JUTLAND BATTLE
CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE. LORD A. DOUGLAS ARRESTED (Reuter.) LONDON, November 7. Lord Alfred Douglas was committed for trial at Bow Street, on bail of £2OO on a charge of criminally libelling Air. Winston Churchill in a pamphlet, entitled "Murder of Kitchener and the truth about the Battle of Jutland and the Jews,” wherein he alleged that Sir Ernest Cassel gave Air. Churchill a large sum for issuing a false report of the Battle of Jutland, thereby assisting to bring -off a financial coup. Sir R. Muir (Crown Prosecutor) pointed out that Air. Churchill was not a member of the Cabinet at the time of the Battle of Jutland, and that Air. Churchill and Lord Balfour, on the occasion of Douglas’s recent libel action against the “Morning Post,” gave evidence that Air. Churchill had nothing to do with the first Admiralty communiques regarding the battle.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1923, Page 5
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