"ALWAYS A REBEL."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16782, 25 August 1916, Page 5

"ALWAYS A REBEL."

FOR HIS COUNTRY IN THIS WAIi. Mr Ben Tillett, in tho course of a lecture last month at Brighton—Field Marshal Viscount French occupying tho chair, —said ho was, and always* would be, a rebel. Tho world never stood in such peril of Prussianism as it, did now, and he was a lebel against Prussianism. He would bo a rebel unto death, and he would stand by his country in this war. Lord Kitchener invited him to the British front, and ho travelled up and down. Ho went out because 24 out of every 25 belonged, to the class he lo\ ed. The others were officers. With all the soul and sentiment he possessed ho declared he was proud to belong to the country that had such officers. Whether aristocrats of blue blood or not, they liad shed all their red blood for Britain. All the bravo deeds that had ever been enacted were excelled m tho great retreat from Mon«. Although the Germans possessed tho mathematical mind, there was something even above materialism and mathematics, and that was never estimated by the Geimane, and tho thousand veai> hence would boast of it. Ho produced a Gorman saw-edged bayonet and notched bullets that inado wounds that would not heal, and appealed to people living at home in safety—thanks to the navy— the pouple among whom the only grumblers were found, to do all in their power to help our bo\s in a war the like of which was not recorded in the workl's history. By we gained a victory for humanity, and saved the better type of German from Prussianism. He askod his countnmcn and women to stand against a patchcd-up peace, and hold out for a fight to the finish. He had been in villages where the Huns, under their officers, had murdered all the males, where they had ciuciiied and mutilated our bovs, where tho walk w'eie splashed by Ihe blood of tho women they had o'ltiaged and killed, and where the golden hair of Innocent children wai seen on the wallf._in the blood of their mothers. Our bojs did not want erocodilo tears, but shells and guns; send them munitions. Peace would not como by piaicr alone; let* the rich help with their monov, and master and man help to tho utmost of their abilitv thtee who wore bravely giving their lives. •

A resident of Fiji, in a letior to a Christchurch friend (reports tho Press), says: — "There is gicat rivalry amongst tho Fijian natives to vc which district can give tho most to help on with the war. In tho L.iu district tho nalivci, have rolleeted enough mon<'\ to buy two motor ambulances. The Hew.i natives had a meeting to .see what tlio\ oould do, and it was decided to give an aeroplane. They will h.vve to raise £1600 for it. and the Tailevu natives, have decided to raise enough money to b.tv four motor ambulances." The Oop< nltagon correspondent of tho F,xnriwi sends a .st'>rv icg.irdipg the illncws of the Duko'of Brunswick, th" Kaiser's son-m-Uw. tho =tory. however, not being confniued from an\ other souiee. "Tho Duko of Brunswick," fi.v.s the correspondent, "who li.vs boon the victim of profound melancholia since the early days of tho war, is now declared to bo hopelessly insane. His mont-il coll ipse was tho result of a trying experience while, commanding a detachment of Gorman troops on tho Russian frontier when he witnessed the fcragio fate of his men, all of whom ware (Wallowed uj? in a treacherous nmrsh. M