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June 12, 1940.

Worker To Pay

Leaders

Libel

Edoardo Dino Alficri, Italy's trouble shootar, rocantly sont

Ambassador to Berlin. Ho is a staunch supporter of Romo-Berlin axis policy and has been decorated by Nazis.

LONDON KIDDIES EVACUATED

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, June 11 (UP)-To-day saw the first overseas evacuation of British children.

A party of 40 school-children, de- parted to-day for India, where they will join their parents. A further 100 children are leaving for India in a few days.

In response to instructions from the Home Office, London hospitals are discharging all but the most serious! Cases.

There has been a last-minute rush in London to register children for evacuation.

Withdrawal of

French Govt.

PARIS. June 11 (Reuter).--The withdrawal of the French Govern- ment from Paris is being carried out according to plan.

£1,400 Damages

DAMAGES totalling £1,400 were awarded by Mr. Justice Stable, In the King's Bench Division, against Mr. E. R. Pountney, proprietor, printer and publisher of the "Daily Worker," for libelling Sir Walter Citrine and six other members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in articles published last December.

The judge said the libels were the culmination of a prolonged and persistent attempt to oust the plaintiffs from the position they had occupied and to undermine the confidence and respect which their constituents had rightly afforded them for a number of years.

The whole series of articles was but a chapter in a campaign designed to achieve a remoter object by methods no matter how unscrupulous and unworthy.

unions.

"I seems to me,” he said, "that enj The plaintiffs alleged that the articles Imputed that they had be-the evidence before me the only pos- trayed the interests of the trade sible inference that I can draw is that the change of polley emanated The defence pleaded fair comment. from headquarters that is to say, the committee or council, the names An Injunction Also Mr. Justice Stablo divided the of whose members he did not know,

but who functioned in Moscow," damages

Wolter 135 follows: Sir

The history of the world showed Citrine, £300; Mr. John Brown, Mr. Andrew Conley, Mr. Ernest George many examples of remarkable con- Hicks and Mr. James Kaylor £200 version, but he could not recall any cach; Mr. George Henry Bagnall and as remarkable as this, Miss Florence May Hancock, £150 "In my judgment, this libel was each.

Inspired In its origin, protracted, per- He entered judgment with costs, sistent, unscrupulous and inspired and granted an injunction restraining from abroad, and when brought to the defendant from publishing any the bar of justice the defendant has witness-box," said Mr. Justice Sta- similar libels reflecting on the per- not had the courage to go into the sonal Integrity of the plaintiffs.

In his final speech for the plaintiffs, blcing with a headline in the

Sir William Jonitt, K.C., said: " have never in my life before had a "Dally Worker" about Sir Walter case in which the defendant Press Ciring's evidence in the case, Mr. have published a brochure indicating Justice Stable

and as plainly as can be that people who deliberate get damages against them have to whistle for their money.

"We realise to the full that probu- our bly we shall be whistling for money,"

described it as "n unscrupulous Ile, making the earlier methods adopted innocuous by comparison.

He did not want the people of any class to be prevented from reading the views they held in a newspaper

In his judgment Mr. Justice Stable or contributing their views to a news- said that where comment was directed paper, but that essential freedom of to the personal integrity, the charac-speech must be enjoyed without do ter of the individuals, the opinion, ing grievous injury to others.

he considered, must be such as could

be reasonably supported by the facts) on which the criticism was based.

Freedom of Expression

"The expression of views, no matter how unpopular, how fantastic or how wrong-headed they may op- The ministries are now installed pear to the majority, is a right which and functioning in the places assign-1, among others, am paid to see l ed to them.

preserved," he added.

"I subscribe wholeheartedly to Young Mon To Leave PARIS,

June 11 (Reuter)Gen-what fell from the lips of Mr. Pris— eral Hering, Military Governor of that those views which are held by Paris, issued

to-day only a few which are unpopular and

order an

whereby all young Frenchmen aged which run counter to the views of the 17 and over were advised to leave the Paris area.

..

ROAD OFFENCES DOUBT

Effect Of Ruling

On Traffic Signs

The validity of thousands of con-

great majority of mankind, particu- larly in times of national emotional crisis such as war, are views that victions against motorists of falling to conform with trame signs has been this court should be particularly

put in question by a decision in the High Court

EXTENDING SIZE tealous to protect."

OF U.S. NAVY. WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuter), The House of Representatives has passed the Naval Expansion Bill which has been sent to the

White

House for President Roosevelt's signature.

The Bill empowers the increase of the Naval Air Force to 10,000 planes, 22 16,000 pilots to be trained and new combat vessels to be built.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

.

Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial Summary issued yesterday says:

Very little interest was taken in the market to-day.

Bales

But that did not mean that because a movement was unpopular, because its numbers were small, one was licensed to libel and to malign

The judge held that the article of December 13, written by Mr. Ben Francis, who had given evidence, was defamatory, and that the defence of tair comment failed.

A solicitor, charged with falling to "Hall" sign, appealed observe a against his conviction on the ground that the police had not proved that: the sign was in conformity with the Ministry of Transport regulations as laid down in the Road Trane Act

1930.

The High Court upheld his con- tention, and this decision apparently "Abominibla Charge". -

on the police of There

was not a scintilla of places the onus material," he said, "on which one proving the validity of the sign in could have supported such an abomi-every case they bring. It also seems to Invalidate every conviction in the nable charge.""

when the defendant The meaning of the articles and past except the intended meaning on the minds pleaded guilty-If the fgn in ques- of those who read them was that tion was not proved correct in court those trade union leaders who went at the time,

Other Signs Involved to France were planning to transfer unemployed British workers to key An AA official sald recently that Industries in France whether they the decision appeared to cover all wanted to go or not, and that the signs except automatic traffic signals plan had been under discussion in a and night affect pedestrian crossing secret session. It was dimcult to cases as well. He added that prac conceive anything more calculated to tically every sign to-day was a duly defame a trades union leader in the authorised one. eyes of his constituents.

"Euch conviction would have to be It had been suggested that the considered," he said, "and obviously articles were dictated by a body in that would be an almost impossible Moscow and did not represent the task for the authorities to undertake honest, independent judgment of any in war-time. We think the matter body.

man might be left in abeyance for the WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuter). The judge said he did not think he time being. We feel strongly, how- The United States Senate approved was entitled to draw the inference ever, that by leaving these thousands by 67 votes to 18 President Roose that the attack was paid for by of cases to be settled after the war velt's request that the Army should Moscow.

that should not be allowed to pre- bo given authority to trade in old

That is a matter which will re-judles the remission of fines them." rifles and artillery needed by the main in the decent obscurity in which Allles for credit against the orders for new weapons.":

Trams $16 Further naval casualty lists, and the 4th and 5th War Office casualty lists are avaliable for Inspection at the "Hongkong Telegraph" Office, Second Floor,

LATE NEWS

Mr. Fountney apparently prefers to revealed towards the prosecution of leave it."

movie-Inspired Abroad A

Mr. Justied Siable went on to say that a complete change of polley was

the war in the manifesto of the Com- munist Party of October 7, 1939, from that shown in the manifesto of Sep- tember 2, 1930.

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