Mrs. Stan Harding, woman jour-neiist, who in 1921 was sentenced to death in Russia for alleged espionage, was the plaintiff in a libel action which was settled in the King's Bench Division in London recently on terms including payment of £1000 as damages. Mr. Justice Charles approved the settlement, states the "Glasgow Herald."
The action arose out of a book of memoirs entitled "Born for Trouble," in which it was alleged the author, Mrs. Marguerite Harrison, made false statements about Mrs. Harding which nearly cost the plaintiff her life, The defendants were Victor Gollancz, Lid. publishers; the Camelot Press. Ltd.: and Mrs, Marguerite Harr Mr. G. O. Slade, for Mrs. Hard aid the action had been settled as atween his client and the defendant publishers and printers, It has not teen settled as against Mrs, Harrison, Mr. Slade added. She will be pursued with the utmost rigour of the w when she can be found. I understand she is at present in America Mr. Slade said that in the book "Born for Trouble" Mrs Harrison described her experiences as a Secret Service agent first in Germany, and iberi in Russia. In certaín passages, among other untrue statements about Harding, she repeater the false political charges which already ought Mrs, Harding a long term of impziso ment and the narrowest possible escape from death when visiting Ri a newspaper Cor-asia as respondent
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