ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1920, Page 3

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

RECENT STATEMENTS RESENTED. l)y Telegraph.—Press Assn.- Copyr'ght. Melbourne, July 20. Mr. W. M. Hughes, at Bendigo, fiercely denounced the recent American utterances of Archbishop Mannix, incidentally mentioning that the Government was appointihg a High Commissioner in America to reflect Australian sentiment.

Referring to Archbishop Mannix, Mr. Hughes, at Bendigo, said he wanted the American people to know that Archbishop Mannix did not represent Australia. If he said his utterances were supported by the people of Australia, he said what was not true.

He added that Archbishop Mannix's speeches in America stamped him as a man who had gone out in the guise of an Archbishop to foment war between England and America. He was a man whose mission was political in essence. Archbishop Mannix was a declared Sinn Feiner, and was using his high position in the church for purposes of political agitation. Ho wanted America to understand that Australia was part and parcel of the British Empire, and whoso hand is against the Empire is against us. We wanted to be friendly aim do business with America. Realising that her destiny and ours coincide in the Pacific, we wanted her help in the Pacific and realised how important it was tliUt the true sentiment ot Australia should be represented in America.