“WORSE THAN SPREE”
SIR A. CURRIE SUES FOR LIBEL
SLAUGHTER AT MONS.
Toronto, Sept. 23.
General Sir Arthur W. Currie, Coni-mander-in-Chief of the Canadian troops [luring the World War, and now president of McGill University, has issued a writ, charging libel and asking unstated damages from the Port Hope fOntario) “Guide,’’ for an article condemning, as involving needless slaughter the assault and capture of Mons by the Canadians just before the Armistice. The article said that it was “doubtful whether during all the war there had been a more deliberate and useless waste of human life than the so-called ‘capture’ of Mons. “It was on the last day—at the last hour—almost at the last minute,” said the article, “when—to glorify the Canadian Headquarters Staff—the Commander-in-Chief conceived the mad idea that it would be a fine thing to say that the Canadians fired the last shot in the Great War.”
The article said: “There are hearts at Port Hope stricken by sorrow and mourning through this worse than drunken spree by Canadian Headquarters.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 September 1927, Page 7
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