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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12771, 24 May 1912, Page 5

(Press Asbd.— By Telegraph. — Copyright.) (Received May 2<J, 8.10 o.ni.) LONDON, May 23. Mi* Ramsay MacDpnaM asked for' Tom Mann's release or, treatment as a first-class prisoner, on the grounds that Mann had merely expressed a general opinion as daily expressed by, the churches. Mr Mac Donald also urged that Malatesta, who was a few days ago ordered to be deported, be not expelled. Sir Rufus Isaacs emphasised that the publication of the letter ui'ging soldiers not to shoot strikers, was intended' to have consequences, and was not a case for nominal punishment, m the absence of an expression of regret or promise uot to repeat the offence. LONDON, May 15. Several of the London papers de-: nounce the law that resulted m the sentencing of Tom Mann. # The Daily Chronicle says that the occurrence is tobe regretted and that the country would welcome a revision of the law so that a -like conviction could be prevented m the future. The Labor organ, the Daily' Herald, v protests against the malignant application of , an obsolete- law.