The Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday, May 25, 1895
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YORKSHIRE ECHOES.
Fear of the libel laws does not seem to animate the Paris Figaro. Lord Alfred Douglas wrote to the editor the other day saying -" I demand an apology for the lies you have written against me in your journal a propos of the affair of my father, the Marquess of Queensberry. I have been in France for a fortnight, and I regret extremely that it was not I, but my brother, Lord Douglas of Hawick, who corrected the Marquess of Queensberry." The Figaro prints the letter; and thinks it only necessary to add the comment, "What a charming family!"