DR. MANNIX

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 267, 5 August 1920, Page 5

DR. MANNIX

POSITION AS A PRIEST ABUSED FOR DISLOYAL PURPOSE By Telegrarh-Press Assoeiation-Oopyrleht Melbourne, August 4. Referring to the statements of Dr. Mtanix, Mi'. W. M. Hughes said tho Archbishop was tho leader of tho Sinn Fein in Australia. He had abused his position as n priest to further tho most disloyal purpose, to set creed against croed, and class against class. Respecting Dr. Mannix's statement that lie will reply to Mr. Hughes when he returns, Mr. Hughes said: ''Ho may; but first of all ho has to return."—Press Assn. INDIGNATION AT ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA. Winnipeg, August 3. The Victorian Attorney-General, Mr. A. Robinson, who is here on liis way to Melbourne, in an interview, said that Archbishop Mannix was a very disturbing element in the community, and a fomenter of anti-British feeling. The Nationalist Party would possibly havo been unsuccessful in the elections without the indignation which anti-British propaganda had aroused. Tho masses repudiated Dr. Mannix and his tactics.— Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. VALIDITY OF DEFENCE OF REALM REGULATIONS. (Rec. August i, 10.15 p.m.) London, August 3. A legal authority, writing in the "Westminster Gazette," predicts that in tho event of the Government invoking the Defence of the Realm Regulations to prohibit Dr. Mannix landing in Ireland, all -the friends of British liberty will unite in bringing the issue to the Courts. Judges in a number of cases have already held that the Defence of the Realm Regulations are now invalid, inasmuch as the war emergency has passed—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assii,