BELLICOSE PAP.'

New Zealand Tablet, 10 May 1917, Page 45

BELLICOSE PAP.'

To the Editor. My Dear Editor, —’Tis said the spirit moves the motor and the spark moves the spirit, and more power to the spark, the spirit, and the motor that carries the foitunes of the Tablet to-day! ’Tis pleasant reading to see how you deal it out to the three degrees of Ananias—liars, damn liars, and military experts. According to the latter. Puller crossed the Modder three hundred and onety-one times in twenty-four hours. So that he was dubbed the greatest navigator of Dark Africa he eclipsed Columbus and left Moses m the dark. Duller was a brave man : he failed before the impossible. The same old cock and bull stories are now rehashed till old Hindenburg is bogged for the last 6 ut one in Pripet, Haig is astride the Somme, Alec Mac is wintering in Dagdad or Jericho, and Janies Kelly, Doctor of Philosophy, Editor of the Tablet, is at his wit’s ends to ladle out bellicose pap to the juveniles.— l am, etc., J.K.L.