A WRIT FOR LIBEL.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 136099, 25 April 1908, Page 9

A WRIT FOR LIBEL.

XNdDENT IN THE MANCHESTER FIGHT.

Mr Churchill has issued a irrit for libel against the "Manchester Courier" for publishing a letter accusing him of escaping from Pretoria during tiie Boer war by breaking htis parole, and with deliberate lying on"tihe ChiiKa&e quostion.

(According to Mr A. M. Scotfc, Mr Churchill's biographer, Mt Churchill, when captured by tho Boers, wag imprisoned at Pretoria wiuh 60 British officers, Ln tiie States Model Schools, fenced in and guaxdod by armed sentries. Has escape was a remarkable, one. He had already mode three tempte before he reached Pretoria. He dropped over a waH and managed to evade the sentry, and found himself throo hundred nifLes (rom safety. A comrade who tried to escape with him failed. A train took him into the country, end there he happened to stumble on the house of an •Englishman, who concealed hum. After a day or two ho was shipped to Delagoa "Kay as wool, and got through eaiely. He has been charged with deserting his comrades in captivity, but one of them stated that this was quite incorrect. As for Chinese labour, Mr ChnrcbiH d-enouziced it vigorously, but admitted wlten ho became a Mdiuster that to cod] it slavery was a "terminological inexactitude." The editor of tho "Manchester Courier" is Mr Jia.mes Niieal Dniui, a vory mi!itai>t unionist and tariff reformer, to whom Mr Ghamshdll <is amaitihoma.)