QUEER “NEWS.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 July 1927, Page 8

QUEER “NEWS.”

MISBKPBESEiNTATIOX IN AMERICA.

GOODSELL, GENEVA, AND

J UPLAND

I I'lie re have been four notable exI am pies, that have come under the writI er'e notice «&iinee last mail, at miwepreI mentation regarding Australia, and New Zealand in tihe L lifted States (writes tiie San Kraneisoa correspondent of the ‘ 'Uiiini.vteliuroii I’res.v ’). I A United States .Prefer photograph | syndicate issued a two-column illustration of Major Henry Goedsell, world champion sculler, and Ernest- Barry, of England, ex-champion, whoi are to contest the tittle on Oakland Estuary, SanEi anci.seo Bay, on Sunday, June 20. I'the oaption said: Major Uoodsell, Anier.i can, world champion, etc. To one’s certain knowledge, Goodseil Huts not been aibroiad, except lor the great Adventure, and only came to: America some .weeks ago to train for the race. I A delightful example was given, in a, Press dispatch dated Washington I that was published throughout America and Gaueida, to the effect that a statement had been officially .made in I Melbourne that Lord Jellicee and Sir Ja mes Parr, High Cbmmiissioiier for New Zealand, would reiireseiit Australia at the forthcoming naval disarmament conference at Geneva, and that Australia had expressed satisfaction at the representationSin- Gerard Maxwell - Wil 1 share, who \va.s arrested in London for an indecent assault on a girl, was described in the Precis of North America. as an Austarlian, for no other reason than that he married an Australian girl.

U.S. PL WET AT JUTLAND! I Perhaps the most glaring ease of misrepresentation is at present being perpetrated, on the American, people, who are being adviced just now by posters and advertisements' in the I American papers to see a certain film that contains, among ot-lier thrills, the “operations of the American Elect at the Battle of Jutland.” Probably not one .in a thousand south of the international border knows that the American Elect did not operate at the Battle of Jutland. Sir Efcme Howard said rightly that Americans were so engrossed in the affairs of the fortyeight States of the Union that they had no time for the consideration of events happening abroad. Denials are regularly sent to the sources from which these misrepresentations emanate, but it is difficult, to overtake an .announcement made' in a thousand or more newspapers. If the denial is published, it never receives the prominent notice that is 'afforded the original misleading statement.