TREASON TRIALS.
SECOND READING OF BILL. (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. The Treason Bill, which is to make procedure in the treason trials similar to that in murder trials, came before the House of Lords for the second reading. The Earl of Munster, moving the second reading, said the Bill made no change in the law, but as cases of treason might arise in the near future, it was important that the law should be amended to remove all the formality of the old Treason Acts so that cases could be tried without the necessity of complying with obsolete requirements. Lord Strabolgi said that he agreed with the amendments, as they would enable the courts to deal more expeditiously with cases as those of William Joyce and Baillie-Stewart. He asked if Colonel Rocke, who. in Italy had committed offences similar to those of Joyce iii Germany was to he brought to trial. Viscount Maugham said the trial of peers by peers was unsatisfactory and costly, and in reply to the Lord Chancellor, Sir John Simon, lie said the question of altering the trial by peers would be considered.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 195, 31 May 1945, Page 5
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