We must offer our compliments to the Daily Mail on
having, in the course of performing what it evidently considered to be a necessary public service, taken the risk of a very serious libel action, and on having emerged triumphant. On Monday the High Court dismissed the libel action brought by the proprietors of Yadil as they had persistently failed to state their case. The Daily Mail, it will be remembered, last summer published an article by that great expert, Sir William Pope, discrediting Yadil. He stated that it contained 95 per cent. water, 4 per cent. glycerine, 1 per cent. formaldehyde (which the Ministry of Health has denounced as a poison) and a smell of garlic. Practically no garlic (apart from the smell) could be detected. If there is a case for Yadil, as there may be, we have been deprived, through the failure of the Yadil proprietors themselves, of the advan- tage of knowing what it is. The Daily Mail, having formed a definite conclusion, had the courage to state it and to stand by it. That is the sort of action by news- paper proprietors which we must all admire.
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