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 would have greater weight and be more efEective in stopping the circulation of the book.'

"Do you remember being sentenced to six years^ transportation ?" — ' Yes '.

"Do you remember what the Judge said in summing up ?"— ' Yes '

Sir Edward Carson then read this passage in which the Judge referred to the articles in the Kesari : —

"They are seething with sedition ; they preach violence ; they speak of murder with approval ; and the cowardly and atrocious act of committing murders with bombs, not only meet with your approval, but you haul the advent of the bomb into India as if something had come to India for its good."

"Did the Judge say that ?"— ' Yes

"Was that the reason why you took no proceedings in India to vindicate your character ?" * No *.

"Can you point to any passage in Sir Valentine Chirol's book which is more severe than that ?" — * I complain of being associated with murder '.

The plaintiff was asked to read a passage in which one of the men who were concerned with the murder of Mr. Jackson in 1909 said his mind was influenced by a certain book. The plaintiff said that the book was reviewed in the Kesari. He did not write the review himself. The book was a life of Mazzini and a translation in Marathi was dedicated to him. Many people dedicated books to him without his knowledge.

"Do you see that the murderer says that it was by reading that book, that his mind was prepared for the murder ?'* * He may have said that *.