ITALIAN KING’S PARDON
THE ELLISON’S CASE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 10. Reuter’s Florence correspondent states that the Court of Appeal dealing with the case of AVilliam Ellison reduced the sentence from five months to twenty-one days’ imprisonment am! a fine of 85 lire. Ellison is applying for the King’s pardon.—Reuter. (Received March 13, at 1 a.m.) Ellison has been released, the King's pardon having been granted him.— Reuter. [Ellison was sentenced at Florence to five months’ imprisonment and lined £ls on a charge of using offensive words about Signor Mussolini. When questioned in the House of Commons regarding the ease, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that Ellison had lodged an appeal. The British Consul was watching the case. He added that the time lor the intervention of the British Government had not arrived, if ever it would arrive.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 3
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138ITALIAN KING’S PARDON Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 3
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