CARICATURED THE KING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 189, 30 December 1912, Page 4

CARICATURED THE KING.

WILL DYSON IX TROUBLE. unionist papers angry at " DiK LOYAL " CARTOON. London, December 20. Mr. Will Dyson, the well-known Australian caricaturist. is in grave danger of being accused of lese majeste. The Unionist newspapers in England declare that lie 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 Labor daily, the Labor Herald, drawn by Will Dyson.

The cartoon depicts the King expressing astonishment at the news, as disclosed in the Knox ease, that any of his subjects drink anything so common as rum.

It was stated in evidence before Mr. Chester Jones, the magistrate who reheard the charge against the enginedriver, that Knox had taken two tots of rum while off duty, but was not intoxicated while driving his engine, and never had been the worse for 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 saying: "I 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 Labor paper, the artist, and the idea.