MRS ASQUITH AND THE "GLOBE"
JUDGMENT FOR SLANDER.
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, March 21. In the c aS e brought by Mrs. Asquith (wi e of the Prune Minister) against tho Wooc newspaper for- slander, judgment tor £1000 and costs was, by consent, entered for phintiff.
[Ihe essence of tho slandor, shortly put, was the assertion in tho "Globe" newspaper by an anonymous correspondent that Mrs. Asquith had visited ponnmgton Hall (the internment base in England for German officers), played tenuis -with the captives, and taken food gifts of various kinds. Tho publication of a letter evoked a number o. others, commenting in uncomplimentary terms upon the supposed action of Mrs. Asquith, who denied in court that she had ever visited the place or in any way acted as her critics had insinuated.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 5
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133MRS ASQUITH AND THE "GLOBE" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 5
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