THE WRAFS CLEARED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5

THE WRAFS CLEARED.

"CONTEMPTIBLE" STORY.

LONDON, Dec. 8. The report of the House of Lords Committee on the Douglas-Peanant case is a uaost drastio document It scathingly emphasises the finding' that the charges of immorajivy hi women's camps were unfounded, and also finds that Miss Douglas-Pennant's chaiges of intrigue were unfounded. The committee's report pillories Miss Douglas-Pennant as a "woman much impressed with her own importance, very reckless in imputations upon others, arid unable to work with others.'* The story on which she built, her charges, which was " the substratum for a vast superstructure of allegations of immorality, connivance, and encouragement," is contemptible, and she deserves ihe gravest censure." Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant, after beingromoyed from\her position as commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force, madu charges that her dismissal had been secured by means of intrigue in high places, and also asserted that flagrant immorility existed in the camps of the Wrafa, A committee was set up by tho House of Lordß to investigate these charges, and after hearing evidence foumi that tho chaigej were without foundation.