COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
Welsh Nationalists AIR FORCE STATION FIRE London, September 17. The erection of the Air Force training camp at Penrhos was cited as an immoral violation of the rights of the Welsh nation when Professor Lewis, the Rev. Lewis Valentine, and D. J. Williams, school teacher, who are prominent Welsh Nationalists, w’ere committed for trial on charges of malicious damage and also with maliciously setting fire to buildings which are the property of His Majesty. Evidence was given that two men overcame the nightwatchman and released him after the fire had started, and that the three accused arrived at Pwllheli police station an hour later and handed in a joint letter acknowledging their responsibility and emphasising the futility of efforts throughout Wales to dissuade the Government iii erecting an institution which endangered Welsh culture and tradition.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 303, 18 September 1936, Page 9
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138COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 303, 18 September 1936, Page 9
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