JUST PERSECUTION.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 337, 19 January 1937, Page 5

JUST PERSECUTION.

Yellow Press Made Scandal Concerning Duke. Press Association—Copyright. London, January 18. Mr W. E. D. Allen, in a letter to the Times, says “In connection with the Press persecution initiated as a result of the casual and utterly harmless visit of my wife to a phrenologist in company with a member of the Royal Family,” says: "My mother-in-law, an elderly lady with weak health, living alone, has been reduced to a state of nervous exhaustion by the relentless attentions ot reporters. If the liberty of the Press is to be expressed as the persecution of individuals of all classes it Is high time that Parliament restrained a license that is amounting to an intolerable, evergrowing- scandal, otherwise certain individuals, who have grown rich upon the ruthless exploitation of other people’s private lives, will find themselves in conflict with men who are not in such a helpless position as she who was recently tortured on the wheel ot the yellow Press.”