REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIA
ANOTHER PROSECUTION. (Rec. December 6, 9 p.m.) Sydney, December 6. Tinder the War Precautions Act cxSenator Rae) PreßS representative of the No-Conscription Committee, was charged with verbally making a false statement of a kind likely to affect tho judgment of the electors. Tho statement in question challenged tho Ministerial claim that the number of volunteers had fallen short of the reinforcement requirements. Tho Magistrate dismissed the case, holding that tho defendant believed tho statement to be truo, though it was false and likely to affect the judgment of tho electors.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 5
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95REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 5
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