CARDINAL MORAN AND SAMOA
A Royal Commission Requested
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Sydney, Jan 28 Tbe Evangelical Council has resolved to ask the Governor General to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the grave charges made by Oardwal Moran on a public occasion against the character of His Majesty's subjects in a sphere beyond ordinary British jurisdiction, to wit Samoa. The grounds of the request are that the honor and credit of the Empire demand that the charges, shsll be searchingly and fearlessly invest!. I gated with avu w to bringing the authors of the crimes to justice, if proved to have been perpetrated or if found false, freeing the British officers and Protestant missionaries from the stigma, which the Cardinal sought to affix on them, and the British nation. . It is pointed out af the . Cardinal refuses toSnpply *&* alleged proof, which SSld[enable the aggrieved! parties to
put the law in motion in the ordinary way, there is no other way of making inquiry than by a specially appointed Boyal commission.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1903, Page 3
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172CARDINAL MORAN AND SAMOA Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1903, Page 3
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