“TO PREACH MURDER.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 7

“TO PREACH MURDER.”

BEN TIf.LETT'S ANGER. “I am going to get a little sleep,” said Ben Tillett, “and then I *in going | to hurry back to London to preach murder.” j Rather less than a fortnight ago ] Ben Tillett, with permits in his pocket j (writes the Paris correspondent of the ! “Daily Express”), came over to France to see things for himself, lie went to Rheims, he went to the Argonne, lie came back to Paris. A week later no went out to British Headquarters, and lie lias spent a week there, and -with the French troops, where the allied lines touch. Ho said to me: “I have learnt my lesson from m3' visit to Franco. I have learnt that ; there is another meaning to the word ; ‘strike’ now. By we’ve got to ! strike now, and every ounce of British grit, of British energy, of British gold, j of British brain has got to be behind j the blow. ; “Mind you, I've been friendly with Germans' for thirty years, and I never | icallv know them. They were too cunning for me. 1 know them now. They will stick at nothing. They ' don't understand common decency or j ordinary manhood, ami if we’ve got to j live_ in the future we must teach them their lesson. “We must break them up. W'e must have the nation behind us to do it.. “There is only one word for it— • patriotism. We must wipe them out or die. I know what they've done to women and children. I’ve seen what 1 they’ve done to the homes. 1 shivered ! at the wrecked cathedrals, but I choked and swore at the wrecked kitchens , and the pathos of the broken toys and ruin of litt-lo lives.”