RENEGADE ENGLISHMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1918, Page 8

RENEGADE ENGLISHMEN.

EVEN SXEERED AT BY THE IIUXS. Among the myriad pens that have been 'Hoped in'gall to vilify England and distori history in the service of Germany during this war none is more notorious than that of the British apostate Houston Stewart '.''lmnrhoi-lain. This man, who has so dishonored both his own and his country's name, has now. however, (o hear himself sneered at by the German papers as '-a renegade and a German of yesterday. 1 '

The I-'injikir.it Hazel i,. mocks at him for lils obsiyjvtiftus salaaming to everytiling (ioimuii, and assures him that it ivo,n)d have been more scemlv for an Englishman in his painful position to have wrapped his face in htf mantle and (o have held his peace durim; the war. ■'Tliis dilettante, mid renegade has inst a n «w pamphlet warning (ierrnuny by the example of England against the introduction of democracy. "lake all his works." gays the journal, "tins new puhlioaiinn is well enough written, hut. like them, it is, f„o. a flash v thing and without anv deeper value. In the course of ]-,",s remarks the writer allows himself to disparage the motives nl eertain Cermans who think rtfflVrenily from himself. Rut let this renegade rememher that he is not in a position to ca?t on the character o,f any

Orinan in tlie world, lip tliis German who lie may/' lluivl must it he to ho classed lowor Hmti (In. lowest Tliln. lint TTerr flmmtwIdiii lias made his bed and now must lie o» it