ROYAL MEMOIRS

Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5

ROYAL MEMOIRS

KR SIDNEY LEE’S BOSK DO Ell WAR' EPISODE CRITICISED. Proa* Asiociatiua—Bj Telegraph -Copyright LONDON, October i’L Mr Arthur Lynch mticises_ Sidney Lee's ‘ King Edward's Memoirs ’ for relcrnng to his Doer \\ nr episode ns false and smeared over with hypocrisy and cant. ‘LLeo says I was arrested, but, except htraincdly and technically, I was at complete liberty in Paris, and wont to England to face trial and a death sentence rather than smirch immune. It is untrue that I petitioned Kins Edward for _ clemency or the restoration of civil rights, or that Michael Davitt wrote to LI is Majesty or the Cabinet. Of my own accord L forwarded tbo necessary papers, but a bitter enemy in the LJomc Office inllncncod the King not to sign the commutation ot the death sentence. The commutation was due to a message from President Roosevelt to the Kuig. Then Lord Northcliffo obtained the restoration of my civil rights. The trial was a violation of the promises o< Lords Roberts and Kitchener made at Verocniging that there would ho no prosecutions. Furthermore, it was my rio-lit to be tried in my birthplace, Australia. The fact that I won the Galway election was the real cause ol the trial.”