CANTEEN SCANDALS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8699, 4 April 1914, Page 5

CANTEEN SCANDALS

DEFENDANTS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. 8y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, April 2. During the hearing of the Army canteen case, counsel for the defence argued that there was no evidence of special services to contractors. Liptons had paid the ~. after masters lor voluntary services T rendered apart from their military duties. All the defendants were coinur'tted for trial. [The trial excited great interest in London. There were eighteen defendants in all, the military officers being; Hon. Lieut, and Quartermaster William James Armstrong, Norfolk Regiment; Sergt.-Major George Petohy Bennett, West Riding Regiment; Hon. Lieut, and Quartermaster James Burns, Bth Hussars; Hon. Lieut, and Quartermaster Thomas Henry Johnson, Royal Lancaster Regiment; Hon. Lieut, and Quartermaster William Kelly, Leinster Regiment; Staff-Segt. Thomas Millward, Army Service Corps; Hon. Captain and Quartermaster George Edward Mitchell, Devon Regiment; Hon. Captain and Quartermaster Charles Quarell, Suffolk Regiment; Lieut.-Colonel Whittaker (retired), Yorkshire Light Infantry. The members of the firm of Lipton, Ltd., concerned are:—John Cransfield, general manager and a director; Archibald Minto, formerly head of military department; James Craig, was general manager of the military department in Ireland; Daniel Lynch, manager of tho canteen department for Ireland; Andrew Laing, military manager of. the Aldershot department; Frederick William Owen, an inspector in connection, with the Salisbury branch of the ' military department; Edward Arthur Pegley, formerly an inspector of the military in the Colchester district; Alfred Swain, indoor shorthand clerk of military department. The charge was that in February, 1903, and on other occasions, they conspired that money should be corruptly given as an inducement to favour Lipton’s contracts.]