AN EDITOR IN TROUBLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 75, 21 November 1912, Page 5

AN EDITOR IN TROUBLE.

ALLEGED ABDUCTION, London, November 20. (Received 9.50 a.m.) With regard to the sentence of : year’s imprisonment on Arnold, oditoi of the Burmah Critic, last month fo; alleged libel, the Truth states that th officer concerned was :in Australian H. B. McCormick, who holds a Dir tinguished Service Order but is non a rubber planter at Victoria Point McCormick admits having paid the girl’s mother thirty rupees, and having adopted the gild, who was twelve years of ago, hoping to cure her of ; disease. She afterwards lived at hi bungalow for three months. Mr Andrew, the Magistrate, at Mer gui decided that the charges of abdne tion and rape were trumped up b McCormick’s enemies, and that hi; real motives were philanthropic. Channing Arnold, who is Edwin Ar nold’s son, alleged that Andrew wa; a friend of McCormick, and the whole enquiry was irregular. Truth demands that Lord Crewe should immediately revise the sou tonce. It says Arnold’s languagi had been too unrestrained, but he had rendered the public a service.