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wholly untrue, and therefore the book story to be untrue, the bulk of which story had with an unimportant modification been admitted by the Governor here Johnson

Alber:

on the 25th

of

(14) after this Dr Eitel could not plead justification without compromising the Governor, whose retraction of the material charge made it possible for him to deny the truth of statements which he had made on the

after?

to deny Governor's authority, N... Note that the guarded language of denial in one of Dr Eitel's two letters of the 28th of November.

(15) that up to the date of the hot truce compromise he acted under the Governor's instructions throughout. (16) that the compromise included a letter from the Governor to Mr Hayllar (which we have not got) and telegram from the Governor to the S. of S. (supposed that of the 25th of November) see pap & CL besides 87 Eitel's letter on which alone it ostensibly rests

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28. In brief Dr Eitel's defence amounts to this

that he was

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that

Hu

not only authorised, but ordered, to shew the papers to Mr Johnson and to explain them to him his explanations were those of Governor himself, subject to a possible inaccuracy of no material importance statements in good faith, believing them to be true and that it was his duty to the Governor to make

that the Governor at first

Theer

that he made the

approved of what he had done but afterwards retracted the most material statement, which left Dr Eitel no alternative than to admit that the statements were untrue

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Dr Eitel's very circumstantial defence requires to be circumstantially met, very bad te Governor meets it only in a general way. He cannot notice all Dr Eitel's

Dr

Eitel was only

inaccuracies to shew the papers and was to refer enquirers to the Governor for details. His statements were unauthorised

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