CARICATURED THE KING
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST IX TROUBLE. LOXDOX, December -0. Air Will Dyson, the V.ell-known Australian caricaturist, is in grave danger of beinK accused of lese ma.jesto. The Unionist newspapers in England declare ttiat lie nns grossly insulted King George, and are screaming with rage at ills "disloyalty." Following upon the case of Driver Knox, whose dismissal from the Groat Eastern Railway Company on a charge of drunkenness led to a strike, a cartoon j appeared in the new Labour daily, Hie Labour Herald, drawn by Will • Dyson. Tiie cartoon depicts the King expressing astonishment at tiie news, as disclosed in the Knox case, that any of his ! subjects drink anything so common as | rum. { it was stated In evidence before Mr j Chester Jones, the magistrate who reheard the charge against .the engine-dri-ver, that Knox had taken two tots of rum while off duty, hut was not intoxicated while driving his engine, and never had boon the worse for liquor while doing liis work. The man was reinstated, and tin- strike ended. In the picture drawn by Will Dyson tiie King is supposed to lie saving; "I never came across any shortage of rum." It is tills connection of Royally with rum that has raised the ire of the Unionist journals, and leading artieies have been devoted to a condemnation of Hie Labour paper, tiie artist, anti the idea.
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Southland Times, Issue 17230, 28 December 1912, Page 6
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230CARICATURED THE KING Southland Times, Issue 17230, 28 December 1912, Page 6
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