Libel actions have been coming thick and fast lately. Here
is part of a fortnight's crop. A daily paper, to illustrate an article on unchaperoned holidays, had found a photograph of a married lady cycling with a lady friend . and, excising the friend, had substituted a gentleman ; the married lady got £200 damages. Some six or seven papers had reported a case in which various allegations were made against the holder of a massage establishment,. without giving adequate publicity to the completeness of the answers to the charges and the fact that the renewal of her licence was granted ; damages -varying from £300 to a farthing were given against .the papers in question. Two papers had published reports- of a main- tenance order case against a dentist who complained that an impression was falsely created by the report that he was a friend of certain notorious persons whose acquaintance would do him no credit ; he was given a farthing damages against each. A weekly journal was sued by two stage illusionists for stating that they had improperly disclosed the secret of their feats. They got £900 between them.
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