BELFAST JOURNALIST FINED.
PRINCE’S VISIT INCIDENT. Sydney Redwood, editor of tho Irish News, was lined £IOO for spreading false reports likely to interfere with peace, recently. The newspaper printed an anonymous letter urging that the Prince of Wales’ guard of honour on his recent visit to Belfast should comprise soldiers instead of six-foot policemen, and adding: “We Ulsterites do not want outsiders nor our guard of honour to be composed of liars and perjurers.” The prosecution contended that there was the innuendo that the Royal Ulster Constabulary were liars and perjurers and could not he trusted. An inspector in evidenco disagreed with the suggestion of the defence that t'he reference might apply to the 10,000 Orangemen lining the streets.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 2
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119BELFAST JOURNALIST FINED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 2
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