SUMMONS SERVED

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1932, Page 6

SUMMONS SERVED

ON NEW GUARD’S LEADER. ACTION BY LANG GOVERNMENT. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 14. Colonel Eric Campbell, leader of the New Guard, was to-night served with summons at the instance of the Lang Government, charging him with using insulting words in the course of his speech. Speaking at Sydney on Monday night, in reference to the petition to His (Majesty the King for the dissolution of tile New South Wales Assembly Colonelj_ Campbell stated : "The people of New~South Waits will not permit Mr Lang to open the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We, in our generation, are lor ever dishonoured if we allow Mr Lang to open the bridge, and we of the New Guard tell him now that he wid not be given that honour Let us see that somebody of quality, if possible some Prince of Royal blood, opens it on behalf of the people of this State." Referring *to the petition, -Colonel Campbell said: “If it is. not granted, then I will put before you, for adoption, other means quite lawful, and appreciated by constitutional lawyers of high standing, but, believe me, very, very effective.’’ CAMPBELL “MERELY AMUSED.’’ SURPRISING REVELATIONS HINTED AT. SYDNEY, January 14. Detectives visited Campbell’s home and served the summons, action being taken under Section 8a of the Vagrancy Act, 1902, which legislates against dangerous and riotous statements. Campbell appears in court to-morrow. The maximum fine for this offence, providing the charge is proved, is £5, and the person may, in addition, be bound over to be of good behaviour for twelve month, or, * failing such bond, being entered into, a person may be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. This sudden action is the culmination to the Government’s attention to Campbell’s speeches. Ministers conferred during the last two days with the Crown Law officers and police officials.. Interviewed after the summons had been served, the leader of the New Guard said “I am just amused. Of course my defence will bring some facts before ■th -mbl :, c that should be hardly amus-

GRAVER THAN ANTICIPATED. *CiTV NOW IN STATE OF TERROR. SHANGHAI, January 14. Japanese riots are graver than at first cabled. In addition to razing the newspaper, rioters, numbering over a thousand, set fire to the Kuomintang headquarters*. The city is now in a state of terror. Japanese marines landed and are maintaining order. Traffic on the Peiping-Mukden railway is at a complete standstill, apart from troop movements. e*