STRAIGHT TALK.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 26 July 1920, Page 3

STRAIGHT TALK.

MR HUGHES ON DISLOYALTY.

(Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This day. Mr Hughes, in a speech at Bendigo, aid: ‘ ‘ When we put a man aboard a hip by virtue of the law the steamhip companies and wharf laborers md seamen shall obey the law. If lot we shall see. Neither will he illowed to defy the law of the land.” Denouncing disloyalists he declared le would smite them hip and thigh.

Referring to Archbishop Mannix Mr Hughes said he wanted American people to know that Archbishop Mannix did not represent Australia. If he said his utterances were supported by the people of Australia he said what was not true. He added: “Archbishop Mannix’s speeches in America stamped him as a man who went in the guise of an Archbishop to foment war between England and America, a man whose mission is political in essence. Archbishop Mannix was a declared Sinn Feiner, and w*as using his high position in the Church for the purposes of political agitation. We want America to understand Australia is part and parcel of the British Empire, and whose hand is against the Empire is against ns. We want to be friendly and do business with America, realising that her destiny and oars coincide in the Pacific. We want her help in the Pacific, and realise how important it is that the true sentiment of Australia should be represented in America.” —(A. & N.Z.)