FATHER O'DONNELL'S CASE

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 139, 10 December 1919, Page 6

FATHER O'DONNELL'S CASE

DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT.

(AUSTKALIAS - NEW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received December 10, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, 9th December

In the House of Commons, Mr. Devlin, in moving the adjournment to discuss the O'Donnell case said he took that action in consequence of the intolerable outrage that had been perpetrated. He demanded the dismissal of all responsible for the insult to a brave officer of the Australian army. He asked Mr. Churchill to express condemnation of the arrest and the treatment of Father O'Donnell, and to. state what reparation would be offered for the insult and the humiliation, and that expenses would be paid. He understood the cost to Father O'Donnell waa £1000

Mr. Churchill replied that he could not he expected to express regret when neither he nor his subordinate had acted wrongfully.

_ Mr. Churchill declared thatO'DonneU's treatment throughout was strictly in accordance with the military regulations, Mr. Devlin interjected: "Who supplied the tissue of lies?" Mr. Churchill said he had every reason to suppose that the statements were furnished in good faith as being strictly accurate^ He deplored the attempt to make a trivial episode the cause of a quarrel between Britaiu and Australia.

Forty Labour members and some Liberals supported Mr. Devlin.