WAR REGULATIONS ACT.
# AN ALLEGED BREACH. irsr.ss association tblbgs.au.) WELLINGTON, July 29. John Harvey Blair, James Albert Birchficld, Richard Henry Webb, Herbert Richard Bryan, William O'Reilly, and Leslie Raymond McDowell were charged to-day with printing and publishing a book, Karl Marx and the Struggle of the Masses, which, it was alleged, expresses seditious intention and advises and encourages lawlessness and violence, contrary to regulation 4 of the War Regulations Act. Birchfield was further charged with obtaining £7 0s 9d from the Public Works Department by falsely representing that he was injured by a truck at the Waitaki hydro-electric works. Charles Morris Brooks and the defendant Bryan were charged with having an allegedly seditious book in their possession for sale or distribution. When the police asked for a remand, defendants asked for bail. Webb said that the police had 2500 copies of the book in their possession, and he asked for copies to be given to all of the defendants to enable them to prepare their case. An assurance was given by the police that this would be done. A remand was agreed to and bail granted.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20921, 31 July 1933, Page 5
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