A TRAITOR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 119, 20 May 1916, Page 2

A TRAITOR.

AND HIS METHODS. It is a splendid tiling to know ttiat tlie British people,, as a whole, is intensely patriotic; but it is impossible to avoid having a few —a very few—traitors who will continually besmirch Britain’s fair name. They are her deadly enemies—all the more because they exploit their nationality as a proof of live disinterestedness of their motives, One such is Frank Harris the wellknown journalist. Harris is now in the United States, writing articles for the American papers—among them the German Fatherland. He is violently denouncing the part we have played in the war extolling German “’civilization” and German aims. His articles are widely read and quoted in Die United States, and the directors of the German Press Bureau have circulated them far and wide in order to prove tithe word of a “wellknown” Englishman. how “disgraceful” England’s conduct has been.

Out of the proceeds of these attacks on England he is now living in an expensive hotel suite in New York. This, indeed, is what we might well expect of the man who has revealied, by the Du Cros litigation, to have written articles and speeches for a rich politician and then blackmailed him with threats of an action, if he did not hand over exhorbitant sums is payment —as hush-money. In January, 1915, Frank Harris fled to Paris, an abscondisg bankrupt, Thence he made his way to America, where he was soon at the head of a virulent and anti-British campaign. In February, 1915, lie contributed an article to the Sun, which was headed as follows;

“Who will Win the War?” by Frank Harris well-known English author Carefully Weighing Important Factors. Evolves an Entirely New Theory Ref yarding the Besulft of the Conflict —Ex--'hiins V, lie Von J\luck Spared Paris—- ' Declaws Great Britain's Fmnbliiw Holds Italy Neutral, Therein- Making Germanv’s Ultimate Defeat Most Imnrobnble- —Derids the Allies’ Victory of the Marne.” X “THE ACT OF A CUP.” This article was quickly foltiwed by others, ali of which were hailed with the wildest delight in Berlin. “Americans,” Harris declares, with that complete contempt of truth so typical of his kind, no longer believe in the stories of German atrocities and German vandalism.” And one day, he says, they will understand “that the Germans have waged war like civilised human beings, that their soldiers have been ‘severe but not ruthless’ in Belgium, even when dealing with franestireurs, and have shown the conquered inhabitants almost invariably kindness and courtesy, and have taken care not to destroy the cathedrals asd works of art. ’ ’ ‘A prominnt writer has well said “he has gone behind his countrymen’s backs and with deliberate malice reviled them to an audience of foreigners—the act of a sneaking cur! ’’

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