PARNELL'S ACCUSERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 790, 13 April 1910, Page 5

PARNELL'S ACCUSERS.

MR. ASQUITH'S CENSURE. ; USE OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. By Telegrarh—Press Aieooitttion-ttißTrlirht. London, April 11. Apropos the recent admission by Sir Robert Anderson that he, while at the, Homo Office, was tho author of "The Times's" "Parnellism and Crimo"articles in 1887, several Irish members put questions on the subject in the House of Commons. \ Mr. Asquith admitted that the articles had been written when Sir Robert Anderson: was in the Crown's employment, and added that he could not use language sufficiently strong to condemn Sir Robert's breach of official duty in supplying "The Times": with confidential document*. However, the affair was so remote that he must decline to reopen the subject. ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST QUEEN'S JUBILEE. SIE ROBERT ANDERSON'S REPLY. j ... - ■•■■ A TYPIST'S EEROB. : ' (Reo. April 13, 0.50 a.m.) London, April 12. Sir' Robert Anderson, in' a letter to "The Times," explains that, but for a typisfs. accidental omission of the (Words "month. of May," his confession as to the authorship of .the' "Parnellism and Crime" >. articles would have been re-' stricted, as he intended, to. "The Times's" articles of May, 1887. These were based on newspaper reports. /His aim : was to defeat a plot for a dynamite explosion at Westminster Abbey on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. [On June 21, 1887; Queen Victoria attended tho-Jubilee service at Westminster Abbey. 'The first, of: the "Parnellism and Crime" articles appeared in "The Times" in March, 1887, the famous forged lotter appeared in April, a third series of articles in June.]