New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1928, Page 2

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928, e e e e SUT IN CANADA BRINGS UP WAR Story of Canadian Troops at, Mons Told Coburg. Ont., April 18 u?»—Trm‘ of the $50.000 libel suit brought by Canada’s wartime commander, Gene | eral 8ir Arthur Currie, against two ! pewspapermen Lecause of a story attacking his war record, today en tered its third cay with the defense balked in efforts to introduce evi dence concerning the general's con- duet during the second battle of Ypres. i Colonel Jack Currie, former com- mander of the Toronto Highianders, was not permitted by Justics Rose to answer questions along this line put by counsel for W. T. H. Pre ton and F. W. Wilson, the de danta. The suit is based published ln Wiison's Port Hops Guide, and written by Preston, charging that Canadian Yves weru sacrificed at the battle of | Mons, on Arnis duy, for the| glorification of the Canadian head- | quarters and stait Frank Regan, defense counsel. | sttempted to draw from Colone) Currie testimony ax to the military | reputation of General Curric. When the testimony got onto the subject | ®f the second battle of Ypres, dur- | fng which 8ir Arthur wae comman der of the 2nd Canadian infantry Prigade, Justice Rose questioned its gelevancy. 4] press this matter,” Regan said "hecause the conduct of the plaintiff | was such as would not reflect any gredit on him. At this battle the | Btory got out—"' | Justice Intervenes | “Never mind what story got out,” Justice Rose interrupted. “Just say. some story got out.’ A lengthy legal argument follow- | #4, with Justice Rose deciding that evidence of a mistake or a poor @rder did not estpblish conclusively the reputation of a commander. Col. Currie, who was still on the vitness stand, interposed: “It is too bad not to be able to My a word in my own behalf.” ! ~*You are not being tried,” Justice | Rose replied. “I've been tried for 13 years,” Col. Curric said. | The witneas was threatened with | Ppunishment for contempt of court when he persisted in answeriug a forbidden question ag to the opinion Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia had voiced of Gen. Currie's reputa. tion. Justice Rose asked Col. Currie what was his own knowledge of the geputation borne by General Currie 88 a commander. “He had none. Like politicians, ®e had no reputation,” the witness apswered. Ordercd From sStand Col. Currie was dismissed, but was pecalled: in a few minutes. “Were you in any dugout—" Re- g8n began, but was interposed by Justice Rosc, who ordered the wit- ®wess from the stand The war diary of the §th Cana- @fan Infantry brigade was produced in which under detc of Nov. 9 cas- uslties for that and the two subse- quent days were grouped under one entry. Regan asked the witness, Col. Agcher Duguid, director of histor- an articte | paper, the on The full lusury of the radio fs reslized in the summer- time when good people get together with sparkling Dia- mond Ginger Ale on the tabie and a good song ringing clear. The pure Jamaica ginger that goes into Diamond Ginger Ale is aged two years —not six months. We do this to insure the mellowing pro- cess that contributes so much to the smoothness of Dia- mond Ginger Ales. Each ingredient in Dis- mond beverages the finest ebtainsble—pure fruit juices —orsnge, lemon and lime— end all blended by the for- mula made famous by Dia- mond so many years ago. s good—and good for you jeal scction, why this was so, and | Col. Duguid replicd be did not know. | Regan, however, asserted th m‘ this grouping of casualties \rw had been & determination on the! part of some one to keep from dis- closure the truy state of affuirs re- specting casualties on Nov. 11. Col. Duguid explained that the unit dairy was not an official cus- ualty list, but merely contained & record of what the writer saw. The general casualty list was then pro- duced which showed that on Nov. 11 one ofticer and 14 of other runk were wounded. Produces Copy Regan, however, prod of the diary of the Tth C fantry brigade which showed men wounded on Armistice Day, o greater total for the brigad: pointed out, than the offic ty list showed for the entire Cunu dian corps, Fourteen anadiun corps :d to having en bodies of Canadians in Mons on November 11, although in no did the witness report sceing more han three, MADELINE SMITH DIES Death of Scotch Woman Here in Old Age Recalls Murder of 1858, d a copy former m testy “Trial Glasgow, Scotland, April 18 (P— Memories of one of the most drama- | tic murder trials in the history of | an- | Madeline | Smith had died in the United States. | | Scotland were revived by the nouncement here that Just where her death occurred is not disclosed, but it {s believed to hd\c been in New York state. The trial, which was held at Edin- | burgh in 1857, aroused a tremendous sensation in the British and Ameri- can press, Madeline was accused of murdering her lover, an impecunious clerk from the channel islands, by poisoning his cup of coffec. She was mere girl of a prominent Glasgow | family, and noted for her beauty. ‘The prosecution fought desperate- ly to prove that the girl had handed the fatal beverage to the unhappy youth through a basement window of a house in Blythswood square, Glasgow. The jury returned the tch verdict of “not proven.’ Madeline left home soon after “hl‘ and for half a ecentury intimate friends knew she went to London and became the wife of a | professional man and had a large | | family. he was known as an ¢ emplary wife and mother. In her | old age she went to America. 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Mrs. Kresge won an interlocutory decrce in New York February 18. | “At that time (April, 1925)" the ! complaint says, “she took a Bible in her hand, shook it in the plaintifi's | (Mr. Kresge's) face and said: 1 swear to God if you don’t do what 1 want thers will be the higgest ex- posc—the biggest scandal you ever heard of—and you must get out by the first of May er 1 will have the lock changed as I did for Mr. Har- den.” Mr. Harden, it was explained. was Mrs. Kresge's first husband. | The wealthy chain store operator, | who gave Mrs. Kre securities | worth $3,000,000 before he married her in April, 1924, said it had be come plain to him that she had not arried him for love but rather to | obtain from him all the moncy she | could. 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