WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1918, Page 6

WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST.

"SHAMELESS COWARDS." To the Editor. Sir,—"Mr. 11. E. Holland, M.P., declared that he was prepared personally to accept the name Bolshevik. (Applause.)"— Daily paperIt must have been the fled Flag seream from this Bolshevik that upset H. A. Hunt's equilibrium and, in his harry, to sob out his troubles on "the broad bosom of the press," he mixed up (like the pinafore matron) the Egmont County Council with another body, and as sue!' references as he made to this council are only impudent. insinuations by a nonratepayer, I pass them overWhen I read this Bolshev'k yell of Holland's and also Guard Williams' total denial of :harges, 1 said: "Theso wretches are jumping on a Britisher," and the commissioner, having described these C-O.'s as "shameless cowards," being a Britisher, I did my bit by putting through the resolution of congratulation to the Defence Minister, and for which I accept full responsibility. If the 15,000 of the colony's -best and bravest (now reported dead)) had been "shameless cowards," H. A. Hunt, Holland, Semple, and Co. would for dome time past be having their heads humped by the Germans, while their women-foil; would be . I need not 1111 in disgusting details. I put the matter into plain English in the following telegram to the Defence Minister:—"Thanks for wire treatment of shameless cowards,

avowed Bolsheviks to jump on British'* ers?' Commissioner Hewitt's adoption of the non-access system of dealing with witnesses render his report valuelea."—' I am, etc., W. R. WRIGHT, Chairman County of Egmont Recruiting Board.