With the release from. prison on Warsen Biling ans: eh Tom Mooney wes sentenced 10 month in connection with the Praperetness Day Seming in'San Rrancseo in 1016, th end hae from put ton very tragic Dusiess. Tne conviction Cone suspen from very shotty after hoosh it wax proved. that vious of the witnesses had "given perjured Tewtong. alt that could be done was to. save the lives ofthe men by' n Feprieve which meant {08 them finprisetment for ite: Throughowt the feng years which aoaured. many attempts were Trade' to secure' the: libernion of these men whose gilt was very. considerably. in doubt, for one reason or anothers rusty i Be Haved political thave. men Were. Rept behind bare, uni' Governor Culbert Olson st he last, tluctiony dealered that one ofthe planks of his Blotiorm "vould, be" the: iveraion of 'Tom Hloonay it he were sisted to the governorship. Unt ager Governor' ion kept his words and freed Mooney. who, os he emerged from prison trounced, tal' won Is Tntanlon to. devote the wont o¢ his fe Yo securing the liberation Bilin. Mosmey received a pardon: Nis probe able that ings willie similarly elearedr and ret I a believed to be a grave injustice wil wer recited so Taras i is powitietoredjant the foelunet of men who nave, spent, over: twenty years in ioo" Whetner mey" were actualy Zany or. Innocent truss tween alone really Know. "On the evidence' produced "at the Grlatial tru thie conviction. seemed "be the ohio correct vordlet when the ry could reece But that evidence has been considerably Blown thon and there is suficion evidence yo. show that Billings alt offered'as 9 defence atthe {ria was a tre ao, Tis one of the rage humanity" that despite all the care which is tixan'"in. civilized courtness to see. hat the uty are punished andthe innocent left Hnrmseds there are riscarsioges of Teaice, The coe of- Mooney" and Billings appears ts be one uch, bute n'a comforting hecht Unat thee {ive hen have at let obtained Belated Treedorm which was probably wrongly denied theme Correspondents At The Front British and American correspondents attached to the British Expeditionary Force in. France have arrived "at the front and, henceforth, a more personal aspect of news reporting will' be available contrasting with the impersonal and departmentalized versions of events. published hitherto. This arrangement so early in the course of the hosillities is probably due to the efforts of Viscount Gort, the Commander-in-Chief, and contrasts vividly with the experiences of the last war when Lord Kitchener refused to have correspondents anywhere near the front and: the consequence was that at-tempis to report events brought correspondents into conflict with the military authorities. Viscount Gort's receptiow'of the correspondents is typical of the character of our new Command InsChief, When he described the war a Jong period of intense boredom interim with short periods of intense fear" he was aside' the ponderous definitions of the manual and giving a personal viewpoint fo people who appreciate personality. "One astute observe declared that Viscount Gort was something unusual in military leaders. He wrote: "He hax a pleasant, easy manner conversation and none of the brusqueness and ompousness associated with military men, He shy and quiet in the English manner and is inclined to self-depreciation rather than the assertiveness characteristic "of some well-born Englishmen." Correspondents who knew Vis~ count Gort when he was Chief-of-Stal of the Shanghai Defence Force in 1927 will subscribe to this opinion. The informality' of is press conferences in his room at the Astor House, when correspondents sat on his bed or any other article around the room, including trunks and boxes, while he announced the day's news will long be remembered as typical of the man now in supreme command of the British army. Viscount Gort's news bulletins were not the colourless oficial versions now distributed. They were straightforward talks on affaire given by a man who did not allow military formalities 10 interfere with his friendly chats
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