4 OCTOBER 1924, Page 3

* * * * - Mr. • Travers Humphreys, the

Prosecuting Counsel, when he announced in Court the abandonment of the case, gave quite a.. different reason for the change of front. He said that it had been represented that the intention of the article was not, after all, to seduce men in the Fighting Forces from their duty. Apparently the: Attorney-General had failed again—had failed to instruct his Prosecuting Counsel on the real reason for dropping, the prosecution. The defence which the ,Prosecution' kindly set forth on behalf of Mr. Campbell was so- absurd that Mr.. Campbell himself publicly ridi- culed it. No- " representations. " about 'the innocence of the article had ever come from him. Thus the machinery of the law was brought_into grave and quite.unnecessary contempt.