OFFICERS' LANDING IN MUFTI.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13455, 29 April 1914, Page 5

OFFICERS' LANDING IN MUFTI.

EXPLANATION BY MR. ASQUITH

(Received April 28, 11.25 p.m.)

London, April 28

Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the House of Commons, explained that the reason for ordering naval officers in Ulster to land in plain clothes .was in order to avoid creating unnecessary alarm and irrita--tion.

Sir Edward Carson, amid mocking cries of "Hats off to the King," asked Mr. Churchill whether lie had attempted to attain a similar object by his Bradford speech. >

Mr. Churchill dismissed the question as irrelevant.

Lord Charles TJerosford reminded Mi1 Churchill that the regulations demanded that officers should wear .unjfoim when on duty. .

The "Daily Express" say; thrt Lister Council "ordered that the Pan ivy should be scuttled if she fell into the hands of the Navy.

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