“G.B.S."

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 5

“G.B.S."

REPORTS ON HIS ILLNESS. A VITRIOLIC ATTACK.. lAuetrailan and N.Z. Press Asseoiatieo.) (Received 1, 2.5 p.m ) London Feb. 28. Mr. Bernard Shaw, who has bean ill with influenza is apparently not too ill to see what some newspapeis have been saying. To-night he made the official statement: “Special reports from special correspondents nro inept fictions. I would not say a word to hurt the brazen liars who have concocted them but they might at least have stopped short of attempting to assassinate me by ringing in the dead of night to announce the news of my illness a week after everybody else knew and to ask whether I would like to say anything about it. But for .the urgent necessity fo getting back to bed before I caught a chill I should have had more to say to them than they cared to hear. “Instead of having the advice of half a dozen members of the medical profession I am being completely cared for by one, only she is a nurse. My alleged persistent resistance to calling in practitioners and specialist* in ascetic dieting in anticipation of inclusion in the Honours list by a Government which did not dare to allow mv speech on the occasion of my seventieth birthdav to be broadcasted and all the rest of that blundering twaddle, are inventions of needy and desperate men in order to extract money from editors too heavily preoccupied to be critical.’’