FROM FRISCO TO THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2770, 13 May 1916, Page 8

FROM FRISCO TO THE FRONT

f ' A FINE EXAMPLE • V ! AMERICAN WAR SENTIMENT r INTERVIEW WITH REV, M. . :..-•••■. MULUNEUX. ■ Tt®..3cy. 11.■ Muiliileux, the wJll-kiwwn j;-.. International lootUalier, who recently ar; ;.. Tivfcu. in \Y'ellihgtpn from SauFrancisco, t : . nas -fdy'.-.ied'. ;&ome very/'clemute "opinions ( ..-about the 'sentiments-of American paopio {■ nud politicians -regarding the war. Mr. Itulluwus is ail Englisnraau, who luta f. \ ptenl (tloing mission woi'K anions seamen r,; in ban iraucisco, during the last lew j, '.years,-and was iu that'-city when the war !•: tooKe out. ...As. tho great. struggle pror.... tt-eded' Ilia d%ire; to gee to the irout in- £ v cieased. Ha talked the matter over witn I i iH ii V. y ' a '' " well-known"' "All •• Black" |: »potbailer; and they: decided to go to tlio £:■" -together by: way of New Zealand, as t >> ylie-'had relative : iii- this Dominion, i desired to seo them. Subsequently' Wylie found that ho could not'get away, fv ."I'd' Air. Mullineux- determined to ga i (iione._ Bu't.as mission work is not a very [y; : lucrative _form .of employment, l ho did & ' S?' -iind. it easy to finance his journey. [-.: " Ha',eventually resolved to make his way. |i; / to. -Wellington in the stpkehold of the 11'ffloana. »lt was arduous, work.for a man J. notfacaiistomod to it/but.Mr. Mullinonx's 'constitution and trailing as an athlete / proved very useful and he is none tho I wcise'for his unusual' experienced ' At tho. request .of a representative of p: The Dominion, Mr. Mnllineux. consented' [J, :to give' his-inipressions regarding th.e war i-."Sympathies of America; ■ He said:. ; "When the war commenced I was in f.: can Francisco, a city in which there has j : atoys bseu a great number of people to Britishers. I thiuk this feel- ( ing is due to .some extent to the largo j: number of remittance men who find their V. .*ay to that Hud of. sunshine. .Much of j. it,..however, is due to ignorance .of the (British Empire aud her ways—men and .; VrOfflea who think we try "to grab every* g, .. thing, who imagine that ire are not lovers

p.jof : freedom f) and that we,are jealous of v '/America. i'h«so men and Women lioto in fci-.inost never ten to-tho Old Country. f : and are always ready to remind you of fc'..the; .way America defeated .us intkeßevo- |; jfction.The educated' and travailed particularly in the Eastern and pj fccuthern. States, .is a very perK; ■■fan,-', and realises how great the British | Shapiro is.

Pro-German Sentiment, > "The outbreak of the .war wa£ the occa* for aii extra display of auti-British even a. respected',weekly declaring • that the ■ time,' had 1 last ' arrived when British pnde : was'to be.crushed, foi-'ever. -■..You'can well imagine 1 , that this feeling was ;tetered- by''ihc ihimeiiso 'number of tf yin ftan ?Francisoo, ttn'd'- living - in California was anything but pleasaiit ;.?•■: for'; a; Britisher/. .-.-It ; was.'painful to :read /'• the : -papers, three; of which were reported' .■ ; '.to: be subsidised -ly. 'the-Teutons. When : flny-'hotice 'olV.the Ifelgian atrcicities was H-;takea};it was; as 'a rule,' 1 to. .justify .them. V:During -the advance towards Paris, Unva,£;'6i«n":of\Englan)l. was-,regarded* us certain, ,?iiiiply . a matter;, bf time. .'. The. suspense i;-: jvas awful,to the British,;;for .we received n<-Creliable.information, and as we after* ward|' discovered,.^disasters'th it,never be.. fe. ; aims we're reporiwli;invkndins t'."-paragraphs. ,-Theu . canle; Is Mti-eat .from Moiis and'.the inflated- re- [.: •ptrts ceascd for a time./ The , activities iv Leiusic,. Nurnberg, Enideu, 'etc.,' 'caused further rejoicings, but the Ealk-|}-j land .Islands gave l oiir.- enemies, in the rfi U,S.A,' cause for. reflection.' -Then' came tt the sinking of the. Lupitauia',' the very |.| worst thing Germany ever did with re-

