SLAUGHTER AT MONS.
TOIIONTO (Canada) Sept. '?■ 5 General Sir Arthur M . Currie, Coin-niamler-in-Chief of the Canadian troops during the World War, and now president of McGill University, has issued a writ, charging libel and asking unstated damages from the Port Hope (Ontario) “Guide,” for an article condemning. as involving needless slaughter the assault and capture of .Mens by the Canadians just before the Armist ice.
The article said that it was “doubtful whether during all the war there had boon a more deliberate and useless waste of human life than the so-called ‘capture’ of Mons. ■‘lt was on the last day —at the last hour -almost at tlie last minute,” said the article, “when-to glorify the Canadian Headquarters Staff—the Commandor-in-Chief conceived the mad idea that it would he a line thing to sav that the Canadians fired the last shot in the Croat War.” The article said : ‘‘There are hearts at Port Hope stricken by sorrow and mourning through this worse than drunken spree by Canadian Headquarters.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 1
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167SLAUGHTER AT MONS. Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 1
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