MR H. G. WELLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18424, 9 December 1921, Page 6

MR H. G. WELLS

DAILY MAIL’S INDICTMENT UNFAIR REPORTING. SNEERS AT FRENCH DELEGATES. LONDON. November 28. The Daily Mail splashes a long indictment of Mr H. G. Wells, who has been contributing a series of articles to the papers. “We are forced to realise,” says the Daily Mail, “ that his articles are endangering out friendly relations with France, and regret having to say that he has not been an impartial reporter of the conference. “ From the beginning Mr Wells displayed a marked aversion to France. His first allusion to the French delegation was a sneer, and he continued to manifest this unfriendly attitude, vyhich was increasingly unfair and mischievous. ‘‘His declaration that France was preparing for war against Britain was omitted from the Daily Mail, but was spread •in France through the instrumentality of an American paper and destroyed ’ the confidence of European readers in the sanity of his political judgnjent. “ His monstrous accusation of treachery was so resented that his saner despatches were not read for want of patience. “ Moreover, his ill-considered message prophesying the end of the Empire conveyed a sinister significance, and vve were driven to the conclusion that no useful purpose would be served by continuing his articles, and have so informed him.”