CARICATURED THE KING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 27 December 1912, Page 5

CARICATURED THE KING.

A “DISLOYAL” CARTOON. (Independent Cable Association.) London, December 20. Mr Will I)yson ( the well-known Australian caricaturist, is in grave danger of being accused of leso majeste. The Unionist newspapers in England declare that he has grossly insulted King George, and are screaming with, rage at his “disloyalty.” Following upon the case of Driver Knox, whose dismissal from the Great Eastern Railway Company on a charge of drunkenness led to a strike, a cartoon appeared in the new Lalwnir daily, the ‘Labour Herald,’ drawn by Will Dyson. .

The cartoon depicts the King expressing astonishment at the. news, as disclosed in the Knox case, that any of his subjects drink anything so common as rum. It was stated in evidence before Mr. Chester Jones, the Magistrate, who re-heard the charge against the. enginedriver, that Knox had taken two tots of rum while off duty, hut was not intoxicated while driving the engine, and never had been the worse of liquor while doing his work. The man was reinstated, and the strike ended. In the picture drawn by Will Dyson the King is supposed to be-say-ing: “I never came across any shortage of rum.” It is this connection of Royalty with rum that has raised the ire of the Unionist journals, and leading articles have been devoted to a condemnation of the Labour paper, the artist, and the idea.