BITTER TORY PAPER.

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1922, Page 5

BITTER TORY PAPER.

EXPOSURE OF “MORNING POST.’’ TRIES TO WORK T T P ANTIPATHIES [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Juno 28. The story of how a Peer visited the home of Lady Bathurst, proprietress of the “Morning Post,’’ and demanded an apology for a newspaper criticism was told in the House of Lords, when Lord Bathurst accused Lord Midleton of calling at the lady’s homo, trembling with hysterical ■excitement and demanding an inslant apology. He (Bathurst) declared That the other Peer told the lady that if it had happened in former days, he would have shot Lord Bathurst. • Lord Midleton. who was in the Lords interjected: What I said was that if the ci re must aneos were those of a century ago, 1 would have called out ihe noble Lord, ami attempted to shoot ’.’’he incident arose when Lord Midleton called the attention of the House io a paragraph by the “Post’s” Dublin correspondent, relating to the murder of Field Marshal Wilson. This paragraph read. “The vast bulk of Southern Irishmen from the "Midleton anti-Partitionists to fhe Rory O’Connor Republicans were going about their business as if the Empire’s greatest soldier had been a blind beggar run over by a cab. The foul deed gives monumental satisfaction indeed, for the case is steeped in the infamous doctrine that killing is no murder when the victim is an Orangeman or a Loyalist.* * Lord Midleton described the statement as a calumnious malicious libel, and said he would not have mentioned the matter, but that he had failed to secure a withdrawal or an apology from Lady Bathurst. The Lord Chancellor said that the case was astonishing ami constituted a most gross outrage. He reconimcndded Lord Midicton to take advice whether he had no remedy. I(e added that Lord Bathurst’s attitude should be one of sackcloth and ashes for such a vile insult. Lord Bathurst explained that enquiries were being made in Dublin regarding the subject. A WOMAN ARRESTED. LONDON, Juno 29. Mrs Elizabeth Edie, a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions who was arrested in the raid following Sir 11. Wilson’s assassination, has be. n remanded on a charge of having incendiary bombs in possession. The prisoner stated that they belong ed to a woman who went to Ireland six months ago.