The action brought by Mrs. Asquith against the owners of
the Globe came before Mr. Justice Peterson on Tuesday, when the defendants agreed to pay £1,000 to Mrs. Asquith in respect of the libel, and to indemnify her against any expenses to which she had been put. It may be remembered that slanderous and untrue suggestions had been made in the correspondence columns of the Globe that Mrs. Asquith had been sending food and other things to German officers, prisoners of war at Donington Hall. At an applica- tion to the Court for an injunction in December last the defendants expressed their sincere and unqualified regret for the libel, and a farther apology was made on Tuesday. Mrs. Asquith, however, very properly went into the box and herself denied on oath-that she had ever sent gifts to, or communicated with, prisoners at Donington Hail.
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