ARMY CANTEEN CASE.

Mataura Ensign, 9 April 1914, Page 5

ARMY CANTEEN CASE.

SURRENDER AND REMAND. BT E6ECTRIC .TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT. I'ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Keoe,ived April 9, 9.30 a.m. LOXDOX, April 8, Archibald Mi-nto, one (if the defendants in t'he Army eanteeiii. scandal, •surrendered on h.is return' to-England and wasjramanded until June 12. All the defendants have been committed for trial. The trial excited l great interest in London. There woro ]o defendants i» all, the military officer:-, being: Hon.. LieuieiKMiit and Quartermaster William James Armstrong, JCorfolk Regime i:>t; Sergeant-Maicr George Pet••fty .Bpnnft't, ! < "West. Riding Regiment :■ Hon. Lieiitertitnt. and 'Quar'term'iister Burns, fith'Hussars;< HonLieu'tvmant a'n'd . Quartermaster Thomas Henry Johnson, Royal Lancaster Re-'gi-men't.; Hon. Lieutenant and Quarteriniaftter Williami Kelly, Leins'ter liegimenii; Staff-Sergeant Thomas Miiilvvard, Aiuny Service "Corps; £fo:i : Csntain. a«d Quartermaster George Edward Mitchell, Devon ''Regiment';'Hon. Captain and Quartermaster Cnarles Quurell. •Sriffdk Regiment; - Li |eu ten ant-Colonel .Whi'ttaker (retired), Yorkshire Lio-ht Infanitry. The* members of the firm"ci? Litton, Ltd., concerned are:—J-ofiin Oa>nsifield, ; general manager and director; Arc-hilja'ld Minto, fo'raiw.iiv head* of •miilitarv department; J'ames Craig, was general manager of the 1 military dooartnieiiij in Ireland; Daniel Lyni:h, manager of the canteen department for llr-e'i'andl; Andrew Lain*, military .'manager of th? Aklersho.t de'tortment; Frederick AVill.ia.rn Owen, an inspector in <-.c;nnei;>tioii with the Salisbury Ibrane'h of the military departmentEcll,vai ; d Arthur Pegley. former'v an- iwnpecitc.r of the military department itv the Colchester district; Affiled Swain, indoor shorthand cleric cif military department. The. charge was that in February, 1903, ar.il' on o'.'her occasions'thev conepired that., money should be corruptly given as an- inducement to -favor Lip ton's contracts. ■ ~