THE ENEMY WITHIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4813, 9 March 1918, Page 3

THE ENEMY WITHIN.

PLOT TO DESTROY THE EMPIRE

Mr T. Henley, M.L.A.. who is ono'ao’ecl in patriotic work in England, ■ has written to Mr J. H. Wise, i M.L.A.. Sydney, a long letter, from 1 which the following is taken : I “Prussian military autocracy, with < its back against the wall, is bound to die hard, but it must be done to death, or life for freedom-loving Britons will not be worth living. Sometimes I fancy I see in the he4Jislrfriahtfulness of ITun methods and prodigal waste of human life by German generals a sign of death-ike violence expending itself m the throes of a* dying agony 1 hope it is so. Depend upon it, the tightei we grip the vitals of the vicious brutes and barbarous instigators and perpetrators of ten thousand infamies, the- more terrible will be the struggle, and more frightful will Ins methods become. The Hob ouzo Herns are in srong alliance with the seen organisations that are known to be working for the downfall of the Bntish Empire, and the destruction of free democratic institutions. Bo Joism in various forms draws its Me blood from many sources, and tlunes on the free soil of our own country. W T e can beat the German man eci tme o the battlefield, but the real enemy within the must >c deaß with. They are clothed " guises; they are fighting Gumany s battles quite as desperately, t g not even as honorably as the 11 on the proclaimed battlefield. I was not the force of arms that defeated Russia; or later caused the voluntarv surrender of so man> Dal inns What was it, then? Look around. Make close observation of the enemy at home as well ns a b, -oj g Our hoys must not give then n ( Si vain; this must be a war to the dead finish; the tyrannical forces of ancient autocracy must J 6 dealt now Whenever we find known see ret seed beds of national disloyalty they should be torn up at once.