BERNARD SHAW’S LATEST.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 17

BERNARD SHAW’S LATEST.

Curt Reply to Interviewer. RECENT PUBLICITY RESENTED. (United Prea» Association—By Elictr** Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received March 1, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 28. *Mr Bernard Shaw who has been ill with influenza, is apparently not too ill to see what some newspapers have been saying, and to-night ho made the following official statement: “Thd speciaL reports from special corresr pondents 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 of attempting to assassinate me by ringing in tho dead of a frozen night to announce the news of my own illness, a week after everybody else knew, and ask whether I would like to say anything about it. But for the urgent necessity for getting back to bed, before 1 caught a chill, I should have had more to soy to them 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 one only. She is a nurse. But the alleged persistent resistance to calling in practitioners and specialists in ascetic dieting, in anticipation of my inclusion in tho Honours List by a Government which did not dare allow' my speech, on the occasion of my seventieth birthday, to be broadcasted, and nil the rest of the blundering twoddle, are inventions of needy and desperate men, in order to extract money from editors too heavily preoccupied to be critical.