JUTLAND AND THE JEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 15

JUTLAND AND THE JEWS.

t_ORD ALFRED DOUGLAS AGAIN. ••.UORNLNi: POST" APPEAL I PHKI.IT. [].v Onr Spcvial Correspondent.) LONDON. April 17. flip Court yesterday upheld an appeal by- the "Morning Post Limited,"' from ,;,' order of Mr. .lust ice Swift, in Chambers, in an action for alleged libel brought against I hem by Lord Alfred Douglas. Mr. -Instice Swift, reversing (in order nt the Master of the Supreme Court, refused lo direct Lord Alfred Douglas tv make a further and better answer to an interrogatory. : The alleged libel was contained in a letter from the editor of the " Jewish Guardian."' and published in the ■• .Morning Post.'" in which the writer said:— "It must it" longer be a paying proposition to men like Mr. Crosland and Lord Alfred Douglas In invent vile insults against the Jews." Tlie defence pleaded \\a-= jiistilication an d fair comment, and tlie " Morning Post'" administered to Lord Alfred Douglas three interrogatories, one of which asked whether all or some of certain extracts from a publication culled "Plain English"' (of which Lord Alfred Douglas admitted that he was editor and controller) were untrue. Lord Alfred answered: " I say that in my firm belief none of the statements of fact contained in tlie said extracts is untrue." Mr. J. B. Melville, who appeared in support of the appeal, referred to the following extracts from " Plain English" in support of tlie defendants' particulars of their plea of justification. "The people of this country will remember the pain and distress which they felt when the first official report of the Battle of Jutland was published. The world was informed by the Government that many of our capital ships had tieen sunk, and the actual German losses admittedly known to the Government were suppressed. As a result :the impression was created that Britain had sustained a severe defeat at sea. '• Instantly British stock in America dell; but within a week the truth was Tell known, anil British stock in , America rose again. It may be of interest to the public to know that as a ' result of this fall and rise in stock a certain financial group of .lews cleared a net profit of £18,000.00(1. "It may also he said that the Cabinet Minister who drew up and issued the false report about the Battle of Jutland, which produced this fall in stocks, had spent the week-end with one of the most powerful members of the financial group. Sir Ernest tassel, and came straight from Sir Ernest's house ,to publish his report which led the world for a week to believe that the British ' Navy had been defeated by Germany!" Counsel aiso read another paragraph of what had been published in " Plain English." It ran as follows: — "To carry off the Jutland financial coup nothing less than the employment of tlie three greatest financial forces in the world was required. These forces were the Bank ot England. Rothschild's, and Deittseher Bank." Another extract from " Plain English"' read fay counsel, ran :—. " Colonel Ktzgeralfl. Lord Kitchener's A.D.C., . . . was ilatlv told by Sir ■Uemson Ross, a director of a branch _. of Military Intelligencee. ' What Lord Aiteiiencr must realised that this war ""as planned by the Jews; caused by the Jews, and is fought foe the purpose of drawing out the Jewish race.' Upon hearing this, Lord Kitcheners comment j was: 'I regard the blood of the best men of England as too great a price to I pay for educating the Jew. Can no Christian occupy a position of trust in the War Officer' That brave statement sealed his death-warrant."