INSULT TO NAVY
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SOCIALIST ADMIRAL ALLEGED TO BE RESPON SIBLE FOR PAMPHLET LEGAL ADYICE BEING TAKEN
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Rec. Oct. 27, 7.55 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday.. The "News-Chronicle" states that i cortain Vice-Admiral is taking legal ipinion whether Rear-Admiral K. C. Jewar, who figured in the Royal Oak mirt martial in 1928, can be proiecuted for sedition uttered in a •amphlet. Rear-Admiral Dewar is the Sbcialist andidate for the Portsmouth seat, vhere the 'Conservative, Sir Bertram Mle, had to cancel an election meetng owing to organised hooliganism. The pamphlet in question is headsd "Nation Faces Bankers" .It picures the ex-Kaiser and Mr. Montague bi tnan, governor of the Bank of ..'and, and is captioned "The BriLa Navy at Jutland in 1916 beat he Kaiser: at Invergordon in 1931 it >ea: the Ilonourable Montague Nornar." Sir Bertram Falle said that the ■pirt of Bolshevism was abroad in h'eat Britain's premier port, and I'eedom of speech was abolished. The Conservative agent will ask he Admiralty after the election if j kar-Admiral Dewar is entitled to ■ontinue drawing his £950 retired pay £ his action is disloyal. | Rear-Admiral Dewar admits that f he leaflet is in bad taste, but ridi- j ;ules the idea of disloyalty or insult o the Navy in which he has spent ! 'is life. ' j
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 October 1931, Page 3
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217INSULT TO NAVY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 October 1931, Page 3
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