ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 5

ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN.

IN THE UNITED STATES. j New York, January 27. In furtherance of their ceaseless anti-British campaign, all the Hearst papers say editorially: "If it was Daniels who told Sims we would just as soon fight the British as the Germans, he spoke like a real American. One of the most distasteful things done by Mr. Wilson was the selection of Sims to command our fleet in European waters. Most of us felt that there were plenty of officers, American in birth and sentiment, fit to command without selecting one of British birth' (in Canada), who never lost an opportunity of exalting the British Crown. We do not forget iSiifis's speech in London in 1910, in which lie insulted the ordinary decencies of international relations, by promising that if England got into a real war, she could rely on our last dollar and last drop of bloodHe was reprimanded, and should have been cashiered. Nor do the thousands of citizens of Irish descent forget the insulting remarks meted out to their kind iu Ireland by Sims. The instructions will not draw any tears from real American eyes, for that is just the way real Americans think about it. We have had too much of this pro-British intriguing in our affairs, wiien it begins to thrust its fingersfcinto our navy —our only defence against, British Imperialism—Americans will speak so clearly that none will misunderstand."

[A recent cable message reported that Admiral Sims had stated that the author of the "wool-ovcr-your eyes" remarks was Admiral Benson, chief of the naval staff.]