LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1921, Page 5

LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

THE BOGUS INTERVIEW. FURTHER DETAILS. THE KING AND PREMIER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, July 30. The interview which Lord Northcliffe repudiated ran substantially as follows:The King and Mr. Lloyd George were conversing, and the King was said to have asked, “Are you going to shoot all the people in Ireland?” “No, your Majesty,” replied Mr. Lloyd George. “Well, then.” said the King, “you must come to some agreement with them. I cannot have any people killed in this manner.” London, July 30, The alleged Northcliffe interview with the New York Times appeared only in a small portion of the Daily Mail printed in Manchester, and was deleted from later editions owing to its doubtfulness. The Times and the Lone on office of the Daily Mail detected its incredibility at the outset, and did not publish ■ lie interview. Few people really believed either Lord Northcliffe or Mr. Steed to be capable of such statements. The more sober journals discounted them before the actual denials were received. As a number of newspapers prominently reprinted the so-called interview, Mr. Lloyd George, anxious to counteract possible harm, obtained the King’s denial without awaiting Lord North ediffe’s denial.

1 TO STUDY PACIFIC PROBLEMS. FAR EAST AFTER AUSTRALIA. London, July 16. Lord Northcliffe had a most enthusiastic send-off’ at Waterloo Station, es- « pecially by his employees. ) General Booth, in a farewell letter, j remarked: “It is a fine, brave thought which takes you on this tour. You arcright in thinking as you do about the Pacific.” Lord Northcliffe will devote his tour mainly to the study of Pacific problems, and the problems of every country bordering the Pacific. Lord Northcliffe will travel via Vancouver, Honolulu, and Auckland, and will leave Australia at the end of September for the Philippines. Japan. Korea, China, the -Straits Settlements, and India. He said before leaving that he was very grateful for the numberless 1 invitations cabled from Australia and New Zealand, and added that he feared | that the younjf Prince of Wales’ intense i vitality might lead Australia to think ( he was similarly endowed. “As a matter of fact,” he said, “T am a rather tired man, and shall be 56 on July 15 If my friends could arrange a public function in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, T should be grateful, but I want quietlv to see a little of Australia and th- i astral Jan people on my own. People at banquets look alike the world over. I want to walk about the streets and drive through the country. I do not want long rail journeys, which also are the same the world over 1 want to meet new newspaper friends.”