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'lh aA * t # # * Not Enough Light to be LEt] |Col, Pratt, in Legislature, Says Officer and 4 * # * e | on License Affairs, He N.C.O's From That Institution Collected Fears £3,000 From Canadians on Homeward-- f amummmmmen . «_ mames mc omm & * © Bitterly criticizing the * SeYefl | ' bound Tram Tells Of Rhy] RlOtS } sleepers on the hill," and "39013"";3» I bonimniaitnteccy e uie taity us ooremecs pace en iaearieriea ies [ (, *t i o lately | . that the search]lght's';vhlctht;e Par-- A sweeping denunciation of the 0 ' shone from th.c qutside 14 -- pe| | "C4 tape in the overseas administra-- - liament Buildings 1 .Sho,lf Hart-- tion of the Canadian army, together & turned _ on _ the _ inside, the 'with charges of the most serious, s ley Dewart, K.C., told l nature against many officials at s Liberals of North Toronto at a meet-- Argyll House, London, and in Cana-- ! ing in Eglinton Town Hall I.ast night dian camps, was the feature of anl t that he did not believe that MON||pggrecs py Ljeut..Col. A. C. Pratt| s should be allowed to administer 2| | pp gouin Norfolk in the Legislature' moral act by "grafting at the ex-- yesterday. He said that the reason| ~A pense of the peogle-"d io the prom for the Rhyl riots was that the menl Mr. Dewart referred to e x ; reate , and 4s ises of the Government to investigate | | "}"'?'e not being tre "ud ;)r(ix)erlg :Lat' o the charges he had made. To do so ||that subsequent events prove **>1 they had appointed a good Conser-- the outbreak had been worth whlle.l vative, Mr,. Peter White, K.C., t9| | as the men had promptly been given sift and select the evidence before it| ; their pay and 20,000 had been sentl reached the ear of Sir William Mere-- home within a week. He charged | ® dith, the Royal Commissioner. that imembers of the R.A.F., whoj There were many rumors in the| | could not get home because of alleg--| air regarding changes to be made in | i ed lack of shlpmng'acsommodatxon.! the Ontario Temperance Act, Mr. fou.nd that by "salving" the hand ot! ' Proudfoot stated. At first it had been| | & ticket--seller they could get a berth j the intention of the Government to| ' and get passage to Cana}da._ ;I'paesg! eaut submit just the single question to the | ; txcket-bevl'lersb made at ttmes" 75 | s ferendum, but now, as| | W°Ck. Col. Pratt charged also that| 3 people in a refe 3 4 | | two years ago an officer and two announced by the Provincial Treas-- 10' s m bA i . Honse. Cana-f i » four questions, among| | 2;C O S trom _ Argy ouse, \ urer, three or | dian _ administrative _ headquarters] others wine and beer licenses and c ame ' F | overseas, had passed through a train f Government sale of liquor, were to be carrying people homeward -- bound | 64 j * a m voted on. I am satisfied that the and collected about £3,000. | people of Ontario never want the old The member --~for South Norfolk + bars }l)l&('k agaxdn.t (:':',',pla";i":) X: Icited many examples of where im-- FRR are all oppose 0 it. s (Ober. if j ded speaker said, to bring back beer and | | DSSL¢) 'ifatment had.been acconded Wwine would simply be to bring back He told of the bulldozing methods | the bar, and people should remem--| | which a Major had to tolerate. and t ber that when they come to vote on | | asked, "When a Major is treated like the referendum. that, what is a Tommy going to ex-- The Leader of the Opposition de-- | pect?" Col. Pratt spoke before the clared that the present Government orders of the day were called. The ' had copied nearly every reform that| galleries were crowded. His expos-- ; 1| l the Liberal party had introduced, ure of conditions overseas, while not * t and had tried to palm it off as its coming within the scope of the , | own. The women would recognize| Legislature, was frequently applaud-- | what the Liberal party had done for| ed by members from both sides of ;them. and it was to the women he the House. llqc;c;l:eg] ;gt{::lm him to office at the General Turner Efficient. Mr. Nelson Parliament, M.P.P. for The speaker called attention to the Prince Edward, appealed for greater recent Kinmel Camp riots, for he 'umty between the city and country.| said he believed the members were lSam Clarke, member for Northum--| interested in view of the fact that |berland. whom the Chairman intro-- 215,000 soldiers had gone overseas s duced as the oldest member in the from Ontario. He had no general House, referred _ to the Dewart| condemnation for the powers that charges. He spoke of the appoint-- be. He had already expressed his ment of Sir William Meredith as vindication of General Taylor for k chieif officer, and remarked that any share in the cause of the Rhyl the Chief Justice was getting a lot troubles. The General was most ef-- of good jJobs out of the Government. ficient and had the welfare of the wornnemememmenmmancnmenmmmemnmmensmmmemmmemng private soldiers at heart. '"That com-- & o t e mendation may not be extended to Argyll House," Col. Pratt declared, because while General Turner had it under his charge he was not re-- sponsible for thke personnel, many of * the officers having been appointed before he took charge. Col. Pratt also commended Major Nichol, who was on General Turner's staff, and Col. Thomas Gibson, who was on the Overseas Minister's staff. He also spoke in warm words of Col. j ICo]quhoun, the _ Commandant at ' Rhyl, for the speaker was loath to believe that that officer had any s blame in the matter. "I fear he had not the choice of his subordin-- ates, and I know that he had done * everything in his power to get ships s to bring the men home," said Col. * \Pratt. He also commended General |Gunn, 0.C. M.D. No. 2, for the at-- 'tention given to the soldiers. 1 | _ The member for South Norfolk isaid that the first reports allowed to \get into the papers were greatly dis-- 3 |\torted, and he read from The Lon-- &don Times to bear him out in this. | contradicting, as he did, so many of 'the statements contained therein. All 'told there had been only about 600 |rioters in the Rhyl Camp. He at-- tributed the causes for the rioting to 'the fact that when the men --were .|gent to Rhyl they were told they h ( II + l'tii_ s