1932-12-24 — Page 13

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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPI). SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932.

LIBEL IN NEWSPAPER

ARTICLE

£100 DAMAGES AWARDED .

i

The hearing

was concluded

rocently of the libel action by Mr. Lealio Martin Summers, of. Balden-road,

Cheam. Surrey, against Bir Wyndham Childs, formerly Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolotan Police, and Obhams Press, Limited.

Mr. Summera complained of an article in "John Bull" which, ho alleged, imputed dishonesty by him.

The defence was a denial that the words were defamatory.

Evidence was called for the defendants in support of their defence that the words complained of were true in their ordinary and natural meaning.-

Mr. Comyns Carr, K.C., com- menting on the fact that Sir Wyndham Childs had not given. evidenco, stated that, he had been denied the opportunity of asking him he were not ashamed of making use of "John Bull" to blast the reputation of a young man like Mr. Summers.

Summing up. Lord Hewart Bald that Mr. Summera seemed to have been very unlucky in his Associates. He was brought into the article quite incidentally and the jury must not forget that It stated that he might have been quite an innocent party. They knew now that Summers was in- volved in police court proceedings, but was discharged on the ground that there was no case against him to go for trial,

The jury found in favour of Mr. Summers and awarded him £100 damages. Judgment this amount and cents was entered against both defendants.

for

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SIR BASIL BLACKETT'S MONETARY SYSTEM

"Sterlínargin" is put on the man by Sir Basil Blackett, whose book "Planned Money" is published by Constable and Co. (69.).

Sir Banil is' a director of the Bank of England, and though he writes only in his private capacity the book throws much light on the policy of the Bank and of the Treasury.

He does not want an early re- turn to the gold standard, He

With the gold standard work. ing as unsatisfactorily na It did in the years preceding 1931, it will be a gain and not a loss to Britain to have her hands free and her powers of independent action un- hampered by being directly tied up with the fortunes of the American dollar and the French Irane, and by haying her prices largely at the mercy of gold prices

Sterlingaria is his alternative. "an international monetary system based on a number of local cur roneles, so managed as to main tain a constant level of internal prices."

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