LIBEL ACTIONS
LONDON, June 14. Dr Robert Bell, the exponent of a system of treating cancer by diet' and ■without an operation, was awarded £2OOO damages and costs in his libel action against the British Medical Association and Dr E. F. Bashford, principal of the Imperial Cancer Research Institute, for alleging in the British Medical Journal that Dr ! Bell was a quack. Many leading doctors gave evidence, and while most of them disagreed with Dr Bell's syetem they said it was worthy of consideration. MELBOURNE, June 17. The hearing of an action brought by Arci-jishop Clarke against John Norton, editor of the newspaper Truth, claiming £ouoo damages, has been commenced. The alleged libel was contained in an article dealing with the case of Canon Nash wherein the Archbishop was «tigmatised as a nightman, a pestilent parasite, an inquisitor, and an Anglican Anarchist, and was challenged to meet the writer in a court of law.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 26
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154LIBEL ACTIONS Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 26
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