The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday May 26 1919

But the members of the Calcutta Bar have always maintained the highest traditiOns of the.English Bar and feel that the military authorities in the Punjab are unnecessarily encroaching upon the cherished rights and privileges of the Bar and those of His Majesty's subjects in India. [...] That the members of the English Bar ordinarily practising in the Calcutta High Court and in the Courts subordinate thereto respecfully -protest against the order of the Adminitrator of Martial Law refusing permission to Messrs. [...] That the Junior Advocate do send by wire a copy of the above resolutions to the Scretary of State for India in'Council (with a copy to the Attorney-General) and to His Excellency the Viceroy (with a copy' to His Excellency the CoMmanIder-in-Chief) and a copy to the Chief Justice of Bengal. [...] The British people during the active prosecution of the War allowed all their cherished constitutional rights to be suspended and the writer says " What Dicey calls the essential characteistic of the British constitution namely the absence of arbitrary power on the part of the Crown of the Executive and of every other authority in England " went into retirement and the old long unused pre [...] GEORGE THE FIFTH by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great I 3ritain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith Emperor of India.