G. B. SHAW ILL

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 6

G. B. SHAW ILL

VERBAL PUGNACITY UNAFFECTED (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, February 28. Mr. Bernard Shaw has been ill of influenza, but apparently not too ill to see what some of the newspapers are saying. To-night he issued an “official statement”: — “The special reports from special correspondents are inept fictions- I would not say a word to hurt the brazen liars who have concocted them, but. they might, at least have stopped short of attempting to assassinate'me by ringing ou a dead frozen night to announce the news of my own Illness a week after everqbody else knew and ask whether I would like to say anything about it. But for the urgent necessity of getting back to bed before a chill I . should have more to say to them than they cared to hear. Instead of having the advice of half, a dozen medical men, I am being competently cared for by one, only she’s a nursa My alleged persistent resistance in calling practitioners, in anticipation of their inclusion in the honours list by the Government which did not dare to allow my speech on the occasion of my seventieth birthday to be broadcast, and all the rest of the blundering twaddle, are inventions of needy and desperate men in order to extract money from editors too heavily preoccupied to be critical.”