DISLOYAL STATEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1918, Page 4

DISLOYAL STATEMENTS.

AN ALIEN LET OFF LIGHTLY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Nig Tit. At the Police Court to-day Adolph Gotlieb Pischer was charged with publishing an utterance indicating disloyalty as follows: "The Britsh are liars. They lied in South Africa. The British will never win the war. Germany will nerer. go down; she will wiu. I say the Britisn would do worse things than the Germans, and have 4one so, but it will never be known until after the war. They we getting what they deserve." Evidence was given to the effect that statements and letters of a similar tenor were made in a boardinghoiue. Accused said he was a Swiss, and had been in the Dominion forty years. He had eight children, and always enjoined loyalty to Britain. Two song were at the front. He denied the statements attributed to him. He had lived in Garmany from ten years of age until he was fifteen. His wife, who had deserted him, was a German. Accused wa» fined £25 Magistrate Hunt remarking that the case was not so bad as if the utterance had been a public plao* gnclr as »