A CONTRAST.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 3258, 16 August 1906, Page 2

A CONTRAST.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Not long ago the world was horrified to hear of the assassination of the late King of Servia, and the British Government, to mark their sense of this enormity, withdrew their representative from the country, and persisted in that withdrawal as long as the murderers were officially recognised. At the present day we are reading the most revolting details of the torture and death of thousands of defenceless people—men, women and children, and we have it from trustworthy sources that these massacres and other nameless horrors are being instigated by the local authorities at the express direction of the central Government. Yet so far are we from withdrawing our representative from St. Petersburg that the papers are talking of the improved relations between England and Eussia. Truly there is one law for the rich and another for the poor.—l am, etc,, A British Subject.