THE TRUE AMERICAN.

Northern Advocate, 21 March 1921, Page 5

THE TRUE AMERICAN.

PATRIOTIC ANSWER

TO GERMAN SYMPATHISERS

(Received 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 19Extraordinary scenes of enthusiv asX a were witnessed at a, patriotic rally organised by the American Veterans' Association as a reply to the recent mass meeting held by German sympathisers ostensibly to protest against the use of black troops in the Huhr area, but at which iSinn Feiners joined the Germans in reviling ex- ■% President Wilson, • American institu--2 tion& and the Allies, and from which 1 American soldiers were, ejected by r ' the police for protesting against the speeches. To-night 14.000 people were packed in Maddison Square Gardens, thousands being turned away. The Speakers iwere-v<c | ontuvually cheered when they declared that the true American was bi+terly resentful of sittempts by the "hyphenateds"_ to .cause friction Ibetween the United States and the Allies. •General Pershing said that AmeTica must insist that outlaw nations must'be held to full responsibility by penalty for their misdeeds. He declared: "We object to foreign-born persons, whether German or Irish, atempting to decide the American question?'—A. and N.Z.