MEMORIES REVIVED
EPISODE OF BOER WAR
COLONEL LYNCH EXPLAINS
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 24th October. Colonel Arthur Lynch criticises Sir Sidney; Lee's "Life of Edward V 11.," referring to the Boer War episode as false, and smeared over -with hypocrisy and cant. Colonel Lynch says: "The author v says that I was arrested, but, except in a Btrained technical sense, I was at complete liberty in Paris, and went to England to face a trial and death sentence Tather than smirch . my name.'' Colonel Lynch continues: "It is untrue that I petitioned King Edward for clemency; or the restoration of my civil rights, or that Michael Davitt wrote to His Majesty or the Cabinet. Of my own account I forwarded the necessary papers, but a bitter enemy in the Home -O£6ce influenced the King not to sign the commutation of the death sentence, ihe commutation was due to a message from the late Mr. EooseV n/r- 1*0 KiUj?- Tllell Lortl Northchffe obtained the restoration of my civil rights. The trial was a violation of Lord Roberts's and Lord Kitchener's promise, made at "Vereeniging, that there would be no prosecutions. Futhermore, it was my right to be tried in my birthplace, Australia. The fact that I won the Galway election was the real caiise; of the trial."
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 101, 26 October 1927, Page 9
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216MEMORIES REVIVED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 101, 26 October 1927, Page 9
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