The Pall Mall Gazette Scandals.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1462, 23 September 1885, Page 4

The Pall Mall Gazette Scandals.

"A MORALITY PARADE" IN HYDE PARK.

A New York Tribune's London cablegram of August 17, says : — The passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act remains the last pretext for continued publication of the filthy matter by which the Pall Mall Gasettehn.fi earned an infamous notoriety, but publication of this sort of literature continues, and agitation continues. Public meetings are called m Hyde Park by posters on walls and circulars, the text m both instances being indecent. The Archbishop of Canterbury lias published a. disavowal- of his alleged approval of the so-called revelations of the Gazette. The AttorneyGeneral is investigating the alleged case of abduction; of a girl by somebody connected with this business, but the Gazette daily fills its columns with accounts of what it calls' "New Crusades." "It has," says the dosnatch, " apparently renounced all hone of re^a'ninsr a respectable position." The Gazette's ''revelations " have been dramatised at Vienna. The play -is m five acts, and called lt Protect our Daughters." On Ansrust 22nd, a tremendous procession (called bj the Press tl a morality parade ") was made to Hyde Park, the number taking: part being estimated as high as 150.000. The affair was under the auspices of the temperance societies, Rood Templars, Band of Hone Lodges, Salvation Army, various trades arid labor societies, and Young Men's Christian Associat : on. One of the wagsrons m the procession carried 24 liftle girls dressed m white, holding aloft banners bearing the inscription, " Shall our innocents he slain ?"