EX-LIEUTENANT WOODS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 10

EX-LIEUTENANT WOODS.

—9 ■ i • CLAIM FOR £75,000. Ex-Lieutenant Woods, formerly of tho Grenadier Guards, is bringing against the mombers of tho Army Council, who called for liis resignation after tho reports inrulo by (Jolonel uavondish and Major GathorneHardy, an action for £75,000 and £2600 special damages. 'J'lio defendants are: Mr. Hnldane, Goneral Sir. Neville Lyttelton, General Sir Charles Douglas, Colonel Haddon, Mr. T. It. Buchanan, M.P., and Sir Edward Ward. ■ Mr. Woods also asks for a declaration that tho defendants had no authority to deprive him of his position as an officer in the Array. it has been stated that the insertion in the Army (Annual). Bill of a clauso transferring tho powers of the Secretary of State, the/ Commander-in-Chief, and tho AdjutantGeneral to tho Army Council, and indemnifying the members of tho Council for action taken in. the intorim since their appointment, is intended to non-suit Lieutenant Woods, whoso chief ground of action is that •tho Army Council acted* ultra vires. '^ rc5S Association (says tho "Military Mail ) was authorised to publish a complete aemal of this, and to state that it is wholly untrue that the Army (Annual) Bill prejudices or in any way affects the caso of Lieutonant Woods, orthat... there is any clause which indemnities the members of tho Army Council for any action which they have taken with regard to him. The powers transferred from the Secretary of State have no relation to the case of : Lieutenant AYoods, or any .other cases of tho kind, but are only certain minor administrative powers. '