PRINCE CAROL'S HOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1930, Page 7

PRINCE CAROL'S HOST.

LIBELLED BY NEWSPAPER. ' i, (Received 11 a.m.) . ■ ■ " LONDON, March 25. In the action, Mr. Barbu Jonesco versus the "Evening Standard," the "Evening Standard" lodged an appeal, but announced in Court to-day that it would consent to a dismissal with costs, and expressed regret at the annoyance caused Mr. Jonesco. , ■ ■ _ A similar action against the Daily Express" has been settled, defendants navins a sum in compensation and wiving indemnity of costs. Defendants counsel stated that it is now recognised that the source of information which inspired the articles alleging .that Mr. Jonesco was not a Rumanian but a Pole, was "something worse than merely unreliable." After a hearing that lasted for thirteen davs in the ' King's Bench Division, a Rumanian, M. Babru Jonesco,, who was Prince Carol's host during the latter s stay in Britain in 1923, was awarded £12.000 damages for libel against the "Evening Standard. The newspaper had alleged that his name originally was not Jonesco, and that he was not a Rumanian, but a Pole who had come to Britain with the Belgian refugees in war time. M. TonesCo'e counsel said he was respectedand' prosperous until the allegation, after Which the people regarded Inm as an impostor, which resulted m his bankrupt^. T pnftliv evidence, much of it taken on Emission, was brought.,, from Rumania the declaration that plaintiff s nTvio "had always been' Jonesco. A plea of entered te .tb»: defence which alleged that plaintiff's 1 name was Moritz Lieba, and .that he was . born in 189*' his father, boing of Polish descent. The ccyts of the case were cs*,.mafc3d ■ o be £20.000.