DISLOYAL SPEECHES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 9

DISLOYAL SPEECHES

MOTION TO EXPEL MAHON CARRIED BY LARGE MAJORITY -*0 'By Teleiraph—PrsiisAmocUtlon—CooyrlgM Melbourne, November 12. In the House of Representatives, Mr. .. Hughes, in a speech/ declared that Mr. • Mahon was doing his utmost to fan the • ' - flame between England and Ireland and • help. the disintegration of the Empire. -He covered 1 the honoured name of tlia Empire with the ! foulest slander, and . cruelly iusulted .humanity and the over- / . whelming ■ bulk of his fellow-citizens. l.tr.'Mahon's attack was made deliberatelr; it was part of £ world-wide conspir- : acv that had becomo: apparent since tho . war. A heated debate followed, tho Labour- : ..ites charging Mr. Hughes with/attempt- . ine to stir up sectarianism. The motion to expel Mr. Mahon. was , carried bv: 34 votes to 17. It" was a strictly party division.—Pre3s '. ' Assn." : 1 MALONE TO BE TRIED IN LONDON ■. SINN FEINERS. IMPLICATED IN GERMAN. PLOT. London/November 11. 1 . ITia Hon. Edward Short (Secretary of ' State for the Homo Department), speak.ine in tho House of Commons, said that Colonel Mnlono had been arrested in Dublin under tho Defence of the Realm •' ■ Act in consequence-of a speech he had Inade in the Albert Hall, and would bo tried in a London Police Court. Mr. Lloyd Gnorue feaid that there was no confirmation of- Colonel Malone's reported statement that four million roubles-'had; been -raised in. Russia for tlio Sinn Foin.'Tjut tho Government was ■" keeping in olose watch to intercept the ' transmission of money from Russia. The Government would shortly publish doou- • mints found' in tha possession of Sinn Feinere. • establishing their implication In a German plot.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.