BERNARD SHAW

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1929, Page 6

BERNARD SHAW

HOUNDS ON REPORTER. (United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Feb. 28. Mr George Bernard Shaw, who lias been ill with the influenza, is apparently not too ill to see what some of the newspapers have been saying about him. ■ .To-night he made an official statement as follows’: “The special reports from the special correspondents are inept fictions, i would not say a word to hurt those brazen liars who have concocted them, but they might at least have stopped short of attempting to assassinate me by ringing in the dead of the frozen night to announce the news of my own illness a week after everybody else knew, and ask whether I would like to say anything about it. But for the urgent necessity of getting back to bed before I caught a chill, I should have had more to say to them than they cared to hear. Instead of having the advice of half-a-dozen members of the medical profession, I am being completely cared for by one only. She is a nurse. My alleged persistent resistance to -calling in practitioners aiid specialists in ascetic, dieting, in anticipation of my inclusion in the Honours List by a Government which dare to allow my speech on the occasion of my 70th. birthday to be broadcasted; and all the rest of the blundering twaddle, are the inventions of needy and desperate men. in order to extract money from editors who are too heavily preoccupied to be critical”