TARRED AND FEATHERED
MAN WHO WROTE OFFENSIVE VERSES ABOUT SOLDIERS. Melbourne, December 8. J. K. M'DQiiga.ll, nn ex-incuiber of the Labour Party in the Houso of Bepresentatives, who hud admitted writing offonsivo verses about soldiers, was seized by a party of returned men at his home near Ararat They stripped and tarred and feathered him, and released him in tlio crowded streets of Ararat.—Press Assn. (Eec. December 8, 7.25 p.m.) • / Melbourne, December 8. Sl'Doiieall, the man wilio was tarred and feawiered, wrote a poem nt the time of the Boer war, but during' the present war it has been frequently republishwl. It refers' to soldiers as "sordid killers who would murder for a fee," am', 1 Hie verso adds— "Hog-eouled and dirty-handed, Yd sell yourselves for gain, And stand forever branded Red felons after Cain." —Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 64, 9 December 1919, Page 7
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137TARRED AND FEATHERED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 64, 9 December 1919, Page 7
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