ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 16 May 1918, Page 13

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

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E.0.-We think it is a matter for the Federation. Surely there must be some legal redress if the government of New Zealand is not a farce. Besides the fictitious oaths circulated by the P.P.A. the Free Press has stated that the danger of conscripting Catholics is that they might shoot their comrades. If a government by its inaction encourages that sort of thing can it expect Catholics to support it? We believe that vigorous action on the part of the Federation would move the authorities to bring the liars to their senses. “Sport” (Winchester). —We published the figures in the issue of May 2. Catholics, notwithstanding all the insults of the No-Popery gang, sent voluntarily 6.2 per cent, of their number, while the Elliottites sent 4.4 per cent. In Australia the Catholic percentage of the volunteers is 18. In America it is 40. Do you ever hear returned soldiers speak of the Elliottite chaplains as they speak of Fathers Dore and MacMenamin ? And if not, why not ? . It was not for distributing cigarettes in Egypt that these men were decorated. Nor was it the Catholics who were too tired to

save Colonel Malone. People who call Catholics shirkers have short memories—a bad quality in liars..