G.B.S. DISLIKES SICK-BED STORIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 9

G.B.S. DISLIKES SICK-BED STORIES

COBBESPONDENTS’ INEPT FICTIONS. BLUNDERING TWADDLE OF DESPERATE SCRIBES. United Press Association —By Eleetrie Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 28.

Mr. George Bernard Shaw, who has boen ill with influenza, is apparently not too ill to see what some newspapers have been saying. To-nigbt, ho made an 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 the doad of the frozen night to announce the news of my own illness a week after everybody elso knew and ask whether I would like to say anything about it. “But for the urgent necessity for getting back to bed before. I caught a chill, I should have had more to say to thorn 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 ono only—she is a nurse. “My alleged persistant resistance to calling in practitioners and specialists in ascetic dieting, in anticipation of my inclusion in the honours list by the government, which did not dare to allow my spocch on tho occasion of my seventieth birthday to be broadcasted and all tho rest of. the blundering twaddle are inventions of needy and desperate men, in order to extract money from editors too heavily preoccupied to be critical.”