MR BERNARD SHAW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 79, 2 March 1929, Page 9

MR BERNARD SHAW.

CORRESPONDENTS’ FICTIONS. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Feb. 28. Mr George Bernard Shaw, tho celebrated author, who has been ill with influenza, is apparently not too ill to see what some newspapors have been saying about him. To-night. Mr Shaw made the following official statement: —“These special reports from special correspondents are 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 at attempting to assassinate me by ringing in tho dead of the frozen night to announce the news of my own illness a week after everybody else knew, and to ask whether I would like to say anything about it. But for the urgent necessity for getting back to bed beforel caught a chill, I should have had more to say to them than they cared to hear. Instead of haying 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 specialists in ascetic dieting, in anticipation ot rny inclusion in the honours list by the Government, which did not. dare to allow my speech on the occasion of niv seventieth birthday to be broadcast, and alt tho rest ot the blundering twaddle, are inventions of needy and desperate men, in order to extract money from editor* too heavily preoccupied'to be critical. 1 '