Kipling In Pickling

NZ Truth, Issue 878, 23 September 1922, Page 1

Kipling In Pickling

It will' have *been noticed m the latest cabled news that the American Aleck Smarts on the papers have been taking advantage of the reputation of Ruddy Kipling some more — for the n-th time. "When Rudyards cease from Kipling' and the Haggards are at rest!" In the alleged interview Kipling , said some straight things of the Amurrkans — and apparently Clemenceau is going over to say trie same things without flowers or music. Kippy - talked (allegedly) about how late U.S. came along and won the war. He told Sammy (allegedly) that the latter had gained some of. the world and most of its gold (allegedly)— but England had kept her soul intact. All very true, allegedly Kiplingesy or harder. Kipling's only son was killed on the beach of Gallipoli — a sub with a British regiment. He fraternised a brief moment; with some of our New Zealanders before going further along. "A simple-looking lad, who should not have left mother," said one Wellington boy — "but game as they are made." Kipling married .an American, and her brother (Balestier) got into collaboration with Kip. m a novel recently screened m New Zealand — "The Naulakha." After that—perhaps to save further collab.— Ruddy used that sort of slanguage to Americans m general and theß. family over there particularly. In his cabled reply to his alleged interview Kip told U-S. folks that he had not ceased his pi-actice of writing over his own signature. Kipling has told the> world over and over again that he has never been interviewed genuinely by a newspaper. ' "I don't do that sort of thing." He has a fine forgettery. He was interviewed by Editor R. A. Tjoughnan, of the "New Zealand Times" when he was m Wellington — and that is a very long time ago.