WRIT FOR ALLEGED LIBEL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 4

WRIT FOR ALLEGED LIBEL

ISSUED 'AGAINST "SUN" NEWSPAPER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christcliuroh, September 30. Andrew Fairbairn has issued a writ for £1000 against the "Sun" newspaper for alleged libel ill critical articles some months ago dealing with reports of the Cost of Living Commission and tho Food Commission.

Among the many Wellington men serving the- Empire at tho front is Sir. Alfred "Win. Gyles, an Old Wellington College Hoy., and a well-knoivn Dominion chess player. When war broke out, lie was on a visit to England, and he immediately enlisted for active service in the 11.A.M.C. At tho front 110 experienced strenuous times. Ho was through the fighting at Ypres, at Neuvo Chappelle, and in Flanders. He had the luck to be stricken with measles and removed from his billet a litfclo in advance of a German shell which wrecked tho habitation. Ho has had a number of escapes which he looks on as miraculous. Ho says that tho sights of tho men who wore victims of tho Gorman poisonous gas wero terrible and ghastly beyond description. One shell l'rom a German long-rango gun was generally sufficient to level two or thrco brick buildings. "I am in the best of health," lie adds. "1 keep my pocket chess men oil me, and occasionally (ind a player. I met Dr. Fred Richards, who was dux at Willis Street School tho year before I was, and Dr. Tcnneiit is a lieutenant in our division." , Mr. Gyles has had fivo cousins serving with the Forces, thrco at tho Dardanelles. One of his cousins, str, 'Harry Barnard, of Eltliam, was killed at the Dardanelles,, and another returned by tho Tahiti, wounded in tho