AN EXPELLED CADET.
DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.
LABOUR PARTY IN PROTEST.
By Telegraph—l'ress Association—Copyriebt. (Rec. April 3, 1.2 a.m.) London, April 7. The case of the naval cadet, Georgo Archer-Slice, expelled from the Royal Naval College at Osborno in July last oil the charge of stealing a postal note for a few shillings, of wliieh ho was afterwards proved to be innocent, was again before Parliament to-day. Mr. Archer-Sliee, father of the. lad, is claiming £10,000 as damages from tho Government in consequenco of his son's expulsion. Ho is bitterly complaining that the newspapers and the Admiralty have not expressed regret at tho charges made. Mr. M'Konna, First Lord of tho Admiralty, in alluding to tho matter in the House, expressed liis unqualified regret, and said tho Government had finally agreed to Lord Mersey fixing compensation at tho amount of tho law costs. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labour party, protested against a sitting being devoted, to Mr. ArcherSliee. Mr, O'Grady, Labour member for Leeds, was called to order for terming the-debate "a damned scandal."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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175AN EXPELLED CADET. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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