AN EDITOR’S DILEMMA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 25 September 1915, Page 2

AN EDITOR’S DILEMMA.

Recently :v Paris (vewspapor man, the (alitor of a wail-known daily paper, was imprudent enough a road his foreign papers in a tramcar. jOf

course, no newspaper dealer would dare to offer Gorman newspapers for sale on their booths; but. as a matter of fact, German newspapers do reach the French newspaper offices, where they are read with care. However, ‘' re venous a ns moutons. ’’ The editor in question was quietly reading the Berliner Tageblatt, when lie noticed that there was a commotion in the- car, and people about him began t-» protest. The inmates of the car considered it an insult to place a German newspaper under the eyes of the passengers of a Parisian tram ear. Our editor tried vainly to explain. He expostulated. Nothing, however, had the slightest effect on the excited Parisians., and in 1 few seconds the whole car was in an uproar. Fists were shaken in-his face, sticks also. He was called a “dirty spy” and a “Boche,” and the poor fellow wished sincerely he was out of it. Then he had a happy thought. From his- pile of papers ho fished out a copy of a well-known English newspaper, and brandished it in the faces of his infuriated fellow-travellers. That had a soothing effect. Surely, argued the mob, anybody who could read a British paper must indeed bo a patriot, and so the incident was closed.