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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 17 January 1907, Page 10

'The Paris correspondent of the " Sunday Times'", who is distinguished for his accuracy and constant impartiality—qualities totally lacking in mos,t of his con- ; freres— has been able r to expose signally 'the manner in which the " Times " and other papers manufacture antiOatholic news. On Wednesday of last week- a number __ of British journals reported that M. - Gaudin de "Villaine had expressed regret ihat the French Catholics did not employ the methods of the. Russian terrorists,and the "Times" was -horror-struck that he should have advocated the "use of the bomb in defence of religion. M. de Villaine, who is a French Deputy, did nothing of the sort. All he said, according to the " Sunday Times'" correspondent, translating from the "Jour- , nal Officiel ", " was that ' the Radical and Socialist^ majority vaunted to the skies Russian terrorists whoused the latest developments of chemistry to further their propaganda, whilst French Catholics, who could put an end to the persecution directed against them very quickly- if they had but a part of the energy displayed by the Russian revolutionaries, were resigned and submitted to their oppressors." Taking this simple truism, the " Thunderer " which has ceased to thunder to any effect — promptly twisted it into a bloodthirsty declaration of literal war on the Republic. It seems impossible for the English press to printr the whole truth about French affairs ; and we are surely not exaggerating when we- say, that it is absolutely patent to all that there is, with one or two exceptions, a conspiracy of silence amongst.- the .Paris correspondents of the London papers with regard to the antiCatholic tactics of- the French Government.' .. * The fact that a story originates in Mexico, and is written by a missionary, seems now generally accepted by the American press as an a priori presumption of its falsehood. Experience shows, that" a similar principle may with a pretty safe conscience be applied to. cable 1 messages regarding the Catholic Church, that have their origin in Paris.