The Board of Inquiry expresses the opinion that, by engaging in these transactions at all, Messrs. Gregory and O'Malley and Lieut Commander Maxse acted in a manner inconsistent with their oblig: tions as Civil Servants.
Information. obtained from many sources had led the Board of Inquiry to conclude that the rumours of many Civil Servants being involved fu such transactions are groundless.
The report refers to. Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister to China, buying jointly with Lady Lambton £1,000 worth of -French franes in November, 1920, which he. wold later at a profit of £135.
The Board of (inquiry state that they regard such purchase of a Halt n Day for Diacussion Promised Feb. 29.
In the House of Commons to-day the Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, undertook to find at least half ay to discuss the report of the Board of Inquiry in connexion with the franes ease at the request of Mr. Ramsay Mnedonald, leader of the Labour Party, that' the House should be given an opportunity of Associating itself with the Government's action'in directing that Mr. J.D. Gregory be dismissed, that Lieut.-Commander Maxse be severcly reprimanded and forfeit three years' seniority, and that Mr. 0. St. C. O'Malley be permitted to resign.
Mr. Macdonald asked for an inquiry into the issues which had been raised civing to the re-opening of the Zinovieff affair and the incomplete position in which it was left by the report—Reuter.
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