HEAVY DAMAGES.
ARMY LIBEL ACTION.
By TelesraDh-Pr«sVi Aesoclntlon-flopyriirht
. London, February 19. Hearing was continued to-day of the oaso in .which Major W. A. Adam is suing Colonel Sir Edward Ward, late Secretary to-the War Ofiico, for libel alleged to have been contained in a letter written in 1910 oiv behalf of the Army Council to General Scobell, and communicated to the press, upholding General Scobell's confidential reports in August,_ 1910, when five officers, including Major Adam, wore removed from tho Army List. ■
The jury found that Sir Edward Ward had published the document complained of in the dischargo of his public duty, but that the contents wero not proper for the public to know. Tho sum of £2000 damages was awarded.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1990, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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121HEAVY DAMAGES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1990, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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