THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS.

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 870, 9 March 1917, Page 8

THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS.

- Some Discreditable Tactics. may.differ as the wisdom of all - tlie official actions ■ of Mr. Asquith and Lord Grey, but each -lias in his day done splen did- service for tlie State, and in the lionr of political adversity should not be jibed and jeered at. And yet this is exactly what the North cliffe press, especially the "Daily Mail" and the "Times" have, it appears, been doing ever- since Mr. As-, quith resigned and made way for the more energetic but not more personally patriotic Lloyd George. A peculiarly dirty trick by which Lord NorthclifEe's own oi-gan, the "Daily Mail/', recently endeavoured to cast odium upon Lord Grey of Falloden has been exposed. It published a cartoon by the famous Dutch caricaturist. Louis *R'acmaekers, symbolising certain blunders of the Central Powers. TFnderneath his original sketch Raeinaeliers .had placed the words, "To the. memory. of our Enemies." The "Daily. Mail," however, in reproducing the cartoon, altered the legend so as to read, "To the Memory of Lord Grey of Falloden." O' o fi. o The Dutch artist was so indignant over this very dirty, trick of the Northcliffe organ that he at once went to the '"'Daily Chronicle" and denounced the alteration of his, title m no unsparing terms. Had such a mean and" contemptible been unearthed in a Hun' newspaper, how .ferociously denunciatory. would have been the ''Daily Mail." • But, apparently, no trick is too despicable to adopt so long as the Xorthcliffe " organ can cast odium upon an Englishman it has once determined to hound down. - "We notice the

Press Association still continues tocable out the opinions of \the "Daily Mail" on various ■ political' mattersThis continued advertisement -of sucli a - paper should cease. .. '