APPALLING APATHY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2480, 5 June 1915, Page 15

APPALLING APATHY

1 BISHOP SADLIER ON THE ENGLISH MIDDLE-CLASS. Bishop Sadlier, qf Nelson, who left New Zealand in September last to pay a business visit to England, arrived Tom London ■ via Sydney _by ihe Manuka. During tie time as spent at Home the Bishop travelled ill over England giving lectures on shurch work in Australia and New Zealand. What struck Mm most in. conlection with the conditions prevailing it Home was the appalling apathy of he middle-classes. Judging from their node of life, he said, one would never magine that England was at war. ITiey lever appearod to be conscious of how erious the position is, but took their 'leasuros in the most unconcerned man- • er as if it wore no business of theirs. If courso there were exceptions, but hat was how the position struck him. lusiness was going on as usual every'here—there was lethargy as far as bat was concerned. The Church had one splendid work both at Home and mong_ the soldiers at the front. The crk in connection with the chaplains ngaged at the front was splendidly rganised. He met several English Japlains who had been employed on le Continent, and one who had been cated at Comjnegne, a place the Gerans had occupied, and they all stated lat their work was incessant—night id day, and who could wonder at it ith the fierce battles that were being iught almost daily? ] Bishop Sadlier visited Scarborough ] ! t,er the German bombardment and 1 spected the various places which had iffered by the bursting bombs. He ings back with him some of the scraps, steel —bits of the German bombs that ?re fired into the town. It was very interesting to make the ssage of the Suez Canal, Though ne of the Australian or New Zealand oops were left in that zone the wfrole lgth'of the canal was protected with 30i)s —Indian regiments, and some of o Lancashire regiments. All appeared bo quiet in that locality at present.