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Show SUES MAYOR MITCHEL FOR $400,000 DAMAGES - NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Damages aggregating aggre-gating $4iK)4000 were demanded of Mayor John P. Mitchel in a suit for libel filed against him today by William Bullock, director of the bureau of city inquiry, an organization whose avowed purpose is to watch over the expenditure of public pub-lic money and the conduct of municipal affairs. The alleged libelous statements, which the complaint says were forty in number, and on each, of which 510,000 Is asked, were printed in New York newspapers during the recent mayoralty campaign as answers by Mayor Mitchel to statements made by Bullock in criticism criti-cism of the policies of the municipal administration. |