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LABOUR REALISES A MISTAKE.
POWERS OF MILITARY COURTS IN IRELAND.
Judgment in an Important
Laws of Economies. not Changed.
Test Case.
Judgment was given in the At the annual general meeting Dublin Law Courts recently upon) of the Institution of Naval the important test case involving Architects & the Royal United the whole powers of the Military Services Insi ution, London, the Courts in Ireland..
Earl of Du.nam. the retiring)
• The judgment arose out of the president, was presented with an application made in the case of original picture by Gunard John Allen, of Bank Place, Tip- Gribble of the sinking of the perary, who was sentenced to German Fleet.
THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 1921.
MAN WHO SAVED US FROM DISASTER.
Late Lord Moulton's War Services.
Principal A..P. Laurie, Ediņ- burgh, writing to the Scotsman with regard to the death of Lord Moulton, states -----
Lord Moulton has passed away with little notice by the general public, who have never realised the vital part that be played in enabling us to win the war. death by the Military Court for Returning thanks, he Baid I remember well when in the being in possession of a revolver whilst the German Floet had autumn of 1914 the attention of and ammunition, and a document ceased to exist, the German was the Board of Trade was devoted dealing with the subject of mid-as treacherous as over, and would to the question of taking night fighting.
be to the last.
advantage of the opportunity The application was directed to The Duke of Northumberland to stimulato the chemical
i industries annul the proceedings of the was elected president.
in this country Military Court on the ground that In the course of his address he with a view to successful compe- they were illegal, beyond jurisdic-[referred to the depression in the tition with Germany after the tion, and that the tribunal had no shipbuilding trade, due to war a Committee was appointed, power to impose the capital sent-variety of causes--impoverished with Lord Haldane as Chairman ance for the offence with which condition of Central Europe, the and Lord Moulton as Vice-Cuiar- Allen was charged.
state of the foreign exhanges, mand. None of us realised at Judgment was delivered by the general dislocation of industry, that time the appalling condition Lord Chief-Justice, who was ac- "Thero is a very great ferment of unpreparedness, on the part of companied by Judges Gibson in the ranks of Labour.” he said, the War Office to meet the modern Gordon, Moore, and Samuels. "and it is one of the most pressing condition of warfare. We knew The Lord Chief-Justice said problems that we have before us, of our great explosive factories that though it was the duty of the Labour imagined that, as a result and munitions factories, and im- Court to protect the lives and of the war, the laws of economics agined that all was well in this | liberties of subjects, it was none had suddenly undergone a pro-direction.
the less their duty not to inter- found change."
Lord Moulton with charactoris-)
surrection.
B
fere with officers of the Crown "Labour imagined that capital tie energy, threw himself into the in taking steps which they he- and enterprise could be substitut. į problem of improving our chemi- lieved necessary to suppress in-ed by a new system, by which all cal manufactures, and his house the profits of industry could be at the West End became a small The application was dealt with distributed amongst the em-Governn.ent Department, run by under four heads:
ployees. The futility of control himself, for developing our che- First. Was there a state of war by Cyrument Departments has mical industries; but before! justifying the application of mar-been realised, and Labour is Christmas had arrived it waY tial law.*
realising the fallacy of the various evident that the situation, at any Second. What were the powers forms of nationalisation.
rate as far as high explosives of the Execu ive Government in "It is a subject of national were concerned, had dawned upon dealing with armnet insurrection. concern, however, that the lesson | the Clovernment, and Lord Moul- Third. Could a Military Court can only be learned at the expense ton was rapidly switched off on to act having regard to the fact that of much suffering caused by the question of high explosives, the Courts of Justice in the area widespread unemployment. Quickly he gathered round him were.open.
"Much of the unemployment an expert chemical stall, and in Fourth.--Could the military is due directly to strikes and the course of an extraordinarily impose sentence of death, having threats of strikes in the coal short time bad organised the new regard to the fact that the pro- mining industry, which is the manufacture of explosive through- visions of the Restoration of Or-basis of our whole industrial out the country, bad transformed der Act and the Firearms Act of i'e.
existing chemical works, and had 1920 imposed minor peunities for: "It is this that has driven away built new works which are mag- the same offence.
our foreign customers, and which nificent examples of the latest and has deprived us temporarily at finest construction in chemical least of our export trade.
plant. During the rapidly ex-
On all those points the Court found in favour of the Military administration.
