WHO SHOT AT BISMARCK?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 80, 7 November 1874, Page 6

WHO SHOT AT BISMARCK?

The answer will be found in the following extract from the Dublin ' Nation ' :— THE TRUTH ABOUT KTTLLMAN. The Catholic Bishop of Salford, Dr. Vattghan (says the Dublin ' Nation '), has given the coup de grace to the vile" attempt to make the Catholics of Germany responsible for the recent alleged shooting at Bismasck. It will be remembered that as soon as Ktjlxman" was arrested, it was telegraphed all over Europe that he was a member of a

Catholic association in Salzwedel. It turns out that there is no such association at Salzwedel, and Dr. Vaughan-, on Sunday, in Bolton, publicly asserted that Kullmait'belonged in reality to a Protestant association. We shall wait with no small amount of curiosity to see how many of the New Zealand newspapers which so eagerly gave currency to the vile calumny against Catholics will publish the above. We doubt if even one will be found to take any notice of it. In this country the Press, taken generally, hastily and gladly inserts any and every calumny against Catholics, but studiously abstains from doing vi justice by publishing a contradiction, or a disproof,