DE LASZLO'S OFFENCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 10

DE LASZLO'S OFFENCE

— fr FBESH DECISION A GAINST THE COURT PAINTER. The Home Office Advisory Committee has decided not to interfere wilh the Home Secretary's order for tho internment of Philip de Laszlo, tho painter. His naturalisation certificate wae granted on August 29, 1914, and ho took tho oath of allegiance on September 2, 1911. It will be remembered' that last September tho Home Secretary ordered de Laszlo's internment in Brixton Prison under the Defence of the lienlin Regulations. Hβ appealed against tho order in October, but the Advisory Committee decided against him, and promised that his case should bo considered this month. He waa again called before the committee, and after hewing hie statement it decided that his internment should be continued. He will therefore remain in internment—presumably to the end of the war. He has, however, been -removed from Brixlon to the camp at Cornwnllis Road, Islington, wher's he occupies the two rooms which Karon von Bissing occupied until liis release a few weeks ago to go to a nursing home. The charges against do I.aszlo were of a very grave character. It. was alleged that lie !iad given aid and comfort to tho enemy by giving money to an Austrian officer prisoner of war nnmed Arp»l Horn, who escaned from Doningtnn Hall in ■July! miV. and was arrested at Charing Cross Hotel. London, two or three days later; that he'had unlawfully nnde use of a neutral Embassy mail bag for the purpose of sending his own correspondence to Austria; and that he 'hadforwaidcd money to his brother, who. ia in Hungary.