CHARGE OF ABDUCTION.
e A BUREAU SCANDAL. By Telegraph—Press Associatlon-<3opyrigh.t London, November 20. Mr. Charming Arnold, editor of the "Burma Critic," was last month sentenced to a year's imprisonment for defamation of the District Magistrate at Mergui, whom he accused of wrongly acquitting a British officer charged with the abduction of a native girl.' . "Truth" states that the offioer is an Australian, named H. B. M'Cormack, D.5.0., who is now a rubber planter at Victoria Point. Mr. Arnold, who is a son of the late Sir Edwin Arnold, alleged that Mr. Andrew, the magistrate at Mergui, was a friend of M'Cormack, and that the whole inquiry. Was irregular. The magistrate at Mergui decided that the oharges were trumped up by M'Cormack's enemies, his real motives being purely philanthropic. "Truth" demands that the Marquis of Crewe, Secretary for India, should immediately revise the sentence. Mr. Arnold's language was too unrestrained, says the paper, but he rendered a public service.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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158CHARGE OF ABDUCTION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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