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When Captain Dewar was placed on trial, last week, he asked and received permission to cross examine Rear Admiral Collard. Then for some four hours snarling questions and vituperative rejoinders flew between Captain and Admiral, both of whom purpled gradually with rage and seemed to become oblivious to the presence of the august Court. Printable excerpts...
...Dewar: "Now, Sir, I ask you to imagine yourself in the place of Bandmaster Barnacle...
...Dewar: "Did you ever say you were fed up with the ship on which I was your flag captain...
...Dewar: "Answer...
After much further bickering the proceedings were closed. They had consisted of two distinct trials, respectively of Commander Daniel and Captain Dewar; but the charges and evidence in each case were substantially identical. To an impartial civilian it was clear that both the accused had acted from commendable motives in complaining against a superior whose conduct had been well nigh unbearable. This view was taken by practically the entire London press, last week, including the usually antithetical Conservative Daily Telegraph and Laborite Daily Herald. At Gibraltar, however, the Court held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both...