F. M. B. FISHER.
SEVERELY HECKLED AS TO HIS WAR SERVICE.
By Telegraph.—Press Ansn.—Copyritfit. Received Aug. 28, 8 p.m. London, Aug. 27,
Mr. Henderson rejected Mr. F. M. B. Fisher's challenge to a public debate on the Russian statements. Mr. Henderson says: "I won't waste time over a man who calls me 'a damned liar of a Bolshevik' and then asks me to disprove my statements."
Mr. Fisher is being severely heckled at meetings. He was asked what he did in the great war. He replied: "I gave up my Ministerial position in New Zealand and came to England." Interrupter: "But not on thirteen pence a day!" Mr. Fisher said that owing to the surplus of officers lie could not secure a commission. Lord Kitchener advised him to serve his country in an administrative capacity. Ho had been working in the Propaganda Department.—Aua.-N.Z Cable Assn.
Received Aug. 28, f1.40 p.m. London, Aug. 28,
M. Kerensky, who was Premier during Mr. Henderson's visit to Russia, ridicules the suggestion that the latter was a pacifist or a Bolshevik.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1919, Page 5
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