PUBLIC THEATRICALS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2854, 19 August 1916, Page 7

PUBLIC THEATRICALS

Sir, —After the uncomfortably minatory things said in tho British Parliament and other British places latoly on the precautions proper to be taken to prevent any more U'kst Murderers pirouetting .petulant, under the provocation of fancied slights, and, in the process of gyrating, committing wholesale rape and killing, it was to be expected that tho particular First Murderer at present in the limelight would take notice. But it was hardly a be expected that he would take notice so sooii. It was hardly dignified for a codirector of the universe to rush to print, incontinent. He might have waited a breathing space before remai kmg on the curiousness of British theories (see .the cable message you publish to-day, 17tli), if only to show how easily slander may be beaten down by bin particular weight of metal imposed leisurely. . Do you think, sir, that he begins to see how short this shrift is— he knows more than wo do about it, after all —and that he knows that it ho is to say anything placatory effectively he had better say it now?—] an;, etc., X. Wellington August IV, 1!)J0.