The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-18
MRS.. ASQUITA SUES
GLOBE; ASSERTS IT
CALLS HER TRAITOR
Ask, Court to stop Attacks on
Her rs PrO-German and Dis
grace to Her Sex.
PAPER PROMISES TO
WITHHOLD

,oxp2N. Dee. i1.-Mrs. Herbert H..
Asouith, wife of the Premier, appeared
), the chincery Court to-day and asked
q. an order to restrain the Globe, which
uo.n,,y rcsumed publication after dbcing
.,.nsndcd by the censor for attacks on
M. Government. from publishing alleged
upels against her.
Mrs. Asuuith's counsel said that for
IN, past fortnight the Globe has DELHI
lately pursued her with accusations Of
A,,oyal,y and OF association with Ger
man prisoners al bennington Hail.. The
statements did not mention Mrs. As
auth by name. bu. spoke Of "thc wife
a. Cabine; Minister" and sufficient
evidence was given, In the view OF the
counsel, to show that Mrs. Asquith was
the woman to whom reference was made.
'.she has been described as a traitor
and a disgrace to her SEX" her counse
van, ON, land She a been attacked In
the most opprobrious terms. These at
tack. were Systematically and malev-
identity maintained and were suspended
only after the writ had been issued"
other Attacks Made.
Continuing, the counsel said that the
suersecution OF Mrs. Asqutth" had been
eo,ng on for nearly u year.. having been
6eeun last spring In another newspaper.
"uhich the defendant doubtless would
say was Of a lower class than the Globe"
This other paper, he said. had to apollo
size publicly and to pay, at Mrs. As
ou.,h's request, fl00 $4,000 to the Red
Cross fund.
The same persons who disseminated
the alleged libels through the Globe, he
said. sent sheaves OF anonymous letters
% Mrs. .Asqulth, and ~inlputations against
be, we're made in social circles. A con.
isssion had been obtained. he said. from
one Of the parties &c these gross libels
which we're calculated to shake con-
Glsnce in the Administration"
The defendant, asked for Il postpone
snent, to which Mrs. Asquith's counsel
objected. Finally the newspaper UNDER
Nook to refrain from publishing anything
affecting the case and the court ad.
touraed the matter until Tuesday.
Mrs Asau.th figured with her STEP
daughter. Miss Violet Asauitn. as the
personalities on which William Watson
wrote his poem The Woman With the
$500 wi 80, >,r W..so, .nia .t,n,
y ras nnr.~a;, ~. Nrs Asor,.h.s
sscai har.r;s,i.. - ~ 800.
-. ~ h.r stendansb,sr rha ,a,ter
a..r.h.a hv h,r "a ..,ha voice ~ ~.
,smIiy wa. the suhiect 81 the i,nss.
"Mho sights the ~orthiest In the q
SsS SlSck.ns GOODNESS in its srave"
l..
.s Glabs u,on which Mrs Asnnith'a
mi, IL based are not known here and
\ n not known whether the original
attack was IN ihe form of an editorial
q 4. ietter to the editor. Coples of the
Globe u pecembe- . contain "A number
o. letters referring to a letter published
m the issue OF November 90 and signed
"A Patriot" indicating tnat this let
ter constituted the original attack OH
Mrs. Asquith In relation to her atten-
tons to German prisoners. This issue
y not availa Die here. Following arc
some of The letters published on Decem'
Der ::
IT Is unfortunate your correspondent
cannot Civ the name OF the Cabinet
minister's wife who thinks moro OF the
boches thar the men VINO are out al TN
front hghting to keep her from harm
and enabling her to live IN security aha
Iuxury. II Is an insult to every British
soldier fighting for the empire. more e.
pecially when we know how our prison
ere are treated. She Is q disgrace tc
England. and we know now why sc
many wealthy Boches are permitted tc
be at large. Truly the country IL IN
the hands Of the Boches. and II behOoVea