A NAVAL CADET'S CASE.
BITTER COMPLAINT. MR. M'KENNA EXPRESSES UNQUALIFIED REGRET. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright LONDON, 7th April. The case of the naval cadet, George Archer-Shee, expelled from the Royal Naval College at Osborne in July last on a charge of stealing a postal note for a few shillings, of which he was afterwards proved to bo innocent, was again before Parliament to-day. Mr. Archer-She©, fatfier of the lad, is claiming £10,000 as damages from the Government in consequence of his son's expulsion. Ho is bitterly complaining that the newspapers and the Admiralty have not expressed regret at the charges made.' | Mr. M'Kenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, in alluding to the matter in the House expressed his unqualified regret, and said the Government had finally agreed to Lord Mersey (formerly Sir John Bigham, a Judge of the Admiralty Division of the Higli Court), fixing compensation at the amount of the law costs. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Leader 6f tlie Labour Party, protested against a sitting being devoted to Mr. ArcherShee. Ux. O'Grady, Labour member for Leeds, was called to order for terming the debate "a damned scandal."'
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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188A NAVAL CADET'S CASE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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