A LIBEL ACTION.
LONDON NEWSPAPER SUED. By TelPgraph—Press Assn —Copyright Received Nov. 16, 7.35 p.m. London, Nov. 15An interesting libel action has opened. William Watson, chairman of the North London Unemployed Council, is suing the Duke of Northumberland and the Morning Post in connection with articles entitled “A Bolshevik Plot in England.” published in August, 1920, which accused Watson of forming Soviets in Britain and corrupting many Irish soldiers. Cross-examined, Watson admitted he received 60s weekly in 1918 for furnishing Scotland Yard with reports on the Bolshevik movement in Britain, but said he did not mean to he a spy; he only gave the police twaddle. \\ atson also admitted he met emissaries of the Russian Soviets in London. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19211117.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121A LIBEL ACTION. Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in