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Show TOKlllIli London Globe Says It Is Sorry .That Libelous Articles Arti-cles Were Published. LOXDOX, Doe. 21, .12:17 p. m. The ease of Mrs. Herbert H. Asquith, wife of the premier, against the Globe was resumed in chauccry court today, having boeu continued from last f'naay The court granted Mrs. Asquith the injunc-tion injunc-tion tor which she asked to restrain the U obe from the publication of articles which she alleged are libelous. At the hearing last week, counsel for Mrs. Asquith As-quith said she had been accused bv the Globe of disloyalty and of associa-tion associa-tion with German prisoners, and had been described as a traitor aud a disgrace dis-grace to her sex. The only answer made bv the Globe snicetlie hearing last week' was an affidavit af-fidavit It filed by the manager to the etlect that he knew notliiug"about the matter. ''There is mil u tl-i.l,,,.. i-- : this libel,'- snid Mrs. Asquith 's counsel. "Mrs. Asquith has never been in Don-unigton Don-unigton hall (in which German prisoners are confined;, nor had auv communication communica-tion whatever with any 0f its inmates." .Attorney Duke, ci.u'nsel for Mrs s-quith, s-quith, complained that there has been persistent per-sistent circulation of reports attributing to her disloyalty to the national cause aud heartless association with prisoners ol hostile belligerents. He read a scries ol let-torn that appeared in the Globe which, without naming the plaintiff, contained such expressions as -'slio is a disgrace to Kiigl.nnl," v know win-si. win-si. ninny - Undies' are allowed to be a I large." "Truly Hie cninlrv is hi the hands ol' -Bodies. " "We 'don't want traitors in our innermost council." The attorney declared the attack was most outrageous and of must serious public gravity, Jt was ,1. -signed to ; strike at the confidence of the couutrv in the government and inspire outsider's with the opinion that (Ireat Britain's foes might hope to prcwiil, he add'-d. The whole business constituted a long scries of malevolent fabrications, he asserted. ihe attorney read an affidavit bv Mrs. Asquith stating that never in her Jife had she horn in Domiiiiston hall, and that there nas not the slightest ground for the suggestion that she had ever supplied anything to its inmates. She had no doubt that the publications referred to her. A friend had spoken to her on the subject and she had received re-ceived grossly allusive and insulting letters. let-ters. " Counsel for the Globe expressed reeret and apologized in behalf' of the publishers, pub-lishers, attributing the publication of the lelteis to disorganization, resulting from the recent susoensinn of tlu- paper. I The court granted the inju n.-t ion. |