THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16546, 20 November 1915, Page 7

THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS.

GRAVE CHARGE BY RUSSIAN PAPER. EFFECT ON BALKANS DIPLOMACY. LONDON, November 19. (Received Nov. 19, at 10.45 p.m.) Recently the Daily Chronicle republished an article from the Russkoye Slowo, which says: " The newspapers lay a heavy responsibility on the Northcliffe press for the failure of the diplomacy of the Entente Powers in the Balkans. After The Times and Daily Mail's quarrel with the British Government they systematically began to blacken the military and diplomatic measures and foretell the failure of the Allies. The Germans made wide use of this campaign for their own pro. paganda in Greece, Rumania, and Bulgaria. Wolff's Agency disseminated Colonel Repington's articles, with a view of proving that the British re. cognise the deficiency of their military organisation. The papers in Rumania and Greece are filled with the Daily Mail and Times's comments published at the German expense.

"THE BEST GAME IN HISTORY." AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALLER'S APPEAL. SYDNEY, November 19. The secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union has received a letter from Dr Moran, who captained the "Wallaby" team that toured Britain, and who is now convalescent after service on Gallipoli, embodying a characteristic footballer's appeal: "You must all come, if we want to win this war—every man Jack. Slackers and shirkers merit only a noose of rope. It is the only game worth playing. Now that they are in our ' twentyfive,' send us men, men, men, more msn. It is the best game in history. There are n-v rules. avd the onlv referee is Postcity whose whistle cannot yet be heard. Yes, they're in our ' twenty-five 'at present, but when we heel out our ammunition more cleaTly we shall move forward. Meanwhile we want men of the Anzac breed." TASMANIAN SOLDIER'S COMPLAINT. INQUIRIES BEING MADE. lIOBART, November 19. A returned soldier named Whiteitt, in making allegations ns to the bad treatment of the wounded, said he was forced to 4 do sailor's work aboard the hospital ship. When it arrived he was not admitted to hospital, being without an order for admission, and was told he 1 could sleep in the domain. 1 An inquiry into his statements has been ordered.