LONDON NEWSPAPERS MISLED
LIBEL ACTIONS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 20th March, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, 25th March.
Last month M. Jonescu, who was Prince Carol's host when the latter visited England, was awarded £12,000 damages against the "Evening Standard" for libel. Tho "Evening Standard" lodged an appeal, but announced in Court to-day that it would consent to dismissal of the appeal with costs, and expressed regret that annoyance had been caused to M Jonescu.
A similar action against the 'Daily Express" has been settled, defendants paying a sum in compensation and giving an indemnity for costs. Defendant's counsel stated that it was now recognised that the source of information which inspired the articles alleging that if. Jonescu was not a Rumanian but a Pole, was "something worse than merely unrelial le."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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