BICKERTON CASE
NO COMPENSATION. (Received Thursday, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. In the House of Commons, answering a question by Mr J. C. Wilmot (Labour) regarding compensation for the New Zealander Bickerton, Sir John Simon said the reply to representations contained satisfactory assurances regarding future treatment of British subjects arrested in Japan. Sir John Simon said that lie did not consider a claim for compensation could usefully be made. Mr Wilmot: “Can nothing more be done in view of the fact that Bickerton, who was arrested for no other erimo than harbouring dangerous thoughts, was.,, subjected to .. indignity and some ill-treatment.'”
Sir John Simon:' “Bickerton was arrested on a charge of a breach bf the Japanese law. Whether right oxwrong I have not the least idea. Nobody can complain because he was arrested. In view ofi a difference of opinion regarding ill treatment it would be most difficult to carry a claim for compensation farther.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 February 1935, Page 5
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