The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-09
Turkey Awards Contract for
Construction Of Monster
Battleship
NEW LIBEL LAW WAN TED
The English Newspapers Want Bet
ter Protection Against Black
mailers.--The Present
Law Too Drastic.
Associated Press Special

Associated Press Special
London, Sept 9.-Turkey h
at last definitely awarded the co
tract for a battleship of the so-callc
'Dreadnought' type TO w. G. Arr
strong, Whttworth & Company,
Newcastle-on-Tyne and to Woke
Limited, the latter to furnish the a
mament The government reserve
the right of ordering another yess
at the same price.
The new battleship. it is said, wi
be the largest Warship in the worlt
The price to be paid is consderabl
higher than that at which the Betf
iehem Steel company of America i
conjunction with another Englis
firm offered to build the ships How
ever, as the Grand Vizier candid.
told a diplomat who was supporting
the tender of the American company
Turkey by placing the contract with
the successful tenderers viii obtain
compensation in other directions
which will more than make up for
the increased cost of the ship
II has not vet been disclosed of
what these compensations viii CON
sist. but it is generally understood
that the British minister at Constan-
tinoDIe was able to inform the Porte
that the acceptance of the Arm
strong tender might induce the Brit
tsh Government to look with a kind |
lier eye on the Turkish proposals /
for the settlement of certain ques- /
eions outstanding between the two /
countries. Among these were cues /
tons arising out of the steam boat
monopoly held by a British company
to operate steamers on Turkish riy-
ers; nOn-interference with Turkeys
plan jn Albania; and the loug-stand-
ing dispute over the building of /
Bagdad railway. On the latter sub
lect active negotiations are now pro-
ceedtng in the Turkish capital, with
good prospects of success and the
ultimate completion of the line
Besides the support of the Gov
eminent the British shipbuilders
have good press agents, and frequent
paragraphs appear in the London
papers in which it is intimated that
among other contracts that for the
building OF the CHILEAN warships is
to be given to England AS a mat
ter Of fact these contracts have not |
been let and it may be months be-
ore they are. American. British |
nd continental firms all have agents
n the Gillian capital and even be- 6
ore the fall of the late government
cry little progress had been made ,
owards the signing of the contracts
An effort is at last to be made to
'eGeye the newspapers of England
from some Of the evils they suffer
under the present Law Of libel Be
sides having TO pay many claims of
a Matchmaking character, Invariably |
when newspaper defends an action |
for libel the jury gives the claimant
heavy damages, very often against
the advice of the Judge To avoid
this SIR George Toulmin has intro
ducet a bin in the House of Com
mons which provides that if a judge
is satisfied that the alleged libel is
trivial and that the words complain
ed of have been published III good
faith ne may stay all proceedings,
unless the plaintiff gives security
r-r +-, 7olrrHart's costs.
Otaer provisions OF the bin are
that fair and accurate reports OF
public meetings. proceedings il
court and the finding Of the courts
although the finding be subsequent
~ varied. and any fair and bon;
fide comment thereon, shall b.
privileged AT present paper can
not comment on any verdict until
has reached the final court. by whic
time in many cases, all public inter
est in the matter has been lost
The House of Commons has los
one Of its oldest and most popula
figures. in the sudden death Of Co
Inns, the head-waiter Of the smokin
room He had charge of what
known as the Upper Smoking-roon
one Of the exclusive rooms int
which the members cannot intro
duce 5 stranger. Collins, an Iris
cockney. was one Of those quiet, "
obstrusiye servants of the old schoo
who knew the wants Of all his client
and took them THEW accustome
drink as soon as they entered tf
room He. too, was full Of info
nation and Chancellor Lloyd Geors
once said that when he wished
know what the House Of Common
was going to do he went to the be-
Informed man-Collins
One of the interesting features
the PROCESSION of the Gorseed Bare
70 the Mystic Circle at the Eisted'