BURNT ON THE RHINE

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 448, 8 October 1919, Page 1

BURNT ON THE RHINE

The Government aontinu* to provide th© Daily Herald with a good advertieement by their behaviour over the question of the supply of the papa, to the troops on th© BMx>&. This weak, th© Herald has been able to publish the Secret Orders that the papers should be collected at tho railhead by the Brigade Post Ofiice and burnt under th« supervision of an officer, the whole to be carried out with "as little publicity aa possible." Mr. Winston Churchill, in the House of Com m one, explained that the paper had gone cut to th© troops along with other papers j purchased by tbe War Office out of the ' Canteen Funds. He had received representations from Six Douglas Haig and other high Military Officials that barm had beem done to the troops by the paper. This order, however, did not prevent any soldier from sußscribing privately to the Herald. To encourage this good work the Edit©-. adve>. tised tbis fact in the Cologne Post, and offered, at his usual remuneration, t° publish any statement up to 600 words, that Mr. Churchill might choose to raako to pr©T& his allegations against the paper I No answer has been received np to date, but protests against th© Government's action continu© to pour into the office from all over th( country. NEWS ITEMS Th© following axe extracts fro_t Labor Foreign Correspondence:— From Griffin Barry in Paris— The Council of five has sent instruo tiona to the French, British, Italian, and American attaches at Helsingfoxa to urge the Finns to accept Koltchak's request for a combined offensive against! the Soviet city, promising, of course, more munitions and more military advice. In addition to this action, for the first time an open official request, signed by all five repressEitatives, includes a guarantee that Finland will suffer no penalty under the league of Nations rules regarding unsanctioned war against a foreign country if th© re. truest with. Kaily Correspondent, Budapest— Th© Soviet <3o'v.rn_f__it is doing ali in its power t° bette_ condition*. Exchange of goods on a large scale has been initiated between the capital and the provinces, aiming at providing the village population with industrial merchandise in for victuals needed by th© city proletariat. Tbe enterprise, although only just begin ning, has, as I have convinced myself by statistics, already had satisfactory results. So far good© and food pro* ducts to the value of about one mil/ lion crowns have beem exchanged. Dally Herald Correspondent, RomeYesterday th© Federation of BooS Workers went on strike. Thus no papers were published except "Avanti." "The food agitations had in Some a tragic eid© yesterday, when foor per* sons were killed in a collision with thf police. The Government jpropcse* that thf people should eat less and work m©re» but th© Socialists think th&t th« bourgeoisie, which has brought the na.* tion t© thi» point, should abandon; power and undergo severe punishment. During the food agitations over 60 per* «>ons were killed through the country. This is the reward of a people that, after bavins given everything, no* only asks to live.