"DOING GERMAN WORK."

Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 3

"DOING GERMAN WORK."

HOME SECRETARY'S INDICTMENT OF PACIFISTS. Sir George Cave, replying in Parliament yesterday to various criticisms of the new regulations as to the publication of pamphlets, said the pacifists leaflets with which he had to deal were those of. persons who wanted peace through surrender, and who, in order to get peace, were willing to do their best to hamper the raising of our Army, to persuade young men not to serve, to interfere with the manufacture of munitions required by our armv, and were willing to bring the country' to the position in which Russia was to'-day. Fellowships and -societies had grown up for the purpose of pushing this kind of propaganda, the same kind of leaders came up a<»ain and again in the different- societies, °and the kind of leaflets the Government were anxious to deal with was perfectly reckless in language. They exaggerated "the number of casualties, multiplied the dead and wounded by tens and hundreds, and sometimes even by thousands. - They put in every case the German view of the origin of the war and the position of things to-day. These pamphlets were doing German work, and he thought the powers under the regulations in Clause 27C. as amended, were not greater than ought to he given in such a war as this. [The cable news in this issue accredited to ' The Times' has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of ' The Times.']