Another Cable Falsehood

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 17 January 1907, Page 9

Another Cable Falsehood

According - to Mark Twain, Ihere- are . 369 different forms of lying. The organisation at the Paris end, of the submarine cables seems •to be" tolerably fami'Aar with most of them. Our- readers can easily recall a recent message from Paris to the effect that M. Gaudin de Villaine advocated the bomb as a" weapon -for the defence <rf religicsi in, the present wax against Chrifeftianity in France. Given tyranny Ion: one side and a hot head on the other,- on*e may expect at times strange proposals ; and what is called by a poetic license ' the wild justice of revenge' is often adverted when sudden passion gives its cry before calm reason has time to think and speatt. _ The story of the v bomb-policy is, however, merely a fresh instance of the disinclination of the- cable agency in Paris and the English echoes of the French anti-reli-gious press to tell a plain, unvarnished tafe where the Catholic Chu~ch is concerned. Here is how the • Catholic Times ' of November 30 sums up the method of manufacture and the exposure of the bomb-story .