BRITISH NAVY
DISMISSAL OF 21 MEN LABOUR SEEKS FULLER TRIAL FIRST LORD’S APPEAL (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.25 p.m.) London, November 24. Replying to Labour's demand in the House of Commons that the 24 men dismissed from the Navy following the Invergorden trouble should have a fuller trial, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, explained that the dismissals were not due to participation in the Invergordon incident, but to subsequent action subversive to discipline. He added that the Navy realised that to-day it no longer occupied the very high position in the heart of the British public that it held in past centuries, but it was the earnest desire of every officer and man to regain that esteem as soon as possible. It would be regained more quickly if the House of Commons and the country would leave the Navy alone to deal with its own domestic affairs. (Cheers.)
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Southland Times, Issue 21560, 25 November 1931, Page 7
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