ENGLAND SCARED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 22 January 1913, Page 8

ENGLAND SCARED.

o 1 SUFFRAGETTES AND GERMANS. Dr. C. McCarthy, of Melbourne, who has been on a world’s tour, in describing his impressions, said that the women of England were suffering from hysteria, and the men from blue

funk. The former were mad over the suffragette question, whilst the latter were on the tiptoe of expectation of the arrival of the German array. The country was in a state of turmoil. The national conscience was oblique, and its sight did not seem to get beyond suffragettes and Germans. The whole nation was suffering from a severe fit of hysteria, but so far as ho could see there was no reason for such perturbation. He had passed through Germany on his way to England, visiting the important centres, and the feeling towards Great Britain seemed to be cordial.

“I came a good deal into contact with the Home Rule question,” added the doctor, “and from what I could

ascertain in various centres, English will be ridiculed in the eyes of the world until the question - is disposed of. They pretend that it is a difficult problem to deal with, and say that there has been no instance to equal it previously. In my opinion the opposition comes from the Ulster minority, who are afraid that if Home Rule is granted they will lose the plums, and the people who should have control will get into power.”

Dr. McCarthy added that Australia is not known very well in other parts of the world, though in Japan it was a live question.