Second Edition. Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 18, 21 May 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Australia

ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION ' CHARGES DISMISSED.

/ United Phess Association. (Received 11.35 a.m.) Sydney, May 21. A court-martial is being held on Captain Lionel Bahhingtou Ravenscroft on three charges of, three counts each, of stealing and receiving a camera. chronometer, and typewriter, the property of persons unknown. Ravens-| croft was appointed Provost-marshal at Rabaul, entailing control of a large amount of Germans’ property. Tim articles were discovered in Ravenscroft’s possession upon returning to Sydney. The Court dismissed the charges regarding the typewriter and chronometer. Ravenscroft, in his defence, stated that the strictest inquiry was made for the owner of the camera, but he failed to find him, and he was under the belief that he or any other officer or man could take any property they found in a private house if the f owner was not to be found. The Court’s verdict was “not guilty on all charges” Melbourne, May 21. , In the Senate, Mr Pearce, replying to the questions regarding the alleged misappropriation of goods at Rabaul, said the'private \) ho made the charge had. since signed an admission that the charges were untrue.. The editor of the newspaper which published the charges' stated he had no evidence in support of the rebuttal of them. Mr Pearce added that the charges were of a weak character and the man did not appear to realise the seriousness of his •statements. The sole punishment he received was a reprimand. GENERAL BRIOQES’ DEATH AVENGED. (Received 2.15 p.m.) Melbourne, May 21. Sir lan Hamilton lias cabled to the Governor-General as follows: “General Bridges died on the passage to Alexandria. The whole force mourns its irreparable loss, which was avenged yesterday in a brilliant action by our troops, who.inflicted a loss of seven thousand on the enemy at a cost of less than five hundred to themselves.”