The Archive · 1920

Empire Day at the Cafe Parisien

Amateur Entertainer's Claim At H, M. Supreme Court on Thursday, before His Honour Judge Skinner Turner, a legal point in connexion with the libel action E. A. Dearn Captain F. Davies wae heard and decided.

SraeMeNt oF C1ars.

(1) The plaintiff is a salesman in the employ of Brewer & Ca., Ld, No. 31 Nanking Road, Shanghai, booksellers and stationers. The defendant is the managing direc-for or proprietor of the business known as the Cafe Parisien, No. 2 Avenue Edouard VII, Shanghai.

(2) The defendant, on or about May 23, 1920, falsely and maliviously caused to be printed and published in a daily newspaper publishing in Shanghai, called the "China Press," of the plaintiff, an advertisement in the following words:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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