ALLEGED SEDITION.
Admiral Dewar Blamed for Pamphlet. SPIRIT OF BOLSHEVISM. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 27. The “ News Chronicle ” says that a certain Vice-Admiral is taking legal opinion whether Rear-Admiral .K. G. Dewar, who figured in the Royal Oak court martial, in 1928, can be prosecuted for sedition uttered in a pamphlet. Rear-Admiral Dewar is Socialist candidate for Portsmouth North, where the Conservative, Sir Bertram Falle, had to cancel all election meetings owing to organised hooliganism. The pamphlet in question is headed: “ The Nation Faces the Bankers.” It has pictures of the ex-Kaiser and Mr. Montague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and is captioned: “ The British Navy at, Jutland in 1916, Beat the Kaiser; at Invergordon, in 1931, it beat Norman.” Sir Bertram Falle said that a .spirit of Bolshevism was abroad in Britain’s premier port, and freedom of speech had been abolished. The Conservative agent will ask the Admiralty, after the election, if Rear-Admiral Dewar is entitled to continue to draw £950 retired pay, if his action is disloyal. Rear-Admiral Dewar admits that the leaflet is in bad taste, but ridicules the idea of disloyalty, or of insult to the Navy, in which he spent his life.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 28 October 1931, Page 1
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