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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TE, 1923.
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THE CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE. THE BOW STREET POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS,
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These, said Sir Richard, are the only pasages I need read at this stags. They Br the libellous passages on which I ask you to commit the defendant for trial.
Evidence was then given of the publi tion and distribution in Loudon, of the pamphlet, and of the arrest of Douglas
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of Lord Alfred Douglas on a charge of criminally libelling, paterday morning. Mr. Winston Churchill in a pamphlet On that evidence, Sir Richard Mair entitled The Murder of Lord Kitcher asked for a committal and the Truth about the Battle of Jatland and the Jews" was undertaken at the in- stance of Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director MARTELL & CO. of Public Prosecutions. The pamphlet in question, which is alleged to have been written by Douglas, was placed on sale towards the end of October.
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Sir Richard Muir, in opening the case at Bow Street last month said that the issues before the court were very simple, because he should submit on the fact of the case that the only questions his worship would have to determine were, firstly, Was the document in question a libel on Mr. Churchill and secondly, Did the defendant publish it or cause it to be published? The truth or falsehood of the statements in the libel was not-n issue before hun.
There were some facts not in cfttrik versy, to which he must draw the magi trate's attention, dealing with statements in the pamphlet which they alleged to he bellous. These facts were necessary! in order that he might follow the meaning) of the libellous statements.
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COMMITTED FOR TELAL, Asked by Sir Chartres Biron if he had anything to say, "Douglas replied.
Ishould like to call attention to the: fact that the substance of this alleged bel was put into print and circulatoil by me about two years ago in a paper called Plain English which I was then iting, and that the pampheet which. forms the nbstance of the present charge contains nothing now and no- thing which has not been in circulation för tro geurs to the knowledge of the prosecutor-if Mr. Churchill is the prosecutar. During the course of thes two years I have frequently invited Mr. Churchill to take proceedings against
My defence will be that I intend to justify what I said in the pamphlet and say that it was written in the public interest and entirely without malice and personal ill feeling of any kind. against Mr. Churchill or anyone else,
Douglas was then committed for trial. Bail was granted in two sureties of £100 JUTLAND COMMUNIQUES.
each, Sir Chartres Biron added that he Kaid Churchill, Mr. Winston
would like to point out that anybody wha Richart, wag First Lord of the Admiralty old the pamphlets while the matter way From 191 until May, 1015. He had untul judien was liable to be proscezted held any office connected with the Ad- for libel, miralty since May 1915
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to have in mind because, in the documenty SANITARY ENGINEERS. with which we are dealing it is quite clear that Mr. Churchill was referred to as being a Cabinet Minister at the time the Battle of Jatland was fought-namely: May 31st, 1916.
On June 2nd. 1916, at p.m., the first British communiqué with reference to the battle of Jutland was issued from the Press Burean. At 1-3 a.m.; the following morning. June 3rd, the second British
mmuniqué was issued.
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German communiqué had been issued over the wireless making false and ex aggerated claims on behalf of the German Fleet, as to the success of the Germans.
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Ta 1990- Lord Alfred Douglas was the editor, of a paper called Wein English, which was issued for a time and then crased to exist. In the issues of that paper were published a number of articles dealing among other things with the Battle of Jutland and the communiqués from the Admiralty to which I shall refe BOWERN & CO.
One of the tendencies of those'articles was to attribute to the Jews generally, and
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In respect of these allegations against the Jews, felter, was written by the litor of the Jewish, Guardian to the Morning Post, and the Morning Posk published the letter or a portion of it. Thereupon Lord Alfred commenced an netion against the proprietors and other persons connected with the Morning Post, charging then with having been guilty of a libel upon him, and claiming damage in respect of it;
That action was heard on July 17th nad 19th this year. On August 3rd Lord Alfred, it appeared, made a speech at the Memorial Hall, Ludgate-circus, and a report of that speech was published on August 19th in 'n paper published at Galashiels, called the Border Standard. The pamphlet, which is the subject of this prosecution, purports to be a reprint from the Border Standard of the report of the perch of Lord Alfred on Angust That pamphlet has recently bern 3rd.
on pale in the streets of Landon.
In the pamphlet Lord Alfred said he made a defuite charge against Mr. Chur- chill in Plain English when he said that a large sum of money wits given to him by the late Sir Ernest Cassel after Mr. Churchill had issue a false report of the Battle of Jutland.:
It requires no argument aid Sir fichard, to show that that statement is
most grossly and gravely libellous one! o Aby man, and more especially an a man in the position of 31r. Churchill. Again, in this pamphlet the defendant said. "I have always taken it to be fairly well established that if you bring-u serious accusation against a man involving.
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"That," said Sir Richard,,, is a re- affirmation of the libel, which the writer knew and been denied on oath." -
Douglas: Is counsel entitled to make these comments 1. He keeps où saying this. are libel. He is entitled to com- The Magistrater ment on the libel in this case
Continuing, Sir Richard quoted a para graph in the pamphlet is which the de fendant said, "If the position were reversed and if Mr. Churchill was the editor of a paper and if he printed in his columns one-ball, one quarter; or one, fifth of what has been printed about him I would have hit round at Bow Street with his nose "hanging over, the dock in less than three hours.
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