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Libel Suit Called "Waste Of Time"

Making his final submissions for Miss Edith Sitwell, the authoress, and her author brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, in their libel.action in the King's Bench Division, Mr G. O. Slade reminded the Judge that in one libel case a princess was awarded £25,000 damages, without, proving she had suffered a farthing's worth of damage.”

Judge's Ruling

The Epic of the "51st” In the Battle of France

By G. E. Ley Smith

After their victory at the Grand Bois de Cam-

bron the Gordons extricated themselves from a

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death-trap by Fearless initiative.

4. Gordons Fight Their Way

Through to Freedom

Watchfully. the Gordons waited for the oncoming Ger- mans on the morning after the withdrawal from le Grand Bois de Cambron. They had not long to wait. The Nazis launched a heavy attack, hurl- ing themselves against the battalion lines with great ferocity.

With tremendous · courage, the Gordons held their ground against overwhelming num- bers until the vastly superior weight of the German attack hegan to tell.

Just when they were about to settle down for breakfast, "C" Company, who were in reserve, received news that' "A" Company had been sur- rounded in front of Gouy and moved up to extricate them.

In artillery formation they worked round the far side of Manering under heavy shell- fire. Capt. Donald Alexan. der, the company commander, and his second in command, Lt. Barker, drew up a plan of ̧ campaign. Two platoons were to go forward and take up positions on a ridge, with com- pany headquarters and a re- Eerve platoon guarding the

-rear.

Under intense fire, the two platoons made their way to the front of the ridge and dis- covered where "A" Company had been by a mangled motor cycle that had apparently been hit by a shell. As they spread out along the ridge they could hear the movements of "A" Company in the valley below. Their Bren guns were firing.

Down below the ridge, out of "C" Company, the forward platoon of "A" Company, un der P. S. M. Carnachan, who showed great presence of mind and clear judgment, were pre- paring to make a stand,

The Germans had driven them back, and the Sergeant- Major had just told L. Cpl. Kennedy to go back for more ammunition when a dispatch. rider arrived. His motor cycle had been shot from under him. It was the mangled cycle seen by Capt. Alexander and Lt. Barker.

Told of the platoon's danger by the dispatch rider, P. S. M. Carrochan decided to retire.

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Keeping up fire with a Ger- man Tommygun he had picked up, the Sergeant-Major covered the withdrawal of his platoon to canal. They crawled along the bank, and eventually he made them get Into the water because they were still being snipod. For four miles they waded, some times waist-deep until they reached company headquar- tera at Gouy.

Company to some extent and gave them a chance to get clear.

Evidently the Germans be- lieved that a strong force oc- cupied the ridge, for they sent a terrific barrage of shells, about sixty a minute, und the position became too hot to hold,

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Captain Alexander ordered Barker to take one platoon back along the top of the ridge, while he took the other along the valley, "Then one of us will be sure to get back." he said.

It was he who was destined never to reach his own lines. As he was following behind his platoon with two or three others, he heard a movement among some trees. "Where's "A" Company?" he shouted.

A voice replied: ""A' Com- pany is over here."

Capt. Alexander and the others made in the direction of the voice, but as he drew near he was wounded.

The voice belonged to a Ger- man officer in charge of a party following up the with- drawal of "A" Company. And here. occurred ад incident which revealed a strange mix- ture of sporting instinct and brutality on the part of the German officer-one, of those inexplicable warps in Ger- man character.

With a bullying voice he or- dered his squad to cease fire. One man disregarded the or- der and the officer shot him.

Next moment he made Capt. Alexander comfortable and tumed to the other Gordon Highlanders, He offered them a start of 200 yards to escape with their lives. It was in offer they readily accepted and took to their heels. All' of them got away.

Meantime Lt. Barker's platoon was carefully picking its way along the ridge with shells dropping all around the.n. Lt. Barker WAH wounded in the leg and was limping back with his men.

Help was coming quickly. Elsewhere along the front, Lieut. Basil Brooke, son of Major A. Brooke of Fairley, was skilfully disposing his nino Bren gun carriers to hold up the waves of Germans coming over on the battalion front. They were divided up. into sections of three firing at the Germans who were cóm- ing forward on foot, on motor cycles and on armoured cars. They had brought them to a halt.

