Paris, and went to England to face trial and the death sentence rather than a smirch on my name." Colonel Lynch continues: "It is untrue that 1 petitioned King Edward lor clemency or restoration of civil rights or that Michael Davitt wrote to his Majesty or Cabinet. Of my own accord I forwarded the necessary papers but a bitter enemy in the Home Officeinfluenced the King not to sign a commutation of the death sentence. "The commutation was due to a message from Mr Roosevelt to the King. Then Lord Northcliffe obtained the restoration of civil rights. The trial was a violation of Lord Roberts' and Lord Kitchener's promise made at Yereoniging that there would be no prosecutions. "Furthermore, it was my right to oc tried in my birthplace—Australia. The fact that I won the Galway election was the real cause of the trial." [Col Arthur Lynch, M.P. for West Clare from 1909 to 1918. the physician author, was bom in Australia and was a Colonel of the Irish Brigade No. 11. on the Boer side during tho South African War. He was elected a member of the House of Commons for Galway in 1901. He was a Colonel in the .British Army, in June, 1918.]