MAETERLINCK PROTESTS.
I s AIMS. November 30. M. Maurice Maeterlinck lias written to M. Alfred Cap us a letter exposing the entire falsity of an 'article appearing in the " Taeglic.be Rundschau " entitled "The Conversion of,M. Maeterlinck. 15 In this article it is staged that in an interview which M. Maeterlinck lir.d with a Dutch art-st ho not only declared that the Germans did not'ravage Belgium, but that they v/ere caring for her as it she were. ti precious object entrusted to their care. German organisation, M. Maeterlinck was reported as .saying, had now entered the country, and the worst thing which could happen to Belgium would be for the Germans to he driven out. There is hardly any need, s>ays 11. Maeterlinck in' liis letter to M. Capus, "to say that there is not a- single word of truth in these statements. I have never met. 4i single • Dutch artist or journalist since the beginning of the war, and when J. coeak of Germany it is always in the strongest torms oi dennneiftiicn iVij' the terrible fate which it has bif.r.'vi on nu" unha«s«v
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11596, 14 January 1916, Page 1
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