GENERAL DYER’S CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12102, 12 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL DYER’S CASE.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received July 13, 9 a.m London, Jnly 9

A Whitepaper is issued giving the defence of'General Dyer. He points out that he knew the military dangbr of the position and the cloud in Afghanistan and also realised that the gathering in Jalliau Wallaghbagh was“not fortuitous but assembled with express intent to challenge • Government authority and defy him to fire upon them. It was in fact a rebel army. Ho was conscious that a great offensive movement was gathering and to sit still and await complete mobilisation' would havf> been fatal He could not regard the Jallian Wallaghbagb assembly as a mere political gathering. He looked on Amritsar as the storm centre of the rebellion. He also knew that attempts were being made- to seducehis troops. £lf he had shirked the challenge there would have infallibly followed a general mob movement inside and outside Amritsar which would bave.jdestrnyed the European popnlation and involved in its ruin, the law-abiding Indian population, leading to similar results throughout the Puujaub. General Dyer contends that his object was right, that the force used was not excessive and achieved the desired effect, also no less force woflld-have achieved the effect.