DISLOYAL UTTERANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17375, 24 July 1918, Page 4

DISLOYAL UTTERANCE

a*. MAN FINED £25. (Pza Ukitbd Pcess AsunniATiow.) AUCKLAND, July 23. In the Police Court to-day Adolph Gotlieb Fischer was charged with publisning an utterance indicating disloyalty as follows: — "The E.-itish are liars. They lied in South Airica. The British will never win the war. Germany will never go down; she will win the day. The British would do worse things than Germany, and have don© so, but it will never be known until after the war. They are getting wiiat they deserve.' Evidence was given to the effect that statements of a similar tenor were made in a boarding-house. The accused said he was a Swiss, and had been in the- dominion for 40 years. lie had eight children, and had always enjoyed loyalty to Britain. Two sons were at tile front. He denied makinp the staleincuts. He had lived in Germany from the time ho was 10 years of age until ho was 15 years old. His wife, who had deserted him, was a German. The accused was fined £25, the magistrate (Mr Hunt) remarking that the case was not so bad as if the utterance had been made in a public, place, such as an hotel.