LIBEL SUIT
NAVAL OFFICER & EDITOR CRITICISMS BY A CREW CONDITIONS ABOARD A BATTLESHIP. (By TelegTnph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received May 19, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 18fch May. Captain Thomas Webster- Kemp, formerly commander of the battleship London, has sued Mr. Lionel Yexley, editor of the periodical Fleet for libel. Captain Kent's counsel stated that the paper appealed to the lower deck and solicited from the crew criticisms' of their superior officers. An article on the battleship London likened the conditions aboard to the swashbuckling at Zabern. Captain Kemp, in his evidence, denied that the vessel was seething with discontent. He admitted that he had not been reappointed to the command of the London when the vessel was recommissioned. The further hearing of the case was adjourned. [Captain Kemp has recently been senior naval officer in the Persian Gulf. He entered the Navy in 1880. Mr. Yexley was at one time in the Navy, but resigned in 1898 to take up journalism and to fight the vicious system of victualling the Navy and running naval canteens. He has published several books on naval matters.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 7
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182LIBEL SUIT Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 7
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