DALLIMORE MISSION

Northern Advocate, 20 December 1932, Page 5

DALLIMORE MISSION

USE OF TOWN . I?ALL,

REPRIMAND FOR MR CUTTEN.

(Special to “Northern Advocate.”)

AUCKLAND, This’ Day.

Following a hearing of the deputa tion of which M(r E. C. Gotten, S.M., senior stipendiary magistrate, of Auckland, was chief spokesman, the City Council last Thursday reversed its previous decision not to allow the use of the Town Hall to Mr A. H. Dallimore, evangelist, for his faithhealing services. Today the joint medical, professional and clerical committe of inquiry, which recently investigated the faithhealing mission and reported in extremely adverse terms, has issued a statement expressing deep concern that anyone holding the responsible office of senior magistrate should have made a public demonstration to commend Mr Dallimore’s mission. The committee says it was forced after careful comprehensive survey to declare the mission tube a danger to health, sanity and morale Or the community. , “Wo submit that in his presentation of the ease to the council,” says the committee, “Mr Cutten, by flouting and misrepresenting the considered and unanimous opinion of the repI'csentativc committee, including university professors, medical practitioners and ministers of religion, which was also unanimously endorsed by the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations, has forgotten the great traditions of his office. The situation is unprecedented in the City of Auckland and we are reluctantly compelled in the interests of truth and public dignity to make this protest.”

GERMAN RENEGADE

GAS ATTACK BETRAYED

YPRES STRUGGLE RECALLED

TEN YEARS’ GAOL TERM

(Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, December IS. The German ex-soldier, Jager, known as “the man who lost the war,’’ has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude for betraying the first German gas attack.

The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” stated earlier this month that 17 years after the first German gas attack at Yprcs a German ex-sol-dier named Jager was on trial for treason at Leipzig for betraying the attack. The prosecution was based on enemy evidence in an article by General Ferry, the French Commander in the section, published in 1930, in which it was alleged that Jager gave the position of the gas batteries and accused the French generals of failure to protect their troops. A representative of the Ministry of Defence was pressing for Jager’s conviction, and insisted that the French took measures to reduce their losses, also mitigating the effect of the attack, Jager denied desertion and betrayal. He claimed that he strayed into the enemy trenches and that the French deduced the imminence of the attack from a wadding pad he carried as part of liia equipment.