CANADIAN COMMANDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20355, 12 March 1928, Page 9

CANADIAN COMMANDER

SIR ARTHUR CURRIE. SUIT FOR ALLEGED LIBEL. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) OTTAWA, March 10. (Received March 11, at 5.5 p.m.) A message from Cobourg, Ontario, states: —“ We wer e through Mons and on the other side before the armistice was signed, and yet I am accused of sacrificing the Ijves of Canadians to take the city. Nothing could be more false,” declared Sir Arthur Currie on arriving here to attend the examination in connection with the 50,000d0l suit for alleged libel he has launched against F. W. Wilson, publisher of the Port Hone Guide, and_W. T R. Preston, the author of the article, which was published in June, 1927, and alleged that there had been useless sacrifice of human life in order that the Canadian headquarters’ staff might have the honour of saying ‘‘ the Canadians fired the last shot in the war and captured the last German entrenchments.” “ Not only was there no useless sacrifice, but all the Canadians did was to straighten out the line and get a good nlace to kick off from before the armistice became effective,” declared Kir Arthur Currie, who added that he had difficulty in bolding the troops back.—A, and N.Z. Cable.