"FLYING DOCTOR" LIBELLED
SINGAPORE PAPER TO PAY 500 DOLLARS DAMAGES (Received January 15, 9.50 p.m.) SINGAPORE, January 15. The "Flying Doctor" (Dr. Clyde Fenton), -claiming 4500 dollars, was awarded 500 dollars libel damages against the "Straits Times," arising from a newspaper report of his air dash from Australia to China, to the bedside of his sick mother. The newspaper alleged that Dr. Fenton was piloting an aeroplane "which was the property of the Commonwealth Government and which he had been forbidden to use by the Commonwealth Government." Dr. Fenton, who is a Northern Territory doctor, claimed that this implied theft, whereas the machine was his own property. All the Commonwealth did was to insist on the installation of an additional tank which he had no time to arrange He also had no time to arrange for permits to fly over other countries.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 13
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