NOTED LIBEL CASE.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1923, Page 4

NOTED LIBEL CASE.

ONE EARTHING DAMAGES. (DSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON. July 18. I.uid Alfred Douglas, cross-examined said he wa« of opinion the Jews murdered Kitchener to prevent his going to Russia, heeau.se if he had stopped the resolution, the war would have ended two years earlier. Witness believed what he said when he wrote tiiat Mund was out to destroy the Christian race by propagating certain diseases. Witness reverted to Jiis statement that Sir Ernest- 0.-scl made money out of speculations, a week or

so alter the Jutland bailie. It was I’aeke (Balfour's Secretary) who at a dinner party said Hon. W. Churchill prepared the Jutland report. Witness world like to have r. traitor in the Admiralty hunted down. L’ym m-ii-lant

editor) in plain English said Captain Spencer mid him Hon. Churchill was always kept short of money, by the Jews. Thai was to say, by Philip Sas-von and Aloud.

Mr Hastings opened the defence. Balfour's evidence, taken on commission was toad. Me stated when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, the course of the Jutland battle was reported to the Admiralty by the Coinmander-in-C'ltief. Balfour drew up a communique which after being shown to hi- colleagues. was sent to the newspapers. Churchill had nothing to do with the preparation and issue m the communique.

Hon. W. China-li.ill slave evidence that tlieie was not a single word if truth in the allegations that he wain the band- of Jew-. There was not the -lightest truth in the statement that he entered a compact with Jews, or anybody el-e in reference t * the Jutland repo: t. It was an absolute lie (Imt Sir F. Ciis-tI or any body paid linn anything for tin* part lie played in the matter. Sir Gordon llewait -trough advised him against instituting proceedings on the ground tliit. the • lams of the plaintiff's papers was uTi ui'r and * ontempti'* 11*. that it would only give n an endless advert Lennon and notoriety. He had nothing In tin with tin* preparation ol the Jutland report ami did not see it untii It appeared ill lie* new* ] ;!i ers. The Jury vcidi.-t awarded ih** plaintill' one birthing. The decision v.'n* r* it cd v. it’i nnpbms". The .111 !i o* -aid no entirely -hared the • i i•: y ' ■ opi o ion. i' til pat-i he- ere to pay their eo-l*. SERIOUS CHAIM I IS. LONDON. July I'-. Tiiat it was the Jews vim planned ..Lord Kitchener's death; that Hu* British Cabinet, ex-A!ini-tor, Sir Alfred Aloud, would destroy tin* l iiri-tiau race i*.\ all tbe means in hi- p-e.v.-i* ; I Imt a powerful personage at the Bri Mi Ad niira 1 t.v inn .in eun-taut v. irehess (nininimieatii.ni with tin* German-, dating the Buttle of Jutland; tliai a British Admiralty tactical iniiu recalled British

destroyers to Harwich in order to onable the German Fleet to escape ; and lastly that the British Government received payment on a “sixty-forty” basis to let the German fleet escape, wore among Lord Alfred Douglas’s allegations in bis libel suit against the ‘•.Morning Post.” He admitted that the hulk of these allegations were based on second-hand information. Lord Douglas recalled that the Roths child-’ fortune was the result of the early news of the Waterloo victory, and he declared that the Jutland fight was an exact repetition. He pictured Lord Balfour sitting at the Admiralty office with his feet on the mantlepiece. signing the Jutland Battle communique without reading it.