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London, May 2, The hearing of the libel action which General Sir Arthur Currie brought against the "Port Hope Guide" for alleging that he was responsible for wanton' loss of life in ordering the capture of Mons on the morning of Armistice Day concluded yesterday. Sir Arthur Currie claimed $10,000 damages, He was awarded $100 ($500).

The Judge awarded plaintiff costs, thus saddling the defence with a bill approaching $16,000 Mr. George Munsey was the sole dissenting juror. The jury were absent for three hours forty-three minutes.

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trisl is that all the menfor officers of the first rank have stood by Sir A. Currie, Including Major-General MacBrien)" until lately Chlef of Staff. They testifled to bis ability | 'and' his reputation for keen fudg-"} mant in a crisis. General. Turner. and Sir A. Currie, it may be noted, were both in the running for the The United Law Clerka' Society command of the Canadian Expedi-held their festival dinner at the tfonary Force when General Byng Halborn Restaurant on Monday relinquished It.

night. The company numbered

The trial throughout has been about 400. Mr. Justice Wright pre- marked by various interruptions sided, and seated at the head table and "scenes," resulting in orders were Mr. Justice Finlay, Mr. from the bench, notably when Justice Humphreys, Judge Wood- Colonel Jack Currie, resisting the cock, and Judge Moore. order of the Court, was forcibly. Proposing the toast of the even- ejected. The allegations of the ing, the Chairmen said the organi late Sir Sam Hughes regarding the nation had been established.. in confusion of the two Curries, when 1882. Their investments now фав blamed amounted to $150,000, and: the in- Colonel Jack Carrie for being found in a dug-out, are come was about £12,000. All would days, when matters of history, but nothing has agree that. In these

corro human responsibility was liable to transpired in this trial to

be overshadowed by State aid, they borate such allegations.

Mr. Preston is an elderly Cana-should cherish the feelings which dlan who has held various peste caused men to contribute to a 80- both here and, In Europe. He start-clety like this. Their members.con- ed political life in the Liberal 'sisted of barristers' clerks, solici party in 1878, and was in the thick tors' clerks, and clerks in legal of politics for twenty years. He offices and departments. He hasit- then had fifteen years abroad in ated to say how much barristers were indebted to their clerks. various official capacities. Arthur efforts to re-enter politics after the

(Laughter.) Some, it might be, Currie commanded the Canadianwar were unsuccessful, whereupon Army Corps in the Great War, and he settled at his old home, Port is now Principal of McGill Uni-Hope, to write his reminiscences. versity.

IN NORTH CHINA.

Sir Arthur Currie declared that he had brought the action, not for the sake of any monetary damages, but to vindicate his record and to stop the scandalous stories which had been current for years, and which had culminated in the art cle in the "Port Hope Guide.”

The trial created enormous in terest in Canada. Sir

Story of Case.

Montreal, May 1. General Sir Arthur Currie has been, vindicated.

The jury to-day found for the plaintiff, awarding him $500 damages and costs..

Great interest was taken in the trial in Canada. It was a very costly one. Counsel' fees ab- sorbed $44,000, while the witnesses expenses came to $6,500, and those of the jurora to $1,750,

His

RECORD TEMPERATURE IN TIENTSIN.

Peking, May 29. The Peking area Is threatened with a drought unless it rains soon. On May 26 the thermometer began a rapid rise from the spring level to summer heat and for four days it has been hovering around 100 degrees.

Tientsin registered 109 'yester day. This is believed to be a re- cord for May.

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thought they owed them too much, but he would be sorry to say that. When he was at the Bar one of his seniors said to him that one could not be too careful about choosing a clerk; choosing a wife was of minor importance. (Laughter.) It wan said to be possible to release one- ¡self from a wife, but from a clerk

ever. (Laughter.) When at the Bar he was often brought into rela- tlon with solleitora' clerks, and their knowledge of the law, honour, and Industry never failed to com- mand his admiration.

Mr. Harry Ellis Stapley, the hon. treasurer, responding, stated that last year 68 new members were en- rolled. The expenditure in benefits and grants was nearly £7,000, and they added £3,000 to their invested funds.

Mr. Justice Finlay proposed the health of the chairman, who brief- ly responded.

