LIBEL ACTION
.o REFLECTION ON MILITARY OFFICER, PLAINTIFF AWARDED DAMAGES. Prvie Association—By Telegraph—Copyright . ' LONDON, July 17. An important libel action has concluded in Edinburgh. Colonel W. E. Gordon proceeded against the Dundee People's Journal, -which published an interview asserting that he ordered the Gordon. Highlanders to surrender in the Mons retreat. Colonel Gordon denied the accusation. He said he ordered the men to fix bayonets and summoned them to follow tiim and break through or perish, but a subordinate officer countermanded the order Colonel Gordon was awarded £500 damages.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 5
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92LIBEL ACTION Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 5
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