The Archive · 1924

Punjab Libel Case

Labour M.P.'s Motion for Removal from Bench of Mr, Justice McCardie London, June 23.

In the House of Commons to-day, it. "George Lansbury, Labour 'Member for Bow and Bromley, asked, if the Government would grant time for diseuscion of his motion asking for the removal of Mr. Justice MeCardie from the Bench in' annexion with his summing up inthe libel. case of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, against Sir Sankaran Nair, a former member of the Government of India.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald sajd that the Government had come to the conclusion that discussion of this subject would only add to the harm done to India by the words complained of—Reuter.

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