We have many things to b3 proud of as a
nation in the history of the war, but perhaps of nothing more than of the part played by a British Judge and jury and a semi-judicial tribunal, the Ad- visory Committee on Internments, in the case of Mr. George Gruban and of his action against Mr. Handel Booth, M.P. Mr. Gruban was placed in circumstances which undoubtedly were calculated to prevent his getting justice. He was a man of Prussian origin, and actually a Prussian subject till the beginning of the war, when ho became naturalized. Owing to the course of certain events which we will not describe at the moment—Mr. Handel Booth's decision to appeal makes the case in a sense still sub judice—Mr. Gruban was interned as a person of German origin. Fortunately, however, he had enough belief in British justice to apply to the Advisory Committee on Internments, who saw that a wrong had been done him, and at once ordered his release.
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