COMPENSATION UNLIKELY
Treatment of Ex=New Zealand School Teacher in Japan
QUESTIONS IN COMMONS
ASSURANCES FOR FUTURE
(United Press Aieoclatlon—By Electric Tilegraph Copyright) Received 12 noon to-day. LONDON, Feb. 20.
In the House of Commons, answering a question by Mr. J. C. Wilmot, (Lab) regarding compensation for the New Zealand .schoolteacher Air. Bickerton, who was imprisoned in Japan, Sir John Simon said a reply to representations by the Government contained satisfactory assurances regarding, the future treatment of British subjects arrested in Japan. Sir John Simon did not consider a claim for compensation could usually be made. Mr. AVilmot: Can nothing more be done in view of the fact that Bickerton was arrested for no other crime than harbouring dangerous thoughts and subjected to indignity and some ill-treatment.
“Bickerton was arrested on a charge of breach of the Jajjane.se law,” replied Sir John Simon. “Whether right or wrong, I have not the least idea. Regarding his ill-treatment, it would bo most difficult to carry a claim for compensation any further.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 21 February 1935, Page 5
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