1939-06-26 — Page 27

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 26, 1939.

MOVING A GREAT HOSPITAL Libel Action

Seven Days To Go 8 Minutes Away

ONE

NE of the biggest and most complicated removal jobs ever attempted in Britain faces the authorities of Westminster Hospital.

This month the entire contents of the old building in Broad Sanctuary, opposite Westminster Abbey, will be removed to the new in Horseferry Road, about eight minutes' walk away.

There must be no hitch,. for while the work is being done treatment of in-patients and out-patients must be continued.

*"GIGANTIC TASK"

"It is a gigantic task," said on officiul "but preparations are now complete.

"We shall remove about 100,000 records of past patients. These are of vital medicat Importance.

"When they have been taken to;

hospital, guaranteed the last £10,- 900. They agreed to split this be been enlled upon to pay £3,500 each. tween them. Actually they have

"Mr. Docker has already given over £50,000. Sir Edward Meyerstein has given over £15,000."

Franco's Frugal Brother-In-Law

the new building they must ba To his fervent admiration of the

methods of Herr Hitler and

classified and arranged in apple-ple Signor Mussolini Don Ramon Serrano order.

"During the first

few days mis-Souer, the Spanish Minister of the cellaneous equipment will be leans Interier, joins a suitably dictatorial ferred.

Frugality where food and drink are concerned.

"Four days later the operating theatre furnishings will be taken over, but one operating theatre will be kept going in the old building for emergency cases.

"Pathological and bacteriological equipment will be removed on the same day.

At the banquet given to Senor Suner by Signor Mussolin! in Ilome! recently the Duce's own moderation at table was at least matched by his guest of honour,

in Seville at which Senor Suner was

Recently a

a friend was at a banquẹt The next day the dispensary will present. The choleest wines aucceed- be moved. This will perhaps, be the et one another. At the end of the most exacting task of all. Thousands meal, which lasted several hours. of bottles must be taken to the new Senor Suner had six full ginsses be- bullding and correctly classified. fore him. He had sipped cach once

£850,000 RAISED

only. "Later the patients will go to

Senor Sunér is fanatic-and their new home, and on the follow-looks 1. Pate-faced, blazing-eyed, ing day all the people in the cancer the brother-in-law of Gen. Franco annexe at Hampslend will be taken will undoubtedly play a very import- to the special section which has been at role in the new Spain. He is an .bullt for them.

"A special feature of the new Jospital is that each unit will have Its own out-patients' development. popular This is an entirely new development which will benefit patients and staff.

Ten-year-old Jose Matute, hitch-hiked more than 1,700 mes

to Hollywood from Guadalajara, Mexico, to break into movies. Hollywood police found him and Dolores Del Rio, Mexican star, bids him return home.

Senor Suner does not alight from

srdent Phalangist, and strongly pro- Nazi. He makes no secret of his dis-his car in the street. Instead the car like of the democracies. He is not is driven over the pavement and inta

with the

generals. GUARDING A MINISTER

Rigorolts

Senor Suner.

the rather confined hall of the Minis- where there is just room for 11,

The fund of £850,000 has now saforous precautions are taken to jammed against the stairs.

AL

the The engine is started some time

On Needlework 18 Years

HALSEY, Ore. Eighteen years ago Mrs. Herman been subscribed. Of this, £420,000 Ministry of the Interior In Burgos, if before the Minister is due to leave Koch started sewing on a fancy bed- was given by the public. The last two acquaintances pause to chat on the building again. On more than £100,000 was raised in six weeks. the stairs or in a corridor, they are one occasion, soldiers, police and spread. She sewed in more than a and Mr. immediately approached by guards visitors have been nearly overcome mile of thread a year until this year

by fumes from the exhaust,

the spread has 28 miles.

"Sir Edward Meyersteln Bernard Docker, chairman

of the and asked to move on.

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By Hitler's Former Friend

DR.

R. ERNST FRANZ- SEDGWICK HANF- STAENGL, former friend of Hitler, whom he was stated to have once shelter- ed, brought an action for damages in the King's Bench Division recently,

Complaining that he had been libelled by statements in an American journal, the "New" Republic," of April 27, 1938, the doctor, whose address waa given 38 Gunterstone Road, West Kensington, sued Selfridge and. Company, Limited, Oxford. Street, W., who sold the paper.

The case was heard by Mr. Justice Atkinson and a special jury.

Selfridges, in defence, said they had sold the "New Republle" in the ordinary course of their business and they relled upon the fact that the sale of the paper by them was mado to a persoit on Dr. Hanfstacngl's bekalt.

Mr. Eric Sachs, K.C., for Dr. Hant- stoengl, said the paragraph contain- ing the alleged libel was headed: "Undesirable Retugees," and Included the following:

"Dr. Hanfsteeng) was famous as Hiller's boy friend until he became the vletim of a palace letrigue.

"Political sanctuary is supposed to be for the victims of persecution, not the persecutors themselves."

VOLUNTARY EXILE

Dr. Hanfstaengl, Mr. Sachs con- tinued, had been living in voluntary exile in England since 1937 and no one was going to suggest a

word against the propriety of his conduct here, or, indeed, as far as counsel knew, against his conduct anywhere.

At the age of 18, Dr. 1[anistaengl went to New York and he educated at Harvard.

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When in Germany in 1922 he come for the Arst time into personal con- tact with Herr Hitler. Plaintiff was then 35.

From 1922 tl the end of 1923 he degrees. took an interest in the Nazi Party, which was then being formed, in 1923 there was the unsuccessful

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In 1931, by which time Dr. Hant- staeng had established a reputation as a historical writer and was in touch, counsel believed, with such men as Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Lloyd George, he accepted a position in the Nazi Purly.

FRIENDSHip waned

From 1933, said Mr. Sachs, the year in which Herr Hitler came into power by being made the German Chan- cellor, the friendship between Dr. Hanfstueng) and Herr Hitler waned. In February, 1937, he left the coun- try.

Dr. Hanfstacng!, giving evidence, said his friendship with Herr Hiller. ended in 1934, and since then he had never spoken to him.

Mr. Sachs: There is a suggestion which you interpret in this article us to your having certain perverted re- lutions with the person named in the article. Is there the slightest foundation for that?-Not the slight- est.

Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C. (cross- examining for Selfridge's): You game to Brituln in February, 1937, and in July you brought un action against a weekly paper published here? Yes.

and in-

Did the defendants apologise und

compensation?-Yes, demnify me for costs.

pay

Did you bring another action against a dully paper in which the defendants apologised and indemnt- fled you against costs?—Yes.

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And your character was vindicated

mi occasion also? Yes,

Looking back at it, don't you call it rather a dirty trick to wait for six weeks until this Issue comes over from America, the only Issue sold at all, and then bring this action at ance? We wrote to Selfridge's and I don't call it sporting not to answer and apologise.

PHONE MESSAGE

Mrs. Doris A. Lynch, of Glouces ter Place, S.W., give evidence that lust May Dr. Hanfatoengt telephoned her and said, "If you are near a bookstall where you can buy a copy of the New Repubile' I think it would interest you to see something in it about me." She. went to Sel- fridge's and bought the paper,

Mr. Hoberts, opening the defence, action had no submitted that the merits.

"It is a purely artificial netlon," he said, "In which the plaintiff has manufactured the evidence of publi- cation, tricking and trapping Messrs. Selfridge to supply a month-old copy of a weekly paper in order that he may bring a claim, not apparently minding the publicity the case will cause. It is provoked by himself solely to make money."

The hearing was adjourned.

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