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Show IS GIVEN SIX MONTHS FOR INSULTING ARMY London Editor Is Punished for Writing Article Reflecting Upon the American Soldiers. By International News Service. t LONDON, April 20. Six months in jail was the sentence recently imposed here upon Bertrand Russell for an article written writ-ten by him in The Tribunal, insulting, it is alleged, the American army. Prosecutor Humphreys said the whole of the front page of the issue of the paper of January 3 was taken up by an article by RusselL The prosecution related re-lated to the following passage: The American garrison, which will, by that time, be occupying England and France whether or not they will prove efficient against the Germans will, no doubt, be capable of intimidating intimi-dating strikers, an occupation to which the American army is accustomed accus-tomed when at home. Sir John Dickinson, addressing Russell, Rus-sell, said: You have lost all sense of decency and fairness, and you have gone out of your way to insult by a deliberate and designed sneer the army of the great nation which is so closely allied al-lied to us by ties of affection and kindred a nation which has joined us to fight for the same Ideals of justice and freedom that have inspired in-spired us. Yours is a very despicable offense. It is worse; for though the sound sense or keen sense of humor, as Mr. Whlteley put it of the Americans Ameri-cans may treat your libel with the contempt it deserves, there are some people who would eagerly seize upon these false assertions and use them to injure the cause for which we have ( been devoting our time and treasure. It was pointed out Russell recently was fined $500 for a similar offense. WThen sentence was passed he appealed the case. Miss Joan Beauchamp, proprietress of The Tribunal, was fined ?300 and costs. |