ARCHBISHOP MANNIX

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 11 August 1920, Page 8

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX

STANDS BY HIS SPEECHES

[Press Association." Aus and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Aug. 11,-1.45 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 10., Archbishop Mannix, interviewed m London, declared that there was more in -the Government's attitude than It wished the public to realise. The hostility of Mr Hughes and others like him was clue to the Arciibishop?s helping to defeat conscription and to save democratic Australia from military desuotism, also because he had defended Ireland^from persistent systematic vilification m the ■cablegrams through London, which ■wei'e ilie only cablegrams Australia ever got. The deliberate to •discredit him in America had failed. He ptond by every syllable ot ms speeches.