JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 52, 17 October 1914, Page 5

JOTTINGS.

Word has been received that Dr. Newton Matthews, son of Mr and Mrj

Matthews, Fitzroy, who has beer studying at Home for several years, has been accepted for service with tlu R.A.M.O. with the rank of mounted lieutenant. *

Lord Wellesley, who is attached tc the British Flying Corps, and is i descendant of the Duke of Wellington and the Due d’Elchingen, a descendani of Marshal Ney, have met under tiw Allies’ flag at the British staff head quarters.

There is every reason to believe that Mr Horace Hunt, the gifted Wellington pianist, is being held as a prisoner in Berlin. His sister, Mrs Strickland, has received a postcard from her brother, dated Berlin, August 12, written apparently in good spirits, and wishing her a happy Christmas, New Year and Easter! Mrs Strickland was struck ,by the absence of any remarks expressive of bis feelings or desire to bo safe in England, but, it is well known, Mr Hunt would not bo allowed to write anything in that vein. Mr Hunt left about twe years ago to complete his musical studies in tho Old World, and has been resident in Germany for over s year.

If any doubt could possibly vom ait as to the justice of the British cause in the present war, it lias been removed by the attitude of Mr Iveir Hard;?, Wo (Daily Mail) can read no othei meaning into his questions in thf House of Commons than that he wish, ed his country disloyally to abandon its pledges and from sheer cowardm* to forsake a small and weak State it th© hour of its agony. We fire convinced that ho spoke only for himself. Socialists in this country have rallied to the British Government as faithful, ly as the Irish Nationalists. Mi Keir Hardie stands alone, determined to satisfy his inordinate vanity bj making capital out of the public misfortune and attracting to himself attention which his real standing in his party and the country does not for a moment deserve. In somewhat simi lar circumstances Abraham Lincolr was attacked by one Valladigham foi carrying on the war against slavery: Lincoln, of all nineteenth centurj statesmen, the wisest and best, devis. ed an original method of satisfying his critic’s desire for fame. He gavj orders that Valladigham should be conducted to the enemy’s lines and there handed over to the enemy whose cause he had so warmly espoused. So Mr Keir Hardie might be forwarded to Ostend and sent upon a tour of inspection to Brussels. The Gentian wireless service wotild meantime keep liia country advised of his doings.