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Show OLDEST OF LIBEL SUITS. One In England Has Been In Court fer Nearly a Century. There Is a libel caso botweeti the postofflco authorities and the Times standing unheard for nearly 100 years. It soms that In S07 the Times bitterly bit-terly attacked the postofflce. and the occasion of Its attack was as follows: In theso days the postal authorities acted not merely as carriers of letters let-ters and the like, hut there was a news agency In connection with the department, and this news agency charged the sum of JL'ltm to each newspaper In the kingdom for the supply of a brief summary of foreign news dally. In order to encourage this side of their business the heads of the postofflco of that lime con-1 colved the brlU'ant notion of delaying foreign newspapers In order that nows services might not suffer from competition. This went on for a time, until tho Times got to hear of It, and , a bitter and a not undeserved attack was the consequence. The postofflco roplied by the service of a writ for libel, nnd It was consldored to he desirable to say nothing more about It. But the function of supplying the summary of news was soon discontinued discon-tinued by tho department. |