CIVIL SERVICE SCANDAL

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 9

CIVIL SERVICE SCANDAL

“REPORT WILL BE READ WITH RELIEF” INTERESTING PRESS COMMENT MR. MACDONALD AND ZINOVIEFF LETTER By Telegraph.—Press association. Copyright. London, February 28. ■ “The Times,” commenting on the Gregory case, says: “The report will be read with relief. Its broad effect is that no trace whatever can be found, even bv probing the unlikeliest chatter, uf any general weakness in the observance "of the high traditions of the Civil Service. There is no question of any instance of the private use of official information ” The editorial proceeds to condemn most strongly the conduct disclosed, and adds: “It would not perhaps have been irrelevant if the board had added that so persistent a state of affairs might have been expected to come to the notice of Gregory’s superiors at the Foreign Office.” The “Daily Telegraph” draws attention to the meagreness of the salary of the Assistant ‘UnderSecretary, from £l2OO to £l5OO a year. Mr. J. R. MacDonald, in an interview in the “Dailv Herald,” says that the report makes a clear statement that the Zinovieff letter had been for some time in the hands of the Foreign Office, and “that I did not handle, it was untrue, as I said it was.” —“limes.

DEALINGS OF MAXSE London, February 27. The report of the Board of Inquiry stated that Maxse’s dealing was at first confined to an occasional ten per cent, share of Gregory’s transactions, but with a legacy" of’ a few hundreds in 1926 be began transactions in French and Belgian francs, resulting in a net loss of £3200.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”