TRADING WITH KRUPPS.
SCOTTISH FIRM GUILTY.
FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.
London, June 18.
In the case against Robert Hetherington (not Irvingdale as previously cabled) and Henry Wilson, partners in the Glasgow firm of Jacks and Company, charged with sending iron ore to Germany, a majority of the jury found the prisoners guilty, with a recommendation for leniency, owing to the unprecedented circumstances, and the violent derangement of business owing to the war.
Summing up in the case, Lord Strathclyde said nothing short of a Royal license would entitle a Britisher to attempt to supply goods to people in Germany. Jacks, until August 10, had never intended that the ore should go to Germany. They found through their German house they could effect an arrangement with the consumers, and their action had resulted in the Germans securing the iron ore.
Each of the accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and fined £2000. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15949, 21 June 1915, Page 8
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