BILLING CASE ALLEGATIONS.

Grey River Argus, 10 June 1918, Page 3

BILLING CASE ALLEGATIONS.

ONE TALE DISPROVED. (Received June 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. Colonel Cripps, commanding the Bucks Hussars in Palestine, has written a letter to Colonel Burnham, Honorary Colonel of the Regiment, contradicting the suggestion made in the Billing trial by Mrs. Villers Stewart (a Billing witness), that, Major Rothschild and Neil Primrose," M.P., have • been -shot they possessed knowledge-! of- -an alleged . German "Black Book." . 3oth oncers, he •writes,- •; fell- under . Turkish fire, when leading their men with great gallantry. ■' ANOTHER LIBEL CASE. -■■ i J LONDON, June 7. Henry Murray, the author, was fined £100 for criminally 1 libelling Sir ."NY. Marwood (Board of iTrade Secretary). ]$fcr.\ Justice: .Darling remarked -that Murray was evidently suffering from a sort of war mania, affecting many people in the- country.; ; .'• : Murray siiggested that Marwood was a subsidised German agent, like others recently involved in' court,' was :arfected. by a crazy condition of mind due to the war. otherwise he would have been imprisoned. - .

Justice Darliner evidpntly alluded to the evidence in .the: Billing trial. •