| − | been quite justified in asking for a change of venue, but he preferred to fight the issue on the ground where the article complained of, was circulated. Under the circumstances, therefore, the verdict is more conclusive than if the trial had taken place in any other part of the Dominion.
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| − | "The whole incident is an illustration of the text, (Matthew 12:36) "That every idle word that men shall speak they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgement". The defence as it unfolded itself showed that in writing his fantastic editorial, "Mons", Mr. Preston was speaking of matters with which he was personally unacquainted, on the basis of wild misstatements made by the late Sir Sam Hughes in 1919 when he gave every evidence of being n mental and physical decline, and when he had become a political Ishmaelite. As a military or historical document, Mr. Preston's article was not more important and certainly less amusing than a once famous recitation "How Bill Adams Won the Battle of Waterloo".
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