A GREAT CAPTURE

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1920, Page 5

A GREAT CAPTURE

DR. MANNIX’S HUMOUR. INTERVIEWED ON TUESDAY. OPINIONS ON IRELAND. [Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association. T

LONDON,'August 10. Archbishop Mannix, wearing his episcopal robes, and scarlet cap, v/as to be seen after bis arrival at London. li ß J>nsed for a cinema in the garden oc Nazareth House. The Archbishop was walking backwards and forwards with a stately bearing. Father Vaughan remarked : “This would be a good picture for Australia and America.” Archbishop Mannix came to London on Tuesday from Plymouth; the authorities excluded the publ.c from the Paddington railway station. Two priests and a dozen members of the Irish Self-Determination League welcomed Dr. Mannix. The latter proceeded to Nazareth House. An unending stream of callers interviewed Archbishop Mannix all day long. * A crowd assembled in the evening outside Nazareth House. Hr. Mannix delivered an address to the crowd. He concluded with ti blessing, and made an appeal to the crowd to disperse quickly. The Archbishop of Perth (Dr. Chine) arrived from Paris, and he proceeded directly to greet Dr. Mannix at Hammersmith. Archbishop Mannix, in an interview said ; “Since the Battle of Jutland, the British Navy has not scored

any success comparable to that of the capture of the Archbishop of Melbourne, who was taken without the loss of a single British sailor/' In an interview, Dr. Mannix stated : “I am an Australian citizen, who wishes to visit his native land, after seven years spent in Australia. I thought it my duty as the Archbishop of Melbourne to stand by the weak against the strong. I was therefore compelled to use my influence on behalf of the workers. Thus my name becomes associated with Labour politics. The Australian volunteers did more than their share to win the war.” The interviewer asked: “Were you then in favour of recruiting and volunteering?” Dr. Mannix replied: “I asked no man to go, and 'I asked no man to stay.” Dr. Mannix described Mr. Hughes as a politician who was now both" defeated' and discredited. He (said Dr. Mannix) was now feeling nervous because he was losing his hold on office. The interviewer asked; “Do you contemplate taking part in political agitation V ’ Dr. Mannix : “I have made no such plans.”

The interviewer then asked: “Have you seen Mr. Hughes’ latest statement that your return to Australia may be difficult?” Dr. Mannix : “Yes; but lam bound G return to Australia. Mr. Hughes is not my ecclesiastical superior!” Dr. Mannix deplored crimes in Ireland, but pointed out they were political. The Irish people were the most crimeless people in the' world. Dr. Mannix further stated: “The Irish Republic is already in existence and nothing should alter it, except a change of opinion amongst the Irish people themselves. You Engl:sh people seem to agree that, if Ireland should ask for Dominion Home Rule, it should be rranted. It seems to follow logically that if Ireland asks for a Republic, she is entitled to have it. Some English people say that they cannot allow Ireland to be independent for strategical reasons. Germany might have said the same thing about Belgium. Russia might have said the same thing about Poland. Apparently some people in England think that the principle of self-determination should apply to our enemies, but not to frimuls. Receiced at 12.20 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, August 11. A mass meeting of protest against the removal of Archbishop Mannix from the steamer Baltic is called for Sunday in Madison Square Garden, New York. IN AUSTRALIA REPLY TO CRITICS. BY AIR STOREY. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 12.40 p.m. SYDNEY, This Day. Air Storey, replying to the censure motion, said that he wanted no votes of the Nationalists or Progressives who were not favourable to the victimised strikers of 1917 receiving another chance to earn an honest living. He was himself unable to attend the Afannix farewell, but he would not have hesitated to pay a tribute to any gentleman holding high office, irrespective of his opinions. Up to the time of his departure from

Australia Dr Man nix had said nothing objectionable. He expressed the opinion that the subsequent action of the British Government was instigated by Mr Hughes. Defending Judge Ewing’s report he said that no man would sentence a prisoner to fifteen years on the word of a scoundrel, adding that the previous Government induced Scully to leave Australia, offering him a large sum of money and a free passage ; also that the Government kept him for a year and dictated what he should say. Mr Wearne, the Progressive Leader, announced that he was voting with the Opposition and that he would oppose any effort to replace the strikers at the expense of file loyalists. The debate was adjourned. (Received til's day at 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Fuller attacked the Government over the proposal to reinstate the 1917 railway strikers and the delay in fulfilling his prrsaise to deal with profiteering. He caused some disorder

by referring to Dr. Mannix as a rebel priest, and declaring that the two State Ministers who attended D’r. Mannix’s farewell should have been severely reprimanded and put out iof the Ministry. He said that the action of the Government over the Industries Workers of the World case had shaken the confidence of the people so far as the administration of justice was concerned. He then moved a motion of cansure. On thrr'motion of the Premier the debate in the House was adjourned till this afternoon.