SEEKING REPARATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 20 December 1919, Page 6

SEEKING REPARATION.

FATHER O’DONNELL'S CASE

HOT CRITICISM O? CHURCH ILL.

“INSULT ADDED TO INJURY.”

, LONDON, Doc. 2. Father O’Donnell, in a, letter to The Times, expressed his gratitude ft.' Mr Devlin, M.P., for bringing up his case in the House of Commons.

He added; “My position is entirely due to the blundering and the stupid system by which Mr Churchill anil his friends seek to govern Ireland. My arrest and detention were illegal and inhuman. My treatment in prison was entirely contrary to what was duo to me as a priest and an ofllcor of the

King. “The military authorities under Mr Churchill’s direct control tried to hush up the matter, and it v.as entirely duo to the better sense of justice prevailing in the Australian army that, at my own request, rny case was tried by court-martial. “Mr Churchill says that 1 am not entitled to reparation. I hope I am. 1 will try to got it, behoving that British justice is sufficiently pure at the fount to see that it is given to me.

“Mr Churchill but adds insult to injury when in Parliament be seeks to deny me justice and to place the blame on the A.I.F. authorities.”