INDIAN LIBEL TRIAL.
DYING MAN'S HONOUR. THE AMRITSAR INCIDENT. (Press Association,—Copyright.) London, May s.—Cross-examining Sir M. O’Dwyer, Mr Schwabe, for the defence, said that he was going to contend that what happened at Amritsar, where the troops fired on the crowd, was an atrocity which plaintiff sanctified. Mr Justice McCardie: It might be necessary, in order to save the Empire, to do things in such a serious situation which otherwise would be unjustifiable. ■Mr Schwabe read extracts from General Dyer's evidence. Sir M. O’Dwyer said that the facts differed almost completely from what he knew at the time of the incident. Probably he would have disapproved if the facts had been reported to him that way, but ho still thought that Dyer was justified in opening fire, knowing what witness did of the crowd.
Mr Justice McCardie: If these matters are going to be raised, I am determined a dying man shall have fair hearing.—(A. rfid N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 6 May 1924, Page 5
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