3 AUGUST 1934, Page 3

There was an unexpected flare-up on the final day before

the recess, when Sir Roger Keyes fiercely indicted the Admiralty for their treatment of Admiral Tomkinson, who was in acting command at the time of the Inver- gordon mutiny. His case was that the Admiralty had commended the Admiral when they were alarmed, but afterwards made him a scapegoat for their own delin- quencies. The House did not like the story at all, nor Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell's reply to it. The main points of the reply were that the Admiral had not really been Commended at all, that his censure had been approvei by a new Board of Admiralty, and that in any case the Navy ought to be left alone to conduct its own disciplinary Measures. Like all similar cases, discussion of this one did not Carry knowledge much further.