GOLD COAST NATIVES, DESPITE BRITISH ACTION, MAY HANG
Recd. 8 p.m. London, March 6 The House of Com* ions failed to secure from the Colonial Secretary. Mr. a firm assurance that the condemned natives on the Gold Coast would not be hanged before the House was given another opportunity to review the case. Mr. Creech-Jones said that he, like the Governor of the British Gold Coast (Sir Alan Burns) was “greatly exercised about the case.’’ ?ir Alan Burns had informed him the administration of British Justice was likely to be discredited by delay in the carrying out of the court’s decision, and there already had been demonstrations awl pwbiie indignation xt the delay.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 March 1947, Page 5
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