I am glad to think that it is panding demand for munitions. The Lord Chief-Justice ex- now being realised by the miners whatever difficulties there might plained that under martial law themselves, and there are signs be about guns and shells the the Military Courts were not in of agreement being reached be-supply of high explosives never strictness Courts at all. The tween employer and employed failed, and every demand was met Court of King's Bench could nui on the principal that Labour There is probably no other' control the military anthorities shall share in the profits of the example so extraordinary of a on the question of any sentence industry. That is the only real man who, though originally train- imposed under matial law,
foundation on which a lastingled in mathematics and pure The Court, after giving full settlement can be obtained. science. had devoted his whole consideration to all the points, "If it can be recognised that life to practice in the Courts, of had come to the conclusion that labour shall be made a charge Law at Lord Moulton's advanced they had no jurisdiction to inter-on industry, we may look for-ago becoming suddenly responsi fere with the proceedings or ward with hope to operation, and able for the creation of a huge sentences of the Military Court, mutual interest between em-new industry and for dealing with consequently the application was ployers and employed which will practice questions, which were on refused.
remove the perils, social and a scale that might well have industrial confronting the nation appalled one of our great indus. 10-day." (Hear, hear.)
EX-KAISER'S DREAMS.
Babbling About His Old Plots. "Comparative Historical Tabulations from 1884 to the
BETTING PARTNERSHIPS HELD TO BE LEGAL.
Outbreak of War in 1914" is the Lady Club Member and her
title of the ex-Kaiser's new book, from which the Dutch Socialisti
seven private copie have been printed and presented only to personal friends relatives.
a ď
was
Losses on the Turf.
trial magnates. It was all s0 quietly done that the country and the Government never seem to owed to his efforts. have realised how much thay
The papers speak of his sleep- lessness. I well remember how much he suffered from insomnia
during the war under the tremen- dous strain, to which he was pur and how often the only way in An important decision relating which he could get sleep was by newspaper Het Folk publishes to partnership betting businesses being rushed through the country extracts of his reactionary
Mr. given by political views.
Justice in an open niotor car at some 40 McCardie last month in About
action brought by Messrs. Michael hours sleep under these condi- an miles an hour. After a couple of Jeffrey and Co., of Green-street, tions he would came back again W. C., against Miss E.
with renewed energy, prepared to Bamford, a member of The first part of the book de Empress Club, Doverstreet.
the work both day and night, scribes eventa in Germany,
There is no doubt that Lord They sought to recover £97 Moulton was a great man, who Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain. paid to Mise Bamford for bets did great work for his coun France, the United States, Japan won on horse races. Russia, Turkey, and the Balkan
try, and who saved us from His lordship pointed cut that disaster. States. This part is intended to plaintiffs would not have brought support the German official the action but for the fact that version. It is suggested that un- Miss Bamford, while keeping hier der Britain's leadership there had winnings, refused to pay her been plots to isolate Germany, and that the demands of Serbia Sho based her defence on the had nothing to do with the point that the cookmakers sued as partners, and she contended that
war,
losses.
GENERAL NEWS.
ETON BOYS FILMED AS FIRE FIGHTERS.
ton boys as fire fighters at Eton A film was taken recently of
Fire Station.
The second part contains a "review of things pertaining to ting business was either illegal or a partnership to carry on a bat- 1914." I:deals with the "mobilisa- impossible in law. tion of English banks in April
If the Court, said his lords' ip, 1914" and the "beginning of Eng-recognised a single proprietor of NO SUNDAY CINEMAS FOR ISLE lish mobilisation in June 1914."
OF MAN. The ex-Kaiser declares that good reason, in public policy, a betting business, he saw no
At Ramsey, Isle of Man, the Russian mobilisation began on why they should not recognise, as magistrates refused to grant any YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. German and Austrian mobilisa-ship.
June 15, but says nothing of the they had done, u betting partner-licences for Sunday cinemas. tion, and insists on the already well-known German version that claimed, with costs.
He gave judgment for the sum the Allied mobilisation made war uravoidable.
This document (says Het Volk)
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127 NATURALISED ALIENS. the Press, although there is no superfluous statement if we felt engaged, while the matches are A recent issus of the London objection to spreading bis ideas that the guarding of both in progress. The Surrey captain, Oazette contained the names of in friendly circles."
Hohenzollerns was carried out in P. G. H. Fander, a member of the 127 nilsas to whom verEifion For Of From this it would appear that the most efficient manner MCC team to Australia, naturalisation were granted dur the ex-Kaiser still considers | possible,
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