SMITING DISLOYALTY.S

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15276, 26 July 1920, Page 6

SMITING DISLOYALTY.S

j STRAIGHT TALK FROM FEDERAL i PREMIER. i . (Received Julv 26. 12.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE. July 26. : Mr; Hughes, in his Bendigo speech, said : When we put a man aboard a [ ship bv virtue of the law the steamship companies and wharf laborers and seamen shall obey the law; if not we shall [ see what we shall see. Neither shall be al- -. lowed to defy the law of the land. T- In i- denouncing the disloyalists, he 'declared he would smite them hip and thigh. y Ref&ring to Archbishop Mannix, he ' said ho wanted American people to know that $lannix did not represent Aus- ; tualiaY If" he said lv's utterances w,ere . supported by the. people of Australia he ! had said what "was not true. .He added: j MamiixV speeches in America stamped > him ,as a man who in the guise of an i archbishop would foment war between, : England and America — a nian whose . mission is political* in its essence. Mannix de'clared himself a Sinn Feiner and was using his high position in. the Church- -for the purposes .of, political agitation. We wanted America to understand tbat Australia was part and parcel of the British Empire,' and whose hand is against tha; Emp're is against us. We wanted* *o'- be friendly and to do business with America, realising her , • d»stiny arYl ours coincide in the Pacific. We want "her, he'p in the Pacific, and realise how*iniportant it is that the tine fer.finunil of Australia should he represented in America.'-— Press A'ssiiY ■—■»—■ —•*•_■— _■ ■——■——