THE "GREEN RAY" CASE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 6

THE "GREEN RAY" CASE

PUBLISHERS SENTENCED TO | IMPRISONMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association Dunedin, July 2-1., At the Police Court Thomas Padraio Cummins and Albert James O'Ryan were charged with publishing in a monthly publication, called the "Green Bay," :i seditions utterance, which utterance was seditious in that it was caused lo IjG published liy tho said Cummins and O'Ryan with intention to incite disaffection against the Government of the United Kingdom, and to encourage the commission in the . United Kingdom of an offence prejudicial to the public iafety in respect of the present war. to wit. the crime of treason, by levying war against His Majesty, contrary to the War Regu-, lations. Mr. B. .T. Dolnn, of Napier, appeared for both defendants, who pleaded not sailty. After a lengthy hearing Mr. H. A. Yoiii's. S.M.. said'that in lookins tliroujrh the pases it appeared to him that on every \me there wns a seditious utterance'. He wns convinced that the. aim nl' lh» iiuhUcalion wns 1 to assist in every wnv possible the establishment of a rejmli'ic in Ireland. It was a most serious matter to encourage the people of Ireland to levy war gainst n< for tho purunse of the establishment of a republic in Ireland. • ... IHWaits. lioth of whom are of military nge. were sentenced to eleven mr-'-t'is' hard labour. In reply to the accuseds counsel, the. MnTislrit-'e snitl l-ii.was prepared to state a case for appeal.