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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13914, 15 November 1919, Page 3

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Stockholm and the other leading cities of Sweden become infested with more or less avowed agents of foreign Powers, of Foreign revolutionary factions, of Bolshevist leaders, etc., " L hat- lawlessness has supplanted the authority of the courts • and of the .'overmn'ent of the • Kingdom. The Swedish police were always afraid to make arrests, owing to. then' being entirely in the dark as to whether or not the object of their attention is not some influential secret envoy of a- for- '. ei<m government enjoying the goodwill of their pro-German King and ] Ouecn. The plenipotentiaries of Lenin, of Trotskv. and of the ignoble Bela i Knn also' of Enver and Talaat Pasha, have literally swarmed at Stockholm. Bolshevist, gold has flowed like water, mainly in the direction of the demimonde; and so far as an impartial observer could gather, the various secret agents have been all engaged in betray inf their various employers and m .squandering the latter's money. ■it least a couple of dozen murders have taken place in and around Stockholm during the last four weeks, the I victims in a number of instances being I Bolshevist agents who had been put to death either by Bolshevist Velim<rcrichts on the ground of fraud and treachery or by Yehmgertchts composed of Muscovite, German, and Lithuanian monarchists, mainly men of noble birth. Yielding to pressure of the Entente Legations, the Swedish Government has at length moved with a view to bringing to justice the reputed perpetrators of some of these murders, among them a. Cossack Colonel known as Mohammed Beck HadjeLaehe. who was entrusted with the execution of the decrees of death against those who had betrayed the Bolshevist cause His victims included Colonel 4rdaschef, Captain Kalve and a, Swedish lieutenant of the name of Eng-stro-m. Others arrested are. the members of a so-called "International League for the Re-establishment of the Russian Monarchy," who are charged, with inflicting Vehmgericht justice on several Bolshevik agents in Sweden. The victims included an American citizen of the name of Legros. Among their alleged executioners now behind the hars is another American, a newspaper man of the name of Reginald Lehrs. . , , . But these Vehmgerichts are not wholly incidental to great- wars, iney operate sometimes in the piping days or peace. The late King Edward, who was always averse to the publicity of social scandals whenever it could be avoided on the ground that it served to contaminate the popular mind, to furnish a bad example to the masses and "to excite their indignation against the classes, was a great advocate of referring everything possible to courts of honor. ..... A notable instance of this kind was that of Dr William Collins, who before, becoming the most fashionable ladies physician in London had been SurgeonMajor of the Royal Horse Guards and had retained his'commission on the reserve of that celebrated regiment. One dav it'-' was discovered that he had forged the name of a/ fellow officer, Captain Charles Selwyn, members of Parliament for Cambridge,-"to a promissory note for 10,000d015... .Instead of calling in the police. Captain Selwyn consulted a couple of his-fellow, officers, and also the Colonel-in-Chief of the' regiment, the late King Edward, then Prince of Wales. At the :heirapparent's' suggestion, his Colonel Eir Nigel Kingscote, a . main., renowned for. his chivalry and .lofty sense of honor; Lord "Walsingham, High Steward of the University of Cambridge.'.and Major Atherly, of the Royal Horse Guards, were drawn into council, and formed a court of honor (from which the Prince himself held aloof). the idea being to. save the regiment from the stigma of having one of the officers on its reserve list prosecuted for felony by a comrade of the same corps. - ;; Dr Collins appeared before the ,tribunaV thus composed, and was ..-informed' that for the sake of the regiment there would be no criminal prosecution, provided he. severed . his c'pnneotion with the army, resigned from his clubs, paid the amount of tbe\riote, which had been taken' 1 up by Captain

Sehvvn and quitted Europe. Moreover," ho was required to sign a, document confessing his guilt. Years afterward, when he had returned to England, in defiance of his pledges, he became involved in criminal proceedings in connection with the death of a. patient that led to the revelation ot his forgerv of Captain Selwyn's name. The best known of these English lynch courts is the tribunal formed, bv the triumvirate of the Stewards of the Jockey Club of England. Todav thev consist of Lord Lonsdale, the Earl of" Durham, and of Lord Peurhvn. It is a great mistake to imagine, that their .justice is restricted to occurrences on the turf. It also deals with violations of the unwritten laws of honor and some years before the war a well-known sportsman who had married into ono of the oldest houses of- the aristocracy and with the running of whoso horse no fault could be found, was "warned off Newmarket Heath" by the stewards of the Jockey Club for certain dishonorable conduct, unconnected with racing, but ,_ which also led to the announcement in the Official Gazette, by the Lord Chamberlain, in the name of the Sovereign, i that his presentation at court had I been cancelled and that he was barred. I therefrom. There is no more drastic punishment than that contained in a, decree of being "warned off Newmarket Heath" by the stewards of the Jockey Club. "Tt means ostracism of the most cruel form, both at home and abroad. To any man with the. slightest sense of honor, death is preferable, and where there, is no recourse to selfdestruction, expatriation and a change of name are the only alternative.