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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 37, 15 May 1917, Page 8

Hilda Thompson, in the ‘‘ Clarion/' the organ of the British Socialists, makes scathing comments on the “Maoriland Worker.” She had been sent the Christmas issue, <and in her opinion the New Zealand Socialist paper is a “peace-at-any-pricer.” "I read the paper in the train, interested because it came from a country I had learned to loye. But interest changed to wonder, to amazement, and to anger. Hot, fierce anger, if you please, my friend unknown. Mentally I dainned the paper, its contents, and the writers of those articles. Even was I tempted to damn the Government of New Zealand for permitting the issue and circulation of such opinions at such a time as the present. . . . We are to repudiate the sacrifices our boys have made of their very lives, mock at the sufferings of our women, forswear our beliefs and make terms ‘at all costs'with the nation of blood and iron. Is this seriously what we are asked s to do by the pacifists? Is it what the writers in the ‘Maoriland Worker' wish to see accomplished? The thing they are striving for in New Zealand? . . . Yet my answer is the same. I believe, too, that whoever tries to hinder the progress of the war at this juncture, to prevent the sending of reinforcements and munitions, is a traitor. Traitor not alone to his country and birthright, but to the brave boys who have faced, and are facing, a hell worse than any threatened to unbelievers by the Christians of old. This is my answer. And never again do I wish to set eyes on the ‘Maoriland Worker,’ please. It angers and disgusts me.”