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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 566, 2 December 1915, Page 6

On page seven of this issue we reproduce the notorious "Road to India" map published by the "Daily Mail" on October 11, and condemned so roundly by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons yesterday. The map speaks for itself. It is a flagrant attempt on the part of an unscrupulous and selfish newspaper magnate to discredit arid belittle the work of the Imperial authorities —an unpatriotic policy which has been impudently and persistently enunciated by the "Mail" and the steadily degenerating London "Times." These attacks on tlie British Cabinet and on individual Ministers have undoubtedly damaged our prestige in the Balkans, while they must have induced unfeigned delight in our active enemies. The map incident gave Germany a splendid opportunity of impressing .important neutrals and, at the same time, it enabled her to use the | 7 map as a further proof (and from the mouth of one of the leading English journals!) of Britain's ti'epidution concerning a probable German advance against Suez and towards India. What the "Labour Leader" and the "Globe" did the "Daily Mail" has easily outdone, but so far the authpritics have not applied to the "Mail" the drastic remedy suffered by its contemporaries. However,. Sir John Siinon has made it sufficiently clear that the Government's patience is not inexhaustible, and if the "Mail" docs not restrain its peculiar prejudices, it is likely to have its doors closed and officially scaled. '' Ever since it; began the campaign for conscription the Northeiiffe Press has grossly abused the privilege of free speech. Lord Northeiiffe has deliberately set his opinions against those of the Prime Minister and the majority of his colleagues. Whenever the opportunity presented itself, this would-be dictator's newspapers have used the failure of British arms as a means to a political end, and at times have gone the length of slurring or minimising British successes. The map on page seven is a splendid example of the Northeiiffe methods. Its purport will be obvious to ther ipiost careless student of politics or of tlie-waiv