LIBEL ACTION
BY GENERAL CURRIE. DEFENCE COUNSEL’S ARGUMENT. CASUALTIES 15 MINUTES BEFORE ARMISTICE. (By Calle — Press Assn. — Copyright.) (Received 20, 9.5 a.m.) Ottawa, March 19. Startling statements were made at Coburg during the argument on security for the costs in General Currie’s libel action against the publisher of the “Port Hope Guide,’’ Frank Regan. The defence counsel said: “If it were not for the unfortunate fact that war records are made to mislead and do not represent the true state of affairs the matter would be simple. We say that records have been deliberately falsified. We propose to bring men here to say so from every unit engaged in the Battle of Mons. We propose to put men in the box who will say that their comrades were killed at a quarter to eleven on the forenoon of November 11 and the bodies were seen lying in the gutters.’’ —(A. and N.Z.)
The action arose out of the publishing of a statement that General Currie was responsible for useless waste of life in pushing on after the Armistice to give Canada the honour of having fired the last shot in the war.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 83, 20 March 1928, Page 5
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192LIBEL ACTION Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 83, 20 March 1928, Page 5
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