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\' f '_';~ xd e * ts se . § 7 ,y..A -- ! . CR 74. ... rdgit * '% ! where they were going to sleep "0""! hm, where their next meal was comming!| & from. ~I f Ear]l of Reading's Visit, _ ! : Col. Pratt told of the time when the Earl of Reading, the British _Ambassador came to the _ United °. States on the Olympic a year ago. \_The ship was then transporting hos=> _pital cases, and had more than 800| on 'board. The Captain intended go-- ing to Halifax first, where he was to' disembark the men. Lord Reading o interfered and said that he must be taken to New York first. The | vessel went there,; and as it was difti-- cult getting it up the river Lhe' _White Star Company sent a fine| boat out to meet the . Ambassador 'ana he was asked to transfer. . He 'refused, saving he must be landed' at 'the dock ~from the: Olympic.| Finally, after many tugs had put the Olympic into position, he was dis-- embarked. and tlien the vessel re-- turned to Halifax. l "I have all deterence for the man, but I don't believe . the King _ of | England would do that," declared 'the speaker. "I know positively the Prince of Wales would not, because he is a soldier and 1 have seen him Iin France. 1 know positively that Sir Douglas Haig would not do it. | "My objection is that our Over-- . _ | seas Minister, Sir Edward . hkemp, must know about that; certainiy Sir George Perley must know about it---- or else he should not be in that posi-- tion--and Sir Robert Borden must! know about it, and up to the pre-- | sent time nothing has been heard of a word of protest from them." He ~] declared that had such a thing hap-- pened to Australian troops. Premier Hughes would hbhave made such a fuss that the Earl of Reading could | lnot, have gone among the cuunn'y' 'I'olk of England. | \Canadians in Jail, f i Five or six men were killed in the -- | Rhyl riots, and he regretted they had not been given a military burial. He believed public opinion would yet force them to be given a proper ' burial. At the inquest the orheri § day it had been stated 80 Canadians ; $ were in jails and dungeons of Eng-- i land. There was no habeas corpus | in the army. He cited a case to | | show that it was common for menl to languish in prisons for two or | threéee months without being brought/ before a court--martial. A Toronto 8 PC officer,. a criminal lawy'er, a couple of ; years ago had approached the Ad--| _ jutant--General overseas and said | 3 there were many men in (,'anadian' camp»s waiting to be dealt with b_v! courts--martial. Mo offered, . at his;' » own expense, to visit the camps and | make a report within a week. The[ ' Adjutant--Geiterai promised consid-- | eration. and the next morning the f ----__Toronto officer was ordered by wire | --__to go home "because it Jlooked as | though he might in some way bring i discredit on somebody." There was / no reason for men languishing in | prison for five or six months. 'When l ----,he left England it was said ten Canrnadian bovs were in the Tower of London. ; Desaling with attacks on himself. | one of which was published in The | Ottawa Journal. he said that there' were reports by (General Gardiner. | Major--General McCrea, Major--Gen-- | eral Maxwell. General Ashton, Col. | *RTaltory and Col. Walker on file. at | neadouarters as to his work, which _would be sufficient to answer his | "critics. He. did not know why two / or three editors, who had gone over-- : seas with a party of newspapermen., should be attacking him. "I wonder if they know where part of that | £3.000 went to that was collected on | the train? 1 wonder if they know| something of where that £75 a week l goes that is collected by the ticket-- gellers?" he asked. 4 _ _ In conclusion,. he said he did not / I want the people of Ontario to be-- lieve there was any serious lack of | discipline among Canadian troops. | i A '/'