Show TIMES STARTS STORr London Thunderer Prints Remarkable Story ITS WISDOM QUESTIONED Deals With the AntiBritish Cartoons i Which Have Appeared in tho German Ger-man Kcwspapeis These the Times Sya tlIn Coarseness Obscenity and Venom Are Without a Parallel in Modern Times London Star Takes the Times to Task for I Taking Up the Matter London Jan 13A remarkable article ar-ticle appears In todays Times under the caption Literature of German Anglophobia recounting the character charac-ter of the antiBritish cartoons which have appeared In the German newspapers newspa-pers which the Times says In coarseness coarse-ness obscenity and venom arc without 3 parallel in modern times The wisdom of the publication of the article at this juncture 13 much questioned f ques-tioned The Star says OPINION OF THE STAR The Times today of all days begins a series of articles on the offensive German caricatures Every newspaper has long been awn re of these caricatures carica-tures but the responsible Journals have f not advertised these Insults simply because cause no good could be done by petting pet-ting the British and Gorman peoples by tie ear The Times ought to hesitate hes-itate before It deliberately flogs the passion of the people Are our publicists pub-licists dad Cannot they sec the r abyss toward which they arc hounding f this longsuffering nation WHAT THE TIMES SAYS The Times article which Id 1 two col umno long says These papers arc r not gutter sheets but are sold everywhere every-where at the stations of the state railroads rail-roads even at Potsdam station where the Emperor If constantly traveling He v as Ilnully obliged to personally order their removal Never are these t F papers anonymous Onef the most Infamous oL all cntltlcSjTht Boer War bears on the I title plages the names of persons distinguished dis-tinguished in tit literary nnd artistic world of Germany From a purely technical standpoint the paper is 1 an cm production but it Is dilllcult to find words to convey a notion of the lllth which its cultured artists and riters venture to lay before UK cultured 1 cul-tured German icadors British soldIers arc represented as robbing tho dead Mr Chamberlains fla k coach Is depicted as n cart laden la-den with skeletons and Klnjr Edward is shown dead drunk in his bedroom receiving the news of Cronies surrender surren-der CROWNING PIECE OF ALL But the crowning piece Is I a cartoon car-toon entitled Hpro Worship The then Princess of Wales with Queen Victoria Vic-toria tho Pilnefc of Wales and tho young Princess and by her oldo Is decorating dec-orating a youthful soldier The lecend undorncuth read TcxtuiUly An English En-glish Prlncess decorating the youngest E Holdier In the British army with the Victoria cross because although only m he has already outraged eight Boer omen This obscenity old In iccpectublc Bhops was eugorly bought by the public pub-lic and lie on fashionable drawing room tables |