[;|. giird ,to American ieelmg. _ It iraade- pro- • 'Ally ; .hundred's thousands, who. were £ -our passive enemies, or indifferent—men i'i; rind' ..women who had .-teen won ;over by a' very 'active Gorman'; propaganda, anil - ivho .would have been 'rather pleased thnu : J-r otherwise at the complete defeat of the; of the fact thai America would have' been; th» next nation to come under the heel of German. ' . Front that time onward we ;.-y have/been steadily gaining , friends .;ls I '•■■■■■ America,-and. there. is no doubt that at ;J;itise'presßnt moment feeling- in the U.S.A. t 'Fis overivJialuiinslr ii'favour of the Allies. l' J- ' V . : ■■ ■

"Uncle Sham." f'' "This feeling- is shown;-by the numertji'ous appeals 'in tlio"papers to! the Presi!v":'deiit,' urging Jiim to sever, diplomatic rej; "nations witii Germany. Mr. Wilson has •5 ; estrangea thousands of. : liis.snpporters by i ■ his want of grit. '■ War-is not advocated i' /'except as a last; resort,;.biit he iias been' '/urged' to have iio/ dealiiigs;'with a nation I;'■'■'.that has so little'.sense oi'i honour—a unction /.that' never -liesitatca ;;to.below • the belt whenever it gets the chance. 1. Ju3t before T left' SanVlVancisco' there ap. ;PedWd. in. 'il'Clure's; Magazine', an 'article- ; entitled-'Uiicle Sham.'/' This ' article was' ? by.-.a., prominent American .writer, and 1 f through 'all 'the matters Air. Wilson ; -had attempted.: to ..settle-rtho Hucrta in- ;'- cident-.-'the-.-sinking" of; the - Lusitauia, 'Arabic,Ot'alaba, etc., and,this is the way i.'..allthe"incidentsMvero.<dealt with:--J""-'Amprica prides;'herielt on being the»! >:■ ' one-, nation that has never waged war ex-- [/. ~ ee.pt flic interest of righteousness and (..; freedom,, and on . behalf of the'weak. "She foses a» the laifd where thai, weak , and oppressed .can- be, free'; and happy, etc. c. -that theso are inure f ; w "lii-'y actions ..siace ,tho, war '!■/ -began, and that she .is /weak and groveii' - ling,-; supremely content ; so /long u$ hii-. ; . citizens can • rftka. in; tho'/dollars, even! when ..such wealth is acquired'at., the i ; tense .of the flesh and .blood of humanity; !: ,Writing |>iofe' is., apparently /oiir.' I're-si- :. . Jieiit s, pastime, but the -Ivaiser seems to :• nave all the fun, for every time he'refWceiyes a Koto he-puts his .thumb 'to his •', fcose and twiddle's iiis :fiSge'rs. The lesssrk ,- personage of Kuerta, did even tho same, ! let:us talis the saluting of the Star and h... Stripes. affair. "You will salute our p . flag,?' said Wilson. .".Nothing doing," /; Baid Huerta, "We will bs obeyed," de- ; clared the President. "You 'will not U;.Fulute the, flag." ..".Very good," 'answered "iev.Jlexjcan, "wo. will not salute .your c-.uag.";' ./ jy-,1-"."Aa'd this has been llr. Wilson's t,, method ,in all those incidents of the war | wiiich have effected, us so vitally. When r li© suitl thut a nation flight ba too pnuul i; to -light, he-.little knew what telliu" ji..." stories would Ije/told. Bore is one. An | . American w~,s asked some -time at/o how f ; it, .was. that so .many Americans' were i;-. drowned when the Lusitahia was sunk', v ■ I he.- rsply came—-'Because they wero tcu ! proud to swim.' This is the style of tho t < article—an. articlc that must make every !, . decent American bow his head in shame".

