THE ENEMY WITHIN
PLOT TO DESTROY THE EMPIRE.
Mr. T. "Henley, M.L.A., who is engaged in patriotic war work m England, has written to Mr. J. H. Wise, ALUA., Sydney, ft long loiter, from;• which the following is taken:- 1 •*.• -i "Prussian military, .autocracy, witji us back against Die wall, id ljouiid l« (lie hard,-but it must be done, to deatn, or life for freedom-loving Britons- will not be worth living.- Sometimes I fancy I Bee in the hellish frightfillness of Hun methods and prodigal wasto nf .human life by German generals a sign of deathlike violence expending it=p|f in the throes of a dying agony. 1 hope it is so. Depend upon it, the tigh!?rwe grip the vitals of the vicious briitos and lwTbarons instigators and perpetrators of ten.thousand infnmie's, tlie inorp terrible will he the struggle, and more frightful will his niflthods become. The HohenKollerus are in strong alliance with the Recrot organisations that ore known to he- woricins for'the. downfall of Hie British Empire, and the destruction of free democratic institutions. Boloism in various forms draws its life blood from many sources, and thrives on the free soil of our own country. Wo can beat the German every Mine on the battlnfield, but Hie real nueniv within the gate must be dealt with. They are clothed, in many tjiiises;- they are fighting Germany's battles unite a* desperately. though not even ns hmioiirnblv. ns jlit- Huns on the nroclairied liatt.li'fipld. It was Jiot ,tho force of arms that defeated Russia; or later p.iuFml the volii"tary,. surrender of «o man" T.Mians. What was it, then? Look around. Jlfnlte close observation pf l}ie o'lnniy nt homo sis well as abroad. Our boys must not give their lives in \-iiin; tin's jimst bo n wpr to the cl»arl finish: the tvin-nipni foro»s of. ,nnrii>nt antqerncy must he dealt with now. Whenever wft fii'l lcroiyn spnra''sc-pd bed= of )ialio"al di°'oyalty they uhonUl te torn up at one , ,"
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 9
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325THE ENEMY WITHIN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 9
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