ROYAL LIBEL REVIVED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 10 January 1912, Page 8

ROYAL LIBEL REVIVED.

On February Ist this year Edward Mylius received the maximun sentence of 12 inonths’ imprisonment, having been found guilty of having published in the “Liberator” what the Lord Chief Justice described as “gross and infamous libels” of and concerning King George. The “Liberator” articles it will be remembered sought to prove that the King’s marriage to the Queen was bigamous, in that he had already married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Culme Seymour. Tne trial proved up to the hilt tha Mylin’s allegations were utterly devoid of' any foundation, and is the compplete indication of the King as a man, Husband, and father. With Mylius’s removal to prison every decent man and women hoped and believed that the cruel lie had been not only scorched, but killed and buried for all time. But this hope was not destined to be fulfilled, and Mylius’s friends have reopened their campaign of calumny. The “Liberator” which describes itself as “a Journal devoted to the International Republic,” was printed in Paris under the editorship of an American citizen named Edward Holton James, an associate of the notorious Krishnavarma. At the time of Mylius’s trial James announced that “as there seems to be some question raised as to the legality of the “Liberator” he has decided to suspend the .ssue for the time being.” James, it seems carried out his expressed intention of suspending publication, and for three or four months the “Liberator” was not heard of in England. In June, however, James brought out the issue and followed this up with others. In all these issues attempts were made to reopen the Mylius case, and to justify the libels. During the past week scores of copies of this scurilous ray have been sent through the post from France in open newspaper wrappers and delivered in Loudon, and it is apparently James’ intention to signal the coming release of “Comrade” Mylius by a vigorous postal^campaign' conducted from the Parisian liar. James has betrayed the identity of two of his calumnious contributors — namely Comrades Bradford and Barnes. r l'hc latter, is or was, resident at Lincoln, and Bradford is believed to 1)0 a Socialist well known in Portsmouth. Between them the Post Office and the Public Prosecutor ought to bo aide to do something to nip James’s pestilent campaign in the bud.