; ■ ; ■ German Activity. ""When ttio war broke out, Gernians I--.ware,very active in Sail I'Yaucisco. As j , ive now know, all the officials, had their. orders in scaled envelopes, and acted on V": them, in dcfiauee of all the rules of new- ! trality. German warships ■■ knew that. ; they would be provisioned from American. 1 . ports. How many cargoes loft San l'rau. jciseo for this work we do not 'know— i; probably never shall know—but the mat- ;. ; ter leaked out eventually. Suspicion was j: nri.uKi'd by the s.s. Sacramento. This ship j... prowled all over the by for somis. three i weeks before she got away , quietly, lie. ; tent investigations.have proved her guilt J-. '.conclusively, but"l presume 2lr. Wilson j - iviil do nothing..

t. . The Spy System. .. ! "German spies swarmed in California," | nrnl every movement of the Britishers was j watched and reported to the Consul! J •; discovered two in the.Ssntnen's Institute :. there. This was fine picking for them, j. bs the sailors use the place frequently, ;and much valuable information was got j thero until t forbade. the men to como i v into the Ijuikiiiiif. The''fellows posed ad [ sailors, but 1 eventually found they wcro j'- not; and so had legitimate grounds f::-r ■r my action. I'wo Britishers in San Fran, t'.' cisco. offered to pay the passage home I lor any men .who would work in tho i, llnniitiun factories in''tins Old Country. This was done, I believe, legitimately j hut quietly. The men iiid not enlist,'but j their word was taken to do some sort ! . Df work for the Army.' Many men weru . rent, but the Germans discovered : the f . h'cheme at last, and the two men were indicted for breaking neutrality. They !; were convicted, as everybody expected in | : eucha Teutonic stronghold, bu,t an ap-

Sieal -.vua iudged, tin J I believe tlia matter was q-iasheu. .'i'nis wnl show you now uxtejisivu is tile titfiiiia,. >py system. Tho British CoiiMti «as bruugut into Court, Out tliere w,'j no evi.leuco to"prove tlmi any fundi uad uome lroni his office.

"As 1 dalii tieionv iiie uulje ui tho people in Amer.ca are now in favour 01 tils Allies. 'I ue complaints about the blockade are simply tnu outcry 01 a lev." merciumts who are not satislied wit's the immense profits tney are making. They lurget linn; in their Civil War tiie Nortn (livl witn the South exactly what we are .uoiug with Uerimuty. Some lour hundred tnousand wen, women,. anil children 111 Lancashire were literally starving ys a result of. this, but they, knew they were tlio victim;; ol war and endured the privation like heroes..

•. "The chiei centres of Teutonic intrigues aro in Nortu and South Dasota, a certain lection of New York, and California."

'.During .thu'past few weeks Air. ilullineux has been giving some assistance in St, X'aul's parish, Titorudon. He will be remembered by many A'ew Zealanders as' tlio captain or the Bnglish football team which visited Australia in 1809. Ho is a graduatj ot Cambridge University, and has done sal-vice as a naval chaplain, lie. | also acted as chaplain to the British lorces light through 1 the lioer War.' Ho is quite determined to get to the front, oitbi.T na a chaplain or in some other capacity. He is certainly just the sort of man that is wanted there. His wide and varied experience and his thorough know, ledge of men, especially young men, should qualify him in a. special manner for the .work of a chaplain. , Now that Mr. JXullineuxi'has got as far as A'ew Zealand, tho fulfilment'of his laudable 'desire to serve the Empire on the battleiiold should not bs far off. . . ' \