REV. HOWARD ELLIOTT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 3

REV. HOWARD ELLIOTT.

STILL MAKING WILD STATEMENTS Per Press Association. ASHBURTON, Dec. 3. The Rev. Howard Elliott addressed a meeting here last night. He stated that Sir James Allen and Archbishop O’Shea had denied the truth of ", the rumour to .which he had -referred at I Dunedin, that Archbishop O’Shea had I threatened to call out Roman‘Catholics I in the Civil Service on strike, if the j priests and Marists were not exempted j from military service at the front. I The Rev. Howard Elliott did not accept the denial and challenged Sir J. 1 Allen to make public the correspond-: j ence which had passed between the Roman Catholics and the Government on the subject of the exemption of priests and Marists, together with the instructions which were passed on to the Military Service Boards witF reference to this matter. Mr. Elliot said he believed that the publication of the facts wo 'ld prove an unpleasant surprise to the people of the Dominion,