SHOULD A REPORTER TELL?
Budget Leakage Alleged in South Africa By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Cape Town, March 24. Tlie question, "Should a reporter tell?” was revived at a magisterial inquiry into an alleged leakage of Budget secrets. George Heard. Parliamentary correspondent of the "Rand Daily Mail,” Johannesburg, forecast the exact terms of the Budget a week before it was released. The subpena did not disclose tlie subject of the charge, and Heard’s counsel chara'cterised the proceedings as a foraging expedition, and contended that the British Official Secrets Act did not apply to South Africa. Heard refused to be sworn, whereupon he was sentenced to eight days’ imprisonment. Pending appeal, the sentence is not being enforced.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page 8
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114SHOULD A REPORTER TELL? Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page 8
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