For some years there have been rumours and insinuations against the man who led the Canadian forces to victory, accepted in some The crops in Chihll are suffer cases by the mothers, wives, and ing badly. sisters of men who fell in the field, soon, the losses will be severe and who themselves would prob"N. C. Dally News." ably have been the first to refute

Mr. Justice Humphreys, proposing "Our Guests," and coupling with it such allegations against their com-

the name of Mr. Wilfrid Greene, mander. An editorial written by Mr. Preston, published in a small

said the Court of Equity seemed to K.C., a leader of the Equity Bar, Ontario paper, the "Port Hope Evening Guide," on the occasion of

live on their imagination; they had If the law the unveiling of a plaque at Mons

all sorts of fictions, always well worth would not allow one to have any last August, brought these in visiting for something chic and remedy of any sort, one applied to sinuations to a head. It asserted dainty and for courteous attention. the Court of Equity for what was that Sir Arthur Currie bad led the Other shipments of volle and other called equitable relief, and, as far Canadian forces to Mons-and-tim-frocks and summer dresses will be as he could make out, equitable re- ed the final fight there for his own arriving every fortnight. In addi- lief was something like the much glorification, although the order tion; a fine variety of picturesque advertised pills it was guaranteed for the censation of hostilities at straw hats and flowers has also just to relieve when everything else fail- à given time on Nov. 11 had bean arrived.

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WHY MALARIA RECURS.

Sir Arthur Currie had disregard- ́ed these stories, to which publicity was first given in a debate in the Canadian House of Commons several years ago, when the late in the blood something more effi-

Once the spores of the Malarla parasite have become established

Mr. Wilfrid Greene, KC., res ponded,

A LONG WAY TO GO.

MONDAY, JUNE

1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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HORIZONTAL 1-The course of the

WEVER

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4-Head covering 7-To proclaim 10-A forearm bone 12-More courageous 14-Personal pronoun 15-A caps, 8. coast of

Gresos

16-The Magi 17-French for "ask" 18-A shore-bird 20-A notable period 21~"i lova” (Latin) 22-A person considered

Indefinitely

25-A constellation

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ÜTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,

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49-8tation (abbr.)

51-Ta provoke

|53–The Greek long

VERTICAL (Cont.) 22-A mountain nymph |23-Combining forms.

Nine

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| 56-A bearing around a 20-The opposite of

ahleid (Her.)

50-The birthplnos of Joan of Are |85-Extent of surface

66-To attempt 61-A Great Lake 68-A solar

|63-A anake-like fish

64-LEDE

VERTICAL

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Aayrim (Bible)

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Mosthade"

27-Combining form.

Star

|28-A Rusalka navst

station on the Bitlo

29-Nores god whose

neme is given to Tuesday

30-A depression

between two

mountaine

{$3-Poznassive pronoun.

86-Pertaining to

27-Combining form. Air - kingdom south of 32-Prafie From 29-An ecstasy 31-A son of Joseph

(Bible) 34-Personal pronoun

18-Swella #7-Cut off

18-Roman number 19-A French satirical

welter

42-A temale dizoiple at

Joppa who was "full

of good works"

44-Prefix Through - 45-A hedgerow

(Prov. Eng.) 45-To render smooth

and pleasing

the factors _on an Inabot's head) 4-Famous American politiolan : B-Exlat 6-Pertaining to the

affairs of the present fo 7-Boy's namə

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is-A ros (Boot.) 14-To lash 19-An officer in

Mohammadan mosques

Bienna, Italy. 40-8tainad with 'bistre 41-Booty (slang) · |43–A. reservoir for

holding water 48-Foot-lever 40-Touchy 86-Girl's naNO |BT-A matrio land. Mansuro

62-Man's name 13-Before

|64-Friend (French)

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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will. appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross word puzzle.)

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are being did not deter McGill University chills, change of temperature, de to check this calculation; but, at not know, but his facts from appointing Sir A. Currie Its bility, or other causes. Then the any rate, it is quite a long way institution which has published masters sometimes complain that strenuously dented. That great as did the older England. School- Principal.

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countless sufferara in every part of Happily we do not often need to This throws not on the seller's shop we may find it on the those conditions were to keep on the world where Malaria is found. use these words in ordinary life, popularity of the bible in the shelves in parts, the different books the track of the enemy and gener

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facts do. Only in one other year history. The sales of such editions yond Mons, in order to keep pace Commence now to fill your veins don Morning Post with the flanking Imperial troops.. with a new stream of healthy, pure,

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