THEOSOPHY OR VICE.

Grey River Argus, 27 May 1922, Page 5

THEOSOPHY OR VICE.

ATTACK ON MBS BESANT. FOB SHIELDING LEADI3EATEU. I k and N Cable Associ;.I’ i Received May 26 at 10 p.m.) [ Mr Buddington, the K.C... replying to I Airs Besant, reviews the whole position | regarding the allegations against Leadbeater. He says she must meet the ! real question as to how can she, :> professed priestess of truth and inspired leader of morals, shield by her personal influence a colleague, Leadbeater, who lias admitted teaching youth a certain x m-o. After dcali ng with evidence when the <asc was before the A’adras Cour 1 in 1906. ami traversing her previous lei:er. Air I’iddington concludes:- —Airs Besant's chief colleagues here stated ns lat-e as 1913 in open Court (hat he still believed in teaching a destestablo vice to which he had prcviouslv laugh them. An English judge for this declared him an immoral person. Leadbeater is still alleged to be what an English judge said of him.“ Mrs Besant has shielded Leadbeate* from enquiry, and finally Leadbeater says nothing. POLICE INVESTIGATIONS. (Recciex’d May 26, 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 26. Aiding under Ministerial instructions, the Inspector-General of Police has ordered (lie fullest inquiries to be made into allegations concerning the persons connected with the Theosophical »So- < icly. Several box s have been taken tu th** police headquarters, and interrogi; I ed.