TO STAND TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 9

TO STAND TRIAL

WELSH NATIONALISTS

FIRE AT R.A.F. CAMP

(Received September 17, 12.30 p.m.);

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 -vvnen Professor Lewis, the Rev. Lewis Valentine, and D. J. Williams, a school teacher, who are prominent Welsh Nationalists, were 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 nifehtwatchman 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-acknow-ledging' their responsibility and emphasising the futility of efforts throughout Wales to dissuade the Government in erecting an institution which endangered Welsh culture and tradition.