LORD DERBY AND LORD RIBBLESDALE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 5

LORD DERBY AND LORD RIBBLESDALE

A FRANK WITHDRAWAL. By Mesraph—Press Association—Copyright London, November 26. Lord Derby frankly withdraws his accusations k against Lord Ribblesdale. [Lord Derby, referring to Lord Ribhlesdale'6 recent references to the Dardanelles, and Sir Chaxles Monro's alleged report in favour of a withdrawal from the Peninsula, said:. "A man who gives information to tho enemy goes by an ugly name; that name should be given just as much to a speech delivered in tho House of Lords as to a man risking his life to get information for the enemy. We have the right to ask Lord Ribbtesdale where he got the information which he said was common knowledge. I was at the War Office and did not know it, and I do not think you will find people who do."] SIR JOHN SIMON AND THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS London, November 26. Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, in a letter to the "Times," apologises for failing to notice.that tho extract from the Russian journal "Russkoe Slovo" (which contained a criticism of tho methods of the Nortlieliffe Press—which includes the "Times" and tho "Daily Mail," as well a 6 a host of others— in connection with- the war), was a paragraph from its Paris correspondent; therefore the criticism had not originated in Russia.