Lieut. Brooke ordered Sergt. Preston to go to the as-. sistance of "C" Company. As the three carriers rolled along the road at a high speed, one of them ran into the German lines and was never seen again.

Mr Slade asked for damages alleged Innuendo or that the article that would mark to the whole was defamatory, and a plea of fair comment. The hearing was adjourn world that the imputation

ed. against the Sitwells was entirely without foundation.

Captain Alexander's party At the conclusion of the evidence The Silwells sued the Co-operative for the plaintiffs Mr Justice Cassels could see Germans moving on. Press Ltd., printers, and publishers, ruted that the publication complain the ridge opposite that on

Mr Sydney R. Elliott, editor of ed of was capable of a'defamatory, which they had taken up their With his two remaining, "Reynolds News. They complained meaning.

carriera, Sergt. Preston. that a review of "Edith Sitwell's Mr G. D. Roberts, KC., said no positions. They started im- Anthology" in "Reynolds News im- evidence would be called for the de-mediately to rake the Nazis selected positions in an or puted that they had no ilterary fence. He submitted that the action with an intense fire. This chard which provided him ability and that their arrogance and was a waste of time and did no one diverted their attention from with excellent cover. It was conceit constituted their solo claim to any good except the three Bitwells,

fairly open country and his PS. M. Carnothan's platoon: prominence.

who obviously desired publicity and and the other units of Alguns dominated a wide_ex- The defence was a denial of the nothing clas

ed "wi

panse. He waited and then "C" Company came in sight. With them were some men from the Kensingtons.

Less than 300 yards behind them came the first wave of the Germans just appearing over rise in the ground in extended formation. Now and then Gordons and Kensing- tons huited to fire at the Ger-

muns,

Sergt. Preston and his crews then "let fly." They got the range immediately and the Germans wavered. The Bren guns maintained a devastating fire and the Nazis broke. "C" Company and the Kensingtons came through.

It had been a pretty desper- ate situation until the Bren guns appeared, but Lt. Barker and the remnant of the two platoons got safely out of the Germans' reach. For nearly half an hour the Bren guns held the waves of German in- fantry at bay.

Then Sergt. Preston's second gunner drew his atten- tion to heavy machine-gun fire about 400 yards away on the right. The Germans were again coming in on the flank. So he withdrew his carriers to another position, where he waited for about an hour with- out seeing any sign of the enemy.

As Lt, Barker's party strug- gled back on foot they were sniped at all the way. They stopped at one village and tried to harness a horse to a cart to get the wounded back. The horse was unbroken and looked like causing more dam- age than the Germans, so they abandoned the project.

They carried on their way, those who had been unhurt helping the wounded along, until they were overtaken by Sergeant Preston and his car-

wounded riers. The

were then placed on board and taken to the Receiving Aid Post.

With the rapidly-changing scene Sgt. Presion had dimeulty in find- ing Battalion Headquarters, which was now moving from place to place. He discovered a discarded motor cycle, with which he went on ahead to try to find Hoad- quarters,

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Teaching a fork, he chose to go the right, but he had not gone far before he found R.S.M. Leel's truck lying on the road riddled with lay

ne-gun bullets. Near, it

of the battalion's trucks. He decided he had taken the wrong turning and went back to the fork. By the other road he eventually made up on Battalion Headquarters and the Receiving, Ald Port. Lt, Brooke met him, He had lost his batman, Fie Hen-. derson and his driver, Ple: Dus- who was wounded and lying

can Receiving Aid Post.

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rom Lt. Brooke he learned that carriers had been lost ex- all the cept the two he was bringing back, and of them was so badly shot up that it had to be sent away for repairs. They never saw it again. aheils accounted for two of Mortar the other carriers.

Sgt. Preston, informed the M. O, that the carriers.coming on behind had some wounded on board; so the M.D. took the motor cycle he had brought in and went out to meet them. They all arrived back,

twenty minutes later.

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