THE BREWER CASE
OFFICIAL REQUEST FOR REVISION (British Official Wireless.) * • Rugby, January 30. The Foreign Secretary, in the House of Commons to-day, said instructions are being sent to the British Ambassador in Lisbon to request the Portuguese Government to order a revision of the case of Mr. Brewer, second officer of the steamer Clan Lamont, who after arrest on a charge of the theft of £1 was imprisoned for nine months while awaiting trial in Portuguese West Africa, and was then condemned to 360 days’ imprisonment and an £lB fine, or another 90 days’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 109, 1 February 1929, Page 13
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95THE BREWER CASE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 109, 1 February 1929, Page 13
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