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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 2 November 1915, Page 4

There was only one case of bank- I ruptey in the Wellington district dur- | in" the past month. So far the record this year'is thirteen. At a lecture delivered in Wellington, Mr. J. Thorn, of Palmerston North, dealt with the Harmsworth press and its influence upon international politics. Nine-tenths of the cablegrams from Great Britain, he said, were simply the carefully selected editorial opinions of the Northcliffe press, which in no way reflected the opn'or. of British democracy, as a whole, but rather that of a reactionary and dangerous section of the community. Take the editorial opinions of the Harmsworth newspapers upon the Fashoda incident, said Mr. Thorn, and place them side by side with their eulogies of the Kaiser nine months before the war broke out, and one would see at ■ once what unreliable material this so--1 called public opinion was comprised of. Both during the late South African war and recently, the public had found that the cablegrams iron* Great Britain were unreliable, and he asked whether the Now Zealanders “were again to be jockeyed into a false position by the doctored cablegrams from the Harmsworth press.