New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-26
Indignation at Attacks
Made by Northcliffe
ROuses City.
BERLIN GLEEFUL
OVER SITUATION
German Papers Comment Upon
Downfall of National
Military Saint"
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London, May % ne name OF III
dignation against Lord Northclife be
cause OF the attacks on Earl Kitchen
er burns stronger than ever. Charles
Clarke, chairman of the Stock Ex-
change protest meeting, is still receiv-
ing thousands of congratulatory and
approving messages daily. Lord kitch-
ener wired him to-day as follows:
please accept for yourself, and con-
vey to the members of the Stock Ex-
change, my cordial thanks for the e1-
preston Of confidence contained IN
your telegram"
Another telegram, posted on the no
tice board of the Stock Exchange to-
day, signed IAN Old Member" was
read, as follows:
"All honor to the House for its
patriotic demonstration of Friday. |
purchased this morning all available
copies at the Addison Road railway
station Of The Times and The Daily
Mail made bonfires on the platform
and posted the ashes to 'Northcliffe,
Traitors Gate. Tower"
Spencer Leigh Hughes. in THE Daily
News" to-day. suggests that Lord
Northcliffe shake off that coy and ex-
ceSsive modesty that is his only fail
ing and take his place amid his brother
peers and tackle Lord Kitchener face
to face"
Ban Northcliffe Papers.
The Manchester Stock Exchange com
mittce, at a meeting held to-day, re
solved that "in view of the disgraceful
and unpatriotic attacks on those re-
sponsible for the conduct OF the war,
no copy Of The Times or The Daily
Mail shall be allowed on the Manches-
ter Stock Exchange"
Dispatches from Rotterdam state
that the German papers are naturally
Selling with avidity news of the am
munition scarcity and the attacks OF
the Northclffe press on Lord Kitchener
At a period when, from their achieve
ments in the field Germany can create
little enthusiasm in the Fatherland, the
newspapers are more than happy TO re-
produce the attacks on Lord Kitchener
declaring that these vehement discus
slons show better than anything else
how the real situation is tending. The
most vehement portions of the TRADES
of The Daily Mail" are dished up with
great relish, while Count Reventlow
finds in them inspiration for long ar
ticle on British worries.
"They are suffering from want OF
ammunition" he gleefully writes. land
there is no longer any confidence IN
the national military saint. Lord
Kitchener. That is especially remark
able. for OF him were hoped successes
fabulous and beyond all previous ex-
perience. No other man in the world
was capable of such an epoch making
success. We shall follow his further
career with interest, whether at the
War Office or not
"They might just as well leave him
peacefully at the place where he is,
for his successor would have dim
Guilty in lettering his endeavors in the
ammunition industry. That this sore
point is talked of with such vehemence
in London and was, next 10 the sin OF
Winston Churchill, the principal cause
of the defeat Of the Cabinet shows
more than anything else the direction
in which the situation is tending. For
Germany all these things prove that
the unassailability Of England is only
a legend. one of many that show how
right have been our methods OF war
against England, and that the means
used will be more effective the longer